error on nav

[ecabrera]

why do i get a error

 

on

 

<li><a href='#nogo'>$cat['parent']</a></li>

 

echo "
    <div id='navigation'>
<ul id='nav'>
<!-- main item 1 -->
<li class='item1'>
<a href='".strtolower(str_replace(' ', '-', $cat['title'])).".htm'>".str_replace('and', '&', $cat['title'])."</a>
<!-- dropdown or flyout 1 -->

<ul>
<li><a href='#nogo'>$cat['parent']</a></li>
</ul>

</li>
</ul>
</div>
    
    ";

[xyph]

You need to surround associative array calls in curly braces, when using the double-quote string syntax.

 

echo "This is {$array['how']} you do it";

 

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.parsing

[ecabrera]

thanks ok so i want the nav to be like

 

Tech -> Video Games

        -> Computers

      - > Mouses

 

but only some categories have subcategories i want to do an if statement how would i get around that

 

for example

 

if($cat['parent'] > 0){

<ul>

<li><a href='#nogo'>$cat['subparent']</a></li>

</ul>

}else

{

 

}

[ecabrera]

ok so how would i do this

 

some categories have subcategory not all of them so i want to make it so that the ones that have subcategory show and the ones that dont dont show

 

the categored are listed by id's for now

 

for example

 

40

34

23

13

53

23

54

34

23

 

the subcategory have a field name parent which has their parents id

 

for example

 

their are three 40's they should be with category 40

 

<?php 

    

    	$sql = "SELECT * FROM ".$sitevar['db']['prefix']."categories WHERE parent = 0 ORDER BY title ASC";

    	$cats = mysql_fetch_all(qrydb($sql));

    	$newsql = "SELECT * FROM ".$sitevar['db']['prefix']."categories WHERE parent > 0 ORDER BY title ASC";

    	$subcats = mysql_fetch_all(qrydb($newsql));


    	foreach ($cats as $cat) 
    	foreach ($subcats as $subcat) 

   
    echo "
    <div id='navigation'>
<ul id='nav'>
<!-- main item 1 -->
<li class='item1'>
<a href='".strtolower(str_replace(' ', '-', $cat['title'])).".htm'>".str_replace('and', '&', $cat['id'])."</a>
<!-- dropdown or flyout 1 -->

<ul>
<li><a href='#nogo'>{$subcat['title']}</a></li>
</ul>

</li>
</ul>
</div>
    
    ";

    ?>

[ecabrera]

is there a way i can add a if statement if the echo

[Jessica]

No, you have to end the echo.

You can do a ternary operation but you should probably stick with ending the echo.