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[john0611]

Hi all, I've been trying to work this one out?

<ul>
<?php /* current page */ $currentPage = basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']); ?>

	<li><a href="about_the_artist.php" <?php if ($currentPage == 'about_the_artist.php') {echo 'id="select"';} ?>>Introduction</a></li>

    <li><a href="c._v._&amp;_exhibitions.php" <?php if ($currentPage == 'c._v._&_exhibitions.php') {echo 'id="select"';} ?>>C.V. / Exhibitions</a></li>

    <li><a href="#">Buy Prints</a></li>

</ul>
    
    <h2>The Decades:</h2>

<?php
//echo linked results from db
	// query db
	$sql = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM `decades` ORDER BY ID ASC");
	// echo linked result from db
	while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql)){
	echo "<ul><li>" . "<a href='the_decades.php?ID={$row['ID']}'>" . ($row['Date']) . "</a></li></ul>";
// I'm not too sure here?
	if ($currentPage == 'the_decades.php?ID={$row[ID]}') {echo 'id="select"';}

}
?>

What I would like to do is echo the linked results from the DB which works perfect, but when the user selects and clicks on the link I would like to have it highlighted to indicate current page. (id="select") is the a:hover from style sheet.

Any ideas would be great!

[Schmoopy]

Do you mean something like this? :

<ul>
<?php /* current page */ $currentPage = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
    /*  full path URL, including query*/    $fullpath = basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); // e.g. -> the_decades.php?ID=59
?>

    <li><a href="about_the_artist.php" <?php if ($currentPage == 'about_the_artist.php') {echo 'id="select"';} ?>>Introduction</a></li>

    <li><a href="c._v._&amp;_exhibitions.php" <?php if ($currentPage == 'c._v._&_exhibitions.php') {echo 'id="select"';} ?>>C.V. / Exhibitions</a></li>

    <li><a href="#">Buy Prints</a></li>

</ul>
    
    <h2>The Decades:</h2>

<?php



//echo linked results from db
    // query db
    $sql = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM `decades` ORDER BY ID ASC");
    // echo linked result from db
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql)){
    echo "<ul><li>" . "<a href='the_decades.php?ID={$row['ID']}' "; echo ($fullpath == "the_decades.php?ID={$row['ID']}") ? 'id="select"' : ''; echo ">" . ($row['Date']) . "</a></li></ul>";
}
?>

The way you have it at the moment, using $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] you can't get the full query, so it just gets the page name, instead of grabbing the rest of it (everything after the question mark).

I think this is what you want, but just say if this doesn't work for you.

[john0611]

Fantastic! Just the job.

Thanks for your help Schmoopy.