Creating a class="current" for navigation on dynamic plugin pages

Hi

I am having diffculty understanding how I would get an image/css navigation to work with dynamic plugin pages.

When using static pages it is really easy you just have to give the menu/navigation item a class style e.g. class="current". I have no idea how I would acheive this using dynamic plugin.

At present

1. I have built my dwt template and created static plugins for my header, sidebar and footer.
2. I then converted the dwt template to a Framework theme.
3. I creted a new php page called management.php and used the dwt template i created
4. I ran data-assist wizard to create my plugin page content.
5. on management.php I ran the dynamic plugin wizard and defined all my dataassist pages.

When I test everything works fine the problem is I dont know how I can make the class="current" dynamic on my main navigation.

I hope this makes sense.

Any help would be much appreciated

on management.php, what variable are you using for the dynamic plugins?


You would use that same variable in the menu to dynamicly set the class=current on the correct menu item.


for example, if i set the dynamic plugins to use a query string variable named "action":

management.php?action=results - loads results.php
management.php?action=search - loads search.php
management.php?action=update - loads update.php
etc...

you would add an if statement to the menu code to dynamically set the class:

<li><a href="management.php? action=results"<?php if(isset($_GET['action']) && $_GET['action'] == "results") echo(" class=current"); ?>>results</a></li>
<li><a href="management.php? action=search"<?php if(isset($_GET['action']) && $_GET['action'] == "search") echo(" class=current"); ?>>search</a></li>
<li><a href="management.php? action=update"<?php if(isset($_GET['action']) && $_GET['action'] == "update") echo(" class=current"); ?>>update</a></li>

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Hi Jason,

Thanks so much, I think this is what I need.
The only thing is that my class style is on the <li> tag and not on the <a> tag. The second problem I am facing is that my <li> tag has 2 class styles attached to it e.g

  <li class="home current"><a href="management.php"></li>  

Would you be able to tell me how to write the if statement to dynamically set the class to the <li> tag instead. Also would you also be able to show me how the if statement would look with the variable and without the variable e.g

  <li class="home current"><a href="management.php"></li>
<li class="services"><a href="management.php?action=search"></li>  

The reason I need to know how to declare both is because framework builder already allows you to set a default plugin to load so I would not need to have the variable in the url when creating my main navigation, only when creating my sidebar navigation.

Many thanks in advance

here you go.

<li class="home<?php if(!isset($_GET['action'])) echo(" current"); ?>"><a href="management.php"></li>
<li class="services<?php if(isset($_GET['action']) && $_GET['action'] == "search") echo(" current"); ?>"><a href="management.php? action=search"></li>

Hi Jason

I have been trying to get this to work but I am running into problems. The reason is the 'if statement' looks the same across my main navigation i.e

  <li class="home<?php if(!isset($_GET['action'])) echo(" current"); ?>"><a href="management.php"></li>

<li class="services<?php if(!isset($_GET['action'])) echo(" current"); ?>"><a href="services.php"></li>

<li class="media<?php if(!isset($_GET['action'])) echo(" current"); ?>"><a href="media.php"></li>  

Because all 3 <li> meet the 'if statement' criteria they all display the "current" class.

The only way I can think to work around this is to create variables for these main pages e.g

management.php?action=dashboard
services.php?action=services
media.php?action=media

The problem I would have with this is that these pages are the *default* pages defined in the dynamic plugin behaviour. In the dynamic plugin dialog box you are not allowed the give a page a paremeter name and set it to default at the same time. So I am not sure how I would make these pages defualt and give them a paremeter name at the same time.

The second issue that I am having is that my main navigation and sidebar links are seperate plugins so say for example if I click "services" link on my main navigation i am taken to my *default* plugin page and my "services" link gets the class of current. However if I click on one of my siderbar links for services e.g

<a href="services.php?action=SearchServices">Search Services</a>

I lose the current class on my main navigation. Is there a way to define the 'if statement' so the class current is constant on any page defined as services.php?action=...

Your help is very much appreciated

for that you need to use the $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] variable instead of the $_GET.

$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] will return the name of the page script:
/services.php

or:
/management.php

<li class="home<?php if(in_array("management.php", explode("/",$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']))) echo(" current"); ?>"><a href="management.php"></li>



<li class="services<?php if(in_array("services.php", explode("/",$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']))) echo(" current"); ?>"><a href="services.php"></li>

Thanks ever so much Jason,

That solved both of the problems in one go.

God Bless

you're welcome