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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Building a Media Library in PHP Adding Active States to the Navigation

Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
15,754 Points
Posted by Martina Carrington
Martina Carrington
15,754 Points

I revived error message on header.php

I received a error message on header.php about line 16 . i carefully check the code but i don't see anything wrong <html> <head> <title><?php echo $pageTitle;?></title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body>

<div class="header">

    <div class="wrapper">

        <h1 class="branding-title"><a href="./">Personal Media Library</a></h1>

        <ul class="nav">
            <li class="books <?php if ($section == "book") {echo " on"; } ?>"><a href="catalog.php?cat=books">Books</a></li>
            <li class="movies<?php if ($section == "movies") {echo " on";} ?"><a href="catalog.php?cat=movies">Movies</a></li>
            <li class="music<?php if ($section == "music") {echo " on";} ?"><a href="catalog.php?cat=music">Music</a></li>
            <li class="suggest<?php if ($section == "suggest") {echo " on";} ?"><a href="suggest.php">Suggest</a></li>
        </ul>

    </div>

</div>

<div id="content">

2 Answers

Kai Nightmode
Kai Nightmode
37,045 Points
Kai Nightmode
Kai Nightmode
37,045 Points

Ah, I think all that is missing are some closing ?> tags.

Here is updated code with closing PHP tags in the right places. It has some extra spaces throw in to make comparing each line a bit easier.

<title><?php echo $pageTitle;?></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css">



<div class="header">

    <div class="wrapper">

        <h1 class="branding-title"><a href="./">Personal Media Library</a></h1>

        <ul class="nav">
            <li class="books<?php   if ($section == "book")    {echo " on";} ?>"><a href="catalog.php?cat=books">Books</a></li>
            <li class="movies<?php  if ($section == "movies")  {echo " on";} ?>"><a href="catalog.php?cat=movies">Movies</a></li>
            <li class="music<?php   if ($section == "music")   {echo " on";} ?>"><a href="catalog.php?cat=music">Music</a></li>
            <li class="suggest<?php if ($section == "suggest") {echo " on";} ?>"><a href="suggest.php">Suggest</a></li>
        </ul>

    </div>

</div>

<div id="content">

I have not actually run the above code on a PHP server so you may need to test / tweak a bit more.

Cheers!

Nick Dim
Nick Dim
12,885 Points
Nick Dim
Nick Dim
12,885 Points

In the menu, the list items are wrong. The first is correct but the rest have mistakes.