On 2/2/12 2:38 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
john wrote:
Can somebody point me to a tutorial that shows how to put a menu into
it's own page, the advantage that you edit/adjust once, and all pages
are updated, rather than editing the menu on each page.
Tutorial ? Sorry, no. Suggestions ? A few ::
Dreamweaver templates and library files;
Server-side includes;
XMLHttpRequest
Philip Taylor
Philip,
Surprised you would suggest Dreamweaver templates? Headache for me.
The PHP includes from the Webdesign list was a great solution!
From Tedd for John:
1. Create a navigation snip-it, such as:
<div id="navcol">
<ul>
<li><a href="home.php">home</a></li>
<li><a href="about.php">about us</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.php">contact us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
2. Save the code as "menu.php" as-is (i.e., no header or anything else).
3. Change your index page suffix from ".html" to ".php".
4. In your new index.php page replace the navigational code with:
<?php include('menu.php'); ?>
5. Launch your Browser and inspect the source code for the new index page --
the menu code will be there.
6. Now, repeat on every page in your site and you'll have one menu file.
Here's an example:
http://sperling.com/examples/include-demo/
Follow that demo and I think you'll never do it the old way again.
Cheers,
tedd
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Eric
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