Dynamic menu bar in a frame - controlling frames in php?

[Martien van Wanrooij]

I have been using in a lot of websites a script that creates a menu bar but
avoids that the button to the current page can be clicked.
I am rather satisfied with it (although suggestions for better ways of doing
things are welcome, the script follows below FYI)
No there is a a problem that for a new site (www.orkestbasic.nl/nieuw) the
menu with the links has to be placed in a separate frame because the right
part of the page must be scrollable. So the check wether a button has to be
a link or not cannot be done anymore with checking PHP_SELF as I am used to
do.
I am thinking of making all the links to something like <a href =
"main.php?conte nt=songlist">
then main.php would be a frameset with something like <frame name =
"content" src = "<?php echo "$content.php"? >">
In the left frame I could do a similar thing with a small modification to
the createlink function (see below) I often use.
But I would like to know if there are more elegant suggestions for it. Could
not find really good tips on google. Thanks for any help


FYI This is the function I have been using until now.


function mvwMaakLink($om schrijving, $verwijzing, $separator = "",
$aHrefClass = "", $noHrefClass = "")
{
$locatie = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
//link to the current page, no need for clicking on
it
//echo $locatie;
if (strstr($locati e, $omschrijving))
{
$beginTag = "";
$slotTag = "";
if ($noHrefClass != "")
{
$beginTag = "<span class = \"$noHrefClass\ ">";
$slotTag = "</span>";
}
echo "$beginTag$verw ijzing$slotTag" ;
}
else
{
$beginTag = "<a ";
if ($aHrefClass != "")
{
$beginTag .= "class = \"$aHrefClas s\" ";
}
$beginTag .= "href = \"$omschrijving \">";
echo("$beginTag $verwijzing</a>$separator") ;
}
}

[Oli Filth]

Re: Dynamic menu bar in a frame - controlling frames in php?

Martien van Wanrooij said the following on 05/09/2005 17:44:[color=blue]
> I have been using in a lot of websites a script that creates a menu bar but
> avoids that the button to the current page can be clicked.
> I am rather satisfied with it (although suggestions for better ways of doing
> things are welcome, the script follows below FYI)
> No there is a a problem that for a new site (www.orkestbasic.nl/nieuw) the
> menu with the links has to be placed in a separate frame because the right
> part of the page must be scrollable. So the check wether a button has to be
> a link or not cannot be done anymore with checking PHP_SELF as I am used to
> do.
> I am thinking of making all the links to something like <a href =
> "main.php?conte nt=songlist">
> then main.php would be a frameset with something like <frame name =
> "content" src = "<?php echo "$content.php"? >">
> In the left frame I could do a similar thing with a small modification to
> the createlink function (see below) I often use.
> But I would like to know if there are more elegant suggestions for it. Could
> not find really good tips on google. Thanks for any help
>[/color]

As an alternative to frames, you could investigate scrollable DIVs.
e.g.:


CSS
===

HTML { overflow: hidden; }

#menu
{
position: absolute;
width: 30%;
height: 100%;
top: 0;
left: 0;
background: #FF9999;
}

#pagecontent
{
position: absolute;
width: 70%;
height: 100%;
top: 0;
right: 0;
background: #9999FF;
overflow: scroll;
}




HTML
====


<DIV id="menu">
... menu stuff here ...
</DIV>

<DIV id="pagecontent ">
... the page content here ...
</DIV>



This avoids the evils of frames, (Google for "frames are evil").


--
Oli

[Martien van Wanrooij]

Re: Dynamic menu bar in a frame - controlling frames in php?


"Oli Filth" <catch@olifilth .co.uk> schreef in bericht
news:U4%Se.3725 $7p1.1809@newsf e7-win.ntli.net...[color=blue]
> As an alternative to frames, you could investigate scrollable DIVs.[/color]
I know that this possibility and I often visit a Dutch ng to discuss such
problems but I am afraid it will be very difficult to make it work in all
browsers. Although this is offtopic for the php forum I would like that my
customer would write shorter text to avoid the whole scrolling problem. :)
Thanks for your advise anyway :)

Martien