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?content=songlist">
then main.php would be a frameset with something like <frame name =
"content" src = "<?php echo "$content.php"?>">
In the left frame I could do a similar thing with a small modification to
the createlink function (see below) I often use.
But I would like to know if there are more elegant suggestions for it. Could
not find really good tips on google. Thanks for any help
FYI This is the function I have been using until now.
function mvwMaakLink($omschrijving, $verwijzing, $separator = "",
$aHrefClass = "", $noHrefClass = "")
{
$locatie = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
//link to the current page, no need for clicking on
it
//echo $locatie;
if (strstr($locatie, $omschrijving))
{
$beginTag = "";
$slotTag = "";
if ($noHrefClass != "")
{
$beginTag = "<span class = \"$noHrefClass\">";
$slotTag = "</span>";
}
echo "$beginTag$verwijzing$slotTag";
}
else
{
$beginTag = "<a ";
if ($aHrefClass != "")
{
$beginTag .= "class = \"$aHrefClass\" ";
}
$beginTag .= "href = \"$omschrijving\">";
echo("$beginTag$verwijzing</a>$separator");
}
}

[Oli Filth]

Martien van Wanrooij said the following on 05/09/2005 17:44:

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?content=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

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]

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

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