Re: navigation include not functioning (RESOLVED)

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I just wanted to let know I figured out my last issue (last as in, for now).

In my navigation.php include file, I had if ($page = about) echo href....
I changed it to if ($page == about) echo.... and it suddenly worked! Imagine
that...

Thanks all for you help, you are celebrities in my book now.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Martin Scotta wrote:

> You are using a value-filled array as a key-filled. Try this snippet
> and look the results...
>
> $pages = array('about' , 'services', 'portfolio', 'contact');
> $page = array_key_exists( 'page', $_GET ) ? $_GET[ 'page' ] : 'about';
> /*if*/ false === array_search( $page, $pages, true ) && (
> $page = 'about'
> );
>
> # note the sintax used to avoid if-statement
> # this has the same behaviour, but with less performance
> $pages = array('about' , 'services', 'portfolio', 'contact');
> $page = array_key_exists( 'page', $_GET ) ? $_GET[ 'page' ] : 'about';
> if( false === array_search( $page, $pages, true ))
> {
> $page = 'about';
> }
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Allen McCabe wrote:
> > Okay, I see how href="?page=contact" would work, and I do indeed have
> only
> > one file (which loads includes), but it still is not working. Clicking a
> > link, be href=?page=contact, href=?page=services, whatever, it still
> loads
> > the page with the ?page=whatever attached to the URL, but it is not
> > subsituting the $page variable within the include snippets, and it just
> > loads the 'about' versions of all includes
> (/phpincludes/about_content.php
> > as opposed to /phpincludes/services_content.php or whichever).
> >
> > This is really stumping me and try as I might I cannot see why it will
> not
> > work. Here is some of my code as it is currently:
> >
> > On default.php:
> >
> > [code=default.php]
> >
> >
> >
> > > >
> > $pages = array(
> > // list of includes:
> > 'about' , 'services', 'portfolio', 'contact'
> > );
> > $page = isset($_GET['page']) && isset($pages[$_GET['page']]) ?
> > $_GET['page'] : 'about';
> > // about is default page here
> >
> > ?>
> >