Get Page Name

[rick.huby]

I am updating a site that used to be in pure HTML.

On the original site each of the 5 or so sections had links on the
front page. When you enter a section the image for the link on the nav
changes to indicate which section you are in (head to
www.yorkshirelaser.co.uk to see what I mean).

I need to replicate this on the new PHP system but am using an include
file for the navigation, so I am unable to hardcode the relevent image
on the navigation. I don't really want to post things to the query
string so wondered if anyone has a solution for figuring out which page
I am on and getting the nav to choose the relevent image for the
current section.

This must be a typical issue in PHP web development so can anyone give
me the typical way of solving this?

Only way I can think of doing this is to set a variable in each page
just before I include the nav.php file, then use this to figure out
which section the user is in - but is there a better way?
Thanks for any and all advise.

[Geoff Berrow]

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ri*******@e-connected.com contained the following:

I need to replicate this on the new PHP system but am using an include
file for the navigation, so I am unable to hardcode the relevent image
on the navigation. I don't really want to post things to the query
string so wondered if anyone has a solution for figuring out which page
I am on and getting the nav to choose the relevent image for the
current section.

$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] contains the name of the current page

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[steve]

"user2424" wrote:

I noticed that Message-ID:
<11**********************@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups .com> from
ri*******@e-connected.com contained the following:

I need to replicate this on the new PHP system but am using an

include

file for the navigation, so I am unable to hardcode the relevent

image

on the navigation. I don’t really want to post things to

the query

string so wondered if anyone has a solution for figuring out which

page

I am on and getting the nav to choose the relevent image for the
current section.

$_SERVER[’PHP_SELF’] contains the name of the current
page

and if you want the whole url, do:

$_SERVER[’PHP_SELF’] . "?" . $_SERVER[’QUERY_STRING];

note that if querystring is empty, then a "?" is added, if that is a
problem, run code to check for QS being present.

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