Question

I am currently designing a vertical drop menu (with submenus), here’s how it looks:

Click here to see the screenshot

On the left, no menu item is selected.
On the middle and on the right there are sub-menus opened (and the selected page in blue).
One sub-menu can be opened at once (one opens => the other closes).
The contents of the menu is not dynamic.

The big problem was that when i opened a new page, the sub-menu of the selected page had to be opened.

So I decided that all my pages links will be like index.php?p=my_selected_page and in a file menu.php I built this array:

$menu = array(
    'Présentation' => array(
        'accueil' => 'Accueil',
        'inscription' => 'Inscrivez-vous'
    ),
    'Nos actions' => array(
        'mediation-familiale' => 'Médiation familiale',
        'droit-de-visite' => 'Droit de visite accompagnée',
        'accompagnement-familial' => 'Accompagnement familial'
    )
    // [...]
);

Then I get the page $_GET ['p']. I look through the array and writes the menu html match.
If $_GET['p'] is one of the key sub-array, I display the sub-menu with a CSS class so that this menu is open.
(And the link is selected by default).

While this solution works, this system only allows me to store links like index.php?p=my_selected_page.

I wish I could put other links, like forum.php (and include menu.php in forum.php), etc..

If you have any ideas to make this possible, I would be grateful.

(I am French. Sorry for spelling mistakes.)

Answer 1

You could use $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] to ask for the name of your script file, and then do the verification with that information, not sending a variable via GET. 🙂

e.g.

<?php

$script_file = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"];
$no_slashes = explode('/', $script_file);
$script_file = $no_slashes[count($no_slashes) - 1]; 

echo $script_file;

?>

At this point, you will have the filename stored in $script_file, and you could match it with your array’s keys.

Hope this helps.