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[JustinSmall]

With 8+ years in web development, it's hard to believe I don't know everything

Anyways, I have it setup

header
index
footer


of course the index includes the header and footer, but I want to make the links have a predetermined styled for each page.

With the header, it's kind of confusing me, because with the navigation built into the index page instead of the header I could just do 'class="selected"' but I can't now bc it's included...

how could I do this without putting the navigation into the index file itself

[Xeentech]

Is the markup generated? PHP say?

If so, you could detect the REQUEST_URI Environment variable in your header script. That should be available everywhere.

[JustinSmall]

Are you referring to do an if statement regarding whether the page is what the link wants it to be???

example

PHP Code:

function link_home() {
    if ($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] == '/index.php') {
    print("<a href='index.php' class='selected'>Home</a>");
    } else {
    print("<a href='index.php'>Home</a>");
    }
} 


[Xeentech]

That's what I was thinking, did I misunderstand what you were after?

You could also set some variable (globally) before you include the header, depending on your server side language.

[JustinSmall]

I could do this, seems like a lot of code though lol

[ThatScriptGuy]

How is it a lot of code? Instead of

PHP Code:

include 'header.php'; 


you have

PHP Code:

$page='Home';
include 'header.php'; 


or if you're using smarty

PHP Code:

{include file="header.tpl" page="Home"} 


[JustinSmall]

I'm not using Smarty ATM.

I've figured it out, thanks though.