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Asked: 2026-05-16T18:52:37+00:00

I am just starting PHP (as in today). I want to create a customizable

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I am just starting PHP (as in today).
I want to create a customizable menu using a jquery script that can have a variable amount of items.

I am getting an error when i run this.
The error is:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/s0urc3/public_html/files01/menu.php on line 5

Thanks to Chase for his answer

index.php:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<head>
<?PHP
$script_url="http://files01.s0urc3.ismywebsite.com/jquery/nagging-menu/nagging-menu.js";
$menu_css="http://files01.s0urc3.ismywebsite.com/jquery/nagging-menu/style.css";
$links = array(
    array("url" => "http://www.something1.com", "label" => "something"),
    array("url" => "http://www.something2.com", "label" => "something2"),
    array("url" => "http://www.something3.com", "label" => "something3"),
);
include("menu.php");
?>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<title></title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href=".css"/>
</head>
<body>
<?=writeMenu($links, $menu_css, $script_url)?>
</body>
</html>

menu.php:

<?
function writeMenu($links, $script_url, $menu_css){
$menu = '<link href=\"$menu_css\" type=\"text/css\">'
    $menu = '<div id="navi">';
    $menu .= '<div id="menu" class="default">';
    $menu .= '<ul>';

    foreach ($links as $item) {
        $menu .= "<li><a href=\"".$item['url']."\">".$item['label']."</a></li>";
    }

    $menu .= "</ul>";
    $menu .= "</div>";
    $menu .= "<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>";
    $menu .= "<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=$script_url charset=\"utf-8\"></script>";

    return $menu;
}
?>

Thanks to Chase for his Re-script

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok so i looked over the code so generously supplied by chase an solved my own issue. 😀

    here is the code of both menu.php and index.php

    Menu.php:

    <!--
PHP menu by ellisgeek
$email = 'ellisgeek@gmail.com';
$URL = 'http://s0urc3.ismywebsite.com'
Original code by chase on StackOverflow.com
-->
<?
function writeMenu($links, $css){
echo  '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="$css" media="screen"/>';
echo  '<div id="navi"><div id="menu" class="fixed"><ul class=""> ';


foreach ($links as $item) {
    echo "<li><a href=".$item['url'].">".$item['label']."</a></li>";
}

echo  "</ul>";
echo  "</div>";
echo  "</div>";
}
?>

    Index.php:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<head>
<?
$css="style.css";
$links = array(
    array("url" => "http://www.something1.com", "label" => "something"),
    array("url" => "http://www.something2.com", "label" => "something2"),
    array("url" => "http://www.something3.com", "label" => "something3"),
);
include("menu.php");
?>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<title></title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href=".css"/>
</head>
<body>
<?=writeMenu($links, $menu_css, $script_url)?>
<p>Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum Lorum</p>
<!--Add lotsa these-->
</body>
</html>

    this will write a menu using a ul and a few div’s feel free to copy n paste just don’t remove the credit comment please.

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