Nurvzy,
Yes! This is the first time I've written anything and then been able
to link to it. I don't like the idea of using your server to process
this, I think it's a task much better suited to CSS I wrote about it
here if you want to take a look http://www.lifeiscake.com/posts/view/css-menus
Sincerely,
~Andrew Allen
On Jan 13, 4:05 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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