Re: navigation include not functioning

I'm having trouble understanding your description of the problem. Can you tell us what you're seeing and what you expect to see? Jerry Wilborn jerrywilborn@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Allen McCabe <allenmccabe@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to generate pages by importing content in includes, and using > my > navigation include to tell PHP to replace a $thisPage variable which all > the > includes use <?php include('phpincludes/' . $thisPage . '.php') ?> > > The idea behind it (I know tons of people do it, but I'm new to this > concept), is to have a 'layout' page where only a variable changes using > $_GET on an href (index.php?page=services or index.php?page=about) to load > the new 'pages'. > > PROBLEM: > All my links are displaying the current page state, and links are not > building around the link text (hrefs are built conditionally with if > $thisPage != services then build the link, otherwise leave it as normal > text). Same thing with the background image behind the link text (to > indicate a page's current position). If the condition is not true, all the > links (except the true current 'page') are supposed reload index.php and > pass a variable to itself to place into $thisPage using > href="index.php?page=" (after which I have a variable which stores "about" > or "services" within the if statement near the link text. > > If this sounds like something you are familiar with (former issues and > whatnot) please let me know what I'm doing wrong. I would be happy to give > you any code you want to look at (index.php or navigation.php, whatever). > > Thanks again for your help PHP gurus! >