If I understand this right, you are looking to set an "active" tab,
based on the view you are currently in...
It can be done easily from the view itself, i.e. in view_one.ctp:
$this->set('tabOne', true); (which is now going to be available in
your layout).
Therefore, in the layout you could do: <?php echo isset($tabOne) ?
'class="selected-tab"' : null; ?>
On Jan 13, 6:05 pm, nurvzy <nur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm new to cakephp and working through my first cake app. I'm
> chugging along and am now stumped as to where to put a function I've
> written to help decide if a navigation tab should have the
> id="selected" assigned to the anchor tag.
>
> Basically the gist is I have a <ul> Navigation bar with various links:
> (Home, Contact, ect..) and depending on the current controller or
> action or whatever I pass in; I want the id of that <a> tag to be
> "selected".
>
> So I've written a little function:
>
> function is_selected($controller_or_action, $link_text){
> if (strpos($controller_or_action,$link_text) !== false) return true;
> else return false;
>
> }
>
> And I'm calling it like so in the default.ctp layout:
>
> <?php
> if(is_selected($this->params['controller'], "pages")) echo $html->link
> ('Contact', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'contactus'),
> array('id' => 'selected'));
> else echo $html->link('Contact', array('controller' => 'pages',
> 'action' => 'contactus'));
> ?>
>
> But that's really tedious and quite ugly, plus I have that function
> just written at the top of the layout which is a big no-no. So I'm
> looking for some help/advice. How do you specify a tab type layout in
> your cake app?
>
> Thank you for your advice and/or help.
> Nick
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