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PHP

Posted by Emeka Forbes
Emeka Forbes
10,292 Points

Adding Active States to the Navigation

Hi,

I'm working on the basics of php - in the stage "build a simple PHP application", I'm trying to add active states to the menu. Unfortunately, adding my php code to echo "on" so the class in enabled doesn't work correctly.

Here's my header page:

<html> <head> <title><?php echo $pageTitle; ?></title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:400,700" type="text/css"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico"> </head> <body>

<div class="header">

    <div class="wrapper">

        <h1 class="branding-title"><a href="./">Shirts 4 Mike</a></h1>

        <ul class="nav">
            <li class="shirts <?php if ($section == "shirts") { echo "on";} ?>"><a href="shirts.php">Shirts</a></li>
            <li class="contact"><a href="contact.php">Contact</a></li>
            <li class="cart"><a href="#">Shopping Cart</a></li>
        </ul>

    </div>

</div>

<div id="content">

If anyone can let me know where i'm going wrong, I'd really appreciate it!

Meka

Emeka Forbes
Emeka Forbes
10,292 Points

And here's my Shirts page -

Here's my "Shirts" page:

<?php $pageTitle = "Shirts"; $section = "shirts"; include('inc/header.php'); ?> <div class="section page"> <h1>Meka’s Full Catalog Of Shirts</h1> </div> <?php include('inc/footer.php'); ?>

4 Answers

Emeka Forbes
Emeka Forbes
10,292 Points

Thanks for your help guys, I think it must have been a misspell somewhere I was too tired to pick up on. Everything works as it should this morning after I removed all the related php and coded it again...

Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points
Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points

As far as I can tell everything is fine. Maybe you should check if everything is spelled correctly.

Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points
Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points

Can you show everything you have on header.php.

Elliott Frazier
PLUS
Elliott Frazier
Courses Plus Student 9,647 Points
Elliott Frazier
Elliott Frazier
Courses Plus Student 9,647 Points

have you created a CSS rule that selects the "on" class?

.on {
    border-bottom: solid;
}
Chase Lee
Chase Lee
29,275 Points

It comes in the project files.