Hi again,

 

I have yet another problem....

 

My nav shows the currently selected file, i usually set this by <body id="services"> and changing the body id for each page then i change the colour of the nav when selected using css...singe the body tag is in a common file now which i am drawing into each file, and the nav is also in a common file, is there another way i can make the nav show the current page?

 

As i have said in previous posts, I have changed hosts, my old host customised all this stuff so it was very different, so everything is different....a bit of a pain really but at least i am learning the "right way" now.

 

 

 

Thanks a lot for all your help, it has been so great!!

anyone have an idea of how i can do this? tell the nav which page i am on when the main parts of each page are being drawn from a single file?

You can use a php switch statement to insert the id="" part into your navigation somewhere.

 

There is a global variable $_PHP_SELF which will be equal to the URL to the current page.

thanks for the reply, im new to all this so although i kind of get what your on about, would you be able to make it any clearer for a complete beginner?

There is a global variable $_PHP_SELF which will be equal to the URL to the current page.

 

Isn't that manipulatablebleble though?

 

http://www.calmbanana.co.uk/writing/custom-keywords/ That tutorial might be worth adapting to your needs... Instead of having <meta <?php ?>> etc, you would have... <body id="<?php echo $bodyid ?>">

thank you so much

 

I figured it out!! yay its working

 

When I am drawing the header in on each page the includes says:

<?

php $bodyid="pagenamehere";

include("header.php");

?>

 

and then when I am setting the body id in the common header file it says:

<body id="<?php echo$bodyid; ?>">

 

And it works a treat!!! so exciting when something works!!

 

Thanks heaps!!