try to use an associative array to build the menu php: get data from a yaml file or txt or whatever. then build the array structure and encode to json. Also could make the file directly in json format
$menu array("link1" => "http://xxxx", "link2" => array ( "link2.1" => "http:/....", "link2.2" => "http://.." ) ) echo json_encode($menu); jquery: var mymenu; $.ajax({ async: false, success: function(data) { mymenu = data; (render the menu) }, url: "http://urltomenufile.php", type: "get", dataType: "json" }); Thats all -- Carlos De Oliveira Departamento De Sistemas Consultor Senior 0426 517 73 01 0212 204 69 60 cdeolive...@grupozoom.com card...@gmail.com