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Stuart · #21 Nov 3rd, 2007, 17:41

The css you posted above should work. Just apply the .selected class to the current page link.

mcdanielnc89 · #22 Nov 4th, 2007, 00:12

Marc, I've dont thaT BUT have been getting this error...

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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/nbjf/public_html/aboutus.php on line

Here's the html for the page.

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<?php // tell the php what page it is! $page = "aboutus"; ?> <div style="text-align:left"> <div id="centeredimage"> <img class="image1" src="images/aboutus.png" alt="About us"> </div> <p class="style2"> New Breed Jesus Freaks is a G-Rated Community for sharing the word of the Lord and bringing people of all ages closer to God! We are very friendly and compassionate and if there are members that get out of hand we shall deal with them. We Pray you will consider joining our ministry here at NBJF and support us. Take your shoes off at the door, relax and have a great time with us. This group is for all ages. The group name doesn't mean we're bunch of freaks from the street or anything. It simply means that we are Christians who are on fire for God and love him with all of our hearts. </p><br> <p class="style2"> We have a lot of forum topics to keep you busy! Feel free to read the messages and post some of your own if you'd like. We have a great time here, so come fellowship with us. The chat room is open 24/7 as well as scheduled chats every night at 7:15 p.m. central standard time.(CST) We would love to have you here at our site. So come join in on the fun. Make sure you have a valid email address too. </p><br> <h1 style="text-align: center"> All are Welcome! </h1><br> <p class="style2"> Please be sure to read our rules before you join. If you have already joined; go ahead and read them. </p><br> <p class="style2"> If you have anymore questions, concerns or anything, please use the contact page and let us know. We will be gladly to assist in answering any questions you have. </p> </div>

Stuart · #23 Nov 4th, 2007, 00:28

Did you define $page = "name"; for each page? "aboutus" only applies to one of them, your About Us page.

mcdanielnc89 · #24 Nov 4th, 2007, 00:33

no for I was testing out to see if it worked on one of the pages first and it don't.

Stuart · #25 Nov 4th, 2007, 00:52

Ah, ok. To tell you the truth, I think you'd be better off making actual pages instead of generating content with php. So instead of what you have now, use this:

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      <ul id="menu">
   <div class="selected"><li><a href="index.php" class="current">Home</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="aboutus.php" class="current">About Us</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="signin.php">Monthly Sign-in</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="statementoffaith.php">Statement of Faith</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="http://www.forums.newbreedjesusfreaks.com">Forums</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="rules.php">Rules</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="http://www.chat.newbreedjesusfreaks.com">Chatroom</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="downloads.php">Downloads</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="requests.php">Requests</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="tencommandments.php">Ten Commandments</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="#">Pictures</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="staff.php">Staff</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="memberofthemonth.php">Member of the Month</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="puritypledge.php">Purity Pledge</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="links.php">Links</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="search.php">Search</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="donate.php">Support Us</a></li></div>
   <div class="notselected"><li><a href="contactus.php">Contact Us</a></li></div>
      </ul>

Of course you then need to actually make those pages. Then, using the css .selected class will be a lot easier.

Cheers,
SWagner

mcdanielnc89 · #26 Nov 4th, 2007, 00:58

That's the problem. i don't want to do that. I got tired of updating piece by piece....

Stuart · #27 Nov 4th, 2007, 00:59

So how do you update now? If this is not what you want, you could use frames for the main content. Then, the navigation and header stay the same.

mcdanielnc89 · #28 Nov 4th, 2007, 01:01

When updating links all I have to do is open up the index.php file instead of having to update page by page.

Stuart · #29 Nov 4th, 2007, 01:31

I see. I still suggest frames... They give you pretty much the same freedom as the way you're doing it.

Monie · #30 Nov 5th, 2007, 03:01

Frames?!?! I would not use that! It's old...

mcdanielnc89 · #31 Nov 5th, 2007, 03:12

Tis why i left no comment, lol.... if ya get a chance monie and you know how to do it via php hit me up on messenger if you get free time. if not don't worry about it, lol.

Monie · #32 Nov 5th, 2007, 03:21

yeah, Frames are old, as old as my 10 years old cat

but still very healthy tho...
I am new in PHP as well mcdaniel...

mcdanielnc89 · #33 Nov 5th, 2007, 03:25

ahh, lol.. Okay.

Stuart · #34 Nov 8th, 2007, 00:13

OK. I give up! I guess frames are a bad idea too. Anyone else have a suggestion?

MikeHopley · #35 Nov 8th, 2007, 00:33

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Originally Posted by swagner

OK. I give up! I guess frames are a bad idea too. Anyone else have a suggestion?

If you want to get the same benefits as frames, with none of the drawbacks and with many other advantages, the answer is simple: use PHP. You can replace frames with includes, but there's also much more that you can do to make your coding more efficient.

Yes, this requires a little effort in learning the rudiments of a scripting language. But it really, really pays off. PHP can save you vast amounts of manual labour.

I've only just gotten into PHP; but consider this example that I've been working on just recently:

Many of my web pages have "next page" and "previous page" links. These are listed once near the top of the page, once near the bottom, and once in invisible <link> navigation.

Whenever I make a new page or change an existing one, I must manually edit this code (all three sets). But with some PHP, I can just declare two variables ($next and $prev), and all that nav code is generated automatically for me.

In fact, it gets much more complicated than this, because my page sequence is sometimes affected by user preferences for more or less detail. Here the manual work becomes really miserable; but PHP trims it down to an absolute minimum and saves me even more time.

AdRock · #36 Nov 8th, 2007, 22:10

Working with Jan's article on using $_GET, here is your index page

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<?php
// check the $_GET['page'] variable
$page = ((isset($_GET['page']) && $_GET['page'] != '') ? $_GET['page'] : 'home');
// prevent file browsing
$page=(preg_match('/(\.\.|\/)/i',$page)?'home':$page);
// replace illegal characters
$page = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9 \._-]/','',$page);
// check if the requested file exists
$page = (file_exists('./pages/'.$page.'.php') ? $page : 'error');
// and include the page
include('./pages/'.$page.'.php');
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/html" lang="en">
<head>
    <title>New Breed Jesus Freaks</title>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <meta name="description" content="">
    <meta name="keywords" content="">

    <link href="includes/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
    <link href="includes/layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
    <link href="includes/menu.css" rel="stylesheet"&nbs

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