'Active' state on menu

[Tim_A +]

Can anyone explain the php needed to make the top buttons stay on there 'active' state once clicked?

I've found a few scripts but they won't seem to work because of all the variables after the category.php

e.g. i've now got a custom button at the top linked to category.php?cat=charities so i'd like the button to stay in the active/hover state when it's clicked.

as always any help appreciated.

[Eric Barnes +]

You could do some thing like this:

<a href="#" {if $smarty.get.cat == 'charities'}class="active"{/if}></a>

[Tim_A +]

Thanks Eric...

that works,

but.... (there's always a but with me!!)

it won't work if you go into child categories.

Is there a solution?

Cheers

[Eric Barnes +]

How many sub categories do you have? You could always list out each one in the if statement:

{if $smarty.get.cat == 'charities' || $smarty.get.cat =='charitiessubcat'}

[Tim_A +]

over 25 in some places

i've worked out how to do it for my pages which end in .php

[Eric Barnes +]

Will you post how you are doing it with the php pages and maybe that give me a better idea.

[Tim_A +]

At the top of the .php page i've got this:

PHP Code:

<?php $thispage = "cardiff";?>

Then the navigation has this:

PHP Code:

<li class="cardiff"><a class="<?php if($thispage=="cardiff"){echo"active";} ?>" href="cardiff.php">Cardiff</a></li>

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

Can you just make an "a:link, hover, active" the same in your stylesheet?

Just a thought,
-Mike

[Blair +]

Originally Posted by Tim_A

At the top of the .php page i've got this:

PHP Code:

<?php $thispage = "cardiff";?>

Then the navigation has this:

PHP Code:

<li class="cardiff"><a class="<?php if($thispage=="cardiff"){echo"active";} ?>" href="cardiff.php">Cardiff</a></li>

If you assign a php variable and then check to see if it exists later in the page, it will always be true. I don't think you need the

PHP Code:

<?php $thispage = "cardiff";?>

If you want a tab to appear in some other 'state' than the other tabs (and each tab represents a parent category), you're going to have to figure out some way of finding out the top category from the category name (appended as a query string) in the address.

[Eric Barnes +]

Mike.

Try this.

Open the category.php file and below the require_once statements add this function:

PHP Code:

function getAbsoluteParent($id)
    {
        global $db;
        $arr = array();
        $sSQL="SELECT id,parent_id FROM ".PREFIX."categories WHERE id=".$id." AND display<>'N' AND cLink='' ORDER BY cORDER DESC, name ASC";
        $result=$db->query($sSQL);
        $row = $result->fetch();
        
        if ($row['parent_id']!=0) 
        {
            $path = getAbsoluteParent($row['parent_id']);
        } 
        else
        {
            $path = $row['id'];
        }
        return $path;
    } 


Then inside the if statement:

PHP Code:

if($cat)
            {
                $keywords= $cat['cKeywords'];
                $description=$cat['description'];
                $promo = $cat['cPromo'];
//add this line:
                $class_tpl->assign('parent', getAbsoluteParent($cat['id'])); 


Then in your template file:
{if $parent == 1} change 1 to the actual parent id.