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Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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How do you get it so nav links will be highlighted when your viewing the page it's linked to. Just like the way it works on vanilla forums up top.
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  • BenBen
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    You assign an extra class to the link that relates to that page. With the vanilla tabs, all the links have class="TabOff" except the active one, which is defined by class="TabOn" this means that, that specific tab can be given extra styling.
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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    I suppose I won't be able to do that if I'm calling information into an index page with a php command?
  • BenBen
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    like... index.php?page=blahdeblah type thing?

    You'd just need to set up a little If statement for each tab, like If the page equals 'news' then echo TabOn otherwise echo TabOff
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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    well, I suppose I can show you the site and you can help determine the best route? If it's not too much hassle, that is. http://onemanshortproductions.com
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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    bump?
  • timberfordtimberford
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    you could set a body id on your pages if you want to do a pure css version. then in the css when the body id is present it will apply a different style e.g. <body id="home"> <a href="/" id="homeNav">home</a> then in the css put: #home #homeNav{ font-weight:bold; }
  • 3stripe3stripe
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    with regards to doing this with php, i'm not a programmer so turned to the wordpress coddex for a good tutorial on this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Dynamic_Menu_Highlighting
  • BenBen
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    at timberford: doh, I should have thought of that one. So much easier than the PHP method!
  • timberfordtimberford
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    glad to help. it's a handy technique, i use it all the time.
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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    trouble with that is my php code just calls a page into the body... there is no seperate bodies... <body> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="banner"></div> <div id="nav"> <ul> <li><a href="?news" title="Home">Home</a></li> <li><a href="?aboutus" title="About Us">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="?currentprojects" title="Current Projects">Current Projects</a></li> <li><a href="?media"title ="Media">Media</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="content"> <?php $query = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; $query = explode(':',$query); if(empty($query[0]) && empty($query[1])) { include 'news.php'; } elseif(empty($query[1])) { include $query[0].'.php'; } else { include $query[0].'/'.$query[1].'.php'; } ?> </div>
  • timberfordtimberford
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    so you're saying you use a single template for all your pages, regardless of their content?
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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    yes
  • timberfordtimberford
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    in that case you could use a statement that detects which page it is and inserts an id into the body and still use the css method i mentioned.
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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    I'm total novice to php... how would I go about this?
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
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    well, on the basis that your pages are defined in a ?page=whatever statement, for your css if you use a body tag such as: <body id="<?php echo $_GET['page']; ?>"> Which should work. I think.
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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    That doesn't work... It produces a blank id statement... I also tried useing echo $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; which didn't work... I'm not even sure what that would so anyway, lol... I posted the actual coding I use above... so if that can help you at all. Thanks for being helpful. my pages arent ?page=whatever they are ?whatever
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
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    um? I'm not sure that'l work. Though i'm probably wrong. As far as i know it needs to be ?variablename=variablecontent
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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    It does work.... http://onemanshortproductions.com is a working example of it. http://onemanshortproductions.com/?news http://onemanshortproductions.com/?opportunities etc... Or are you saying you don't know how to get it to echo the page when it's in that form?
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
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    Isnt that your site? How do you get it to work out what page to load up then?
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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    I have an index page that is designed the way I want... in the body tag I insert the php command I posted 10 posts up... I have individual php files that it calls into the body of the index page. When I click on say Opportunities link the href="?opportunities" it then calls opportunities.php into the body.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
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    Yeah. That'l teach me to half read discussions :) In that case, assuming its in the same file, you can use: Unless its in a different file or above where query is set, in which case you can use: <?php $query = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; $query = explode(':',$query); ?> <body id="<?php echo $query[0]; ?>"> And then remove the definition of query lower down.
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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    Didn't work... I tried $query[1] as well, didn't work. I tried $query... and that made it body id="Array"... which is wrong too...
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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    Don't mean to be a pest, but does anyone got any ideas?
  • KrakKrak
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    Was bored so I fiddled for a little bit with this. This is what I got http://hatethis.org/temp/tabs.txt Its nothing fancy, but it worked with the way you are calling pages.
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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    Thank you kindly, that worked....
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
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    sorry Mr F. i read this with the intention of replying then had to shoot out to work and forgot about it. We really need that 'mark as unread' thing goin on.
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
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    It's ok. Thanks for your help. You guys are awesome.
  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit
    Posts: 207
    I must be a right prick, but... Is there a way I can have Home to be TabOn when you first enter the page... the page loads as http://onemanshortproductions.com but it's the same as http://onemanshortproductions.com/?news I tried adding or "index.php" to the php statement for home but that keeps it on forever. I want it Home to be tabbed on when there is no ? and when it's on ?news. If this is not possible, just let me know
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
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    Just a guess, but give this a go...change: if($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] == 'news') to: if($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] == 'news' || !$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])
  • KrakKrak
    Posts: 926
    Yup, just tested that mini, worked for me.
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