Christopher W wrote:
At least I hope it is simple...
I am trying to get an HTML menu link to set a variable's value. For
example, when a user clicks the "Home" button on my page it would cause
$page = "home"; or clicking the "About Us" button will set $page="about_us";
etc.
I think this should be fairly simple but being completely new to php I just
cannot seem to get it right.
Any help would be greatly appreciate.
Thank you in advance.
Christopher,
Rather then criticizing you, I would like to point you in the direction that you describe in your
responses to the others that are.
So, it sounds to me like you do not want to reload/change pages just to change the content of the
current page.
With PHP alone you cannot load new content without reloading the entire page, or involving one of
the other methods listed below.
I would say that you have two avenues to get this done.
The first using a meld of AJAX & PHP
http://nodstrum.com/2007/02/27/ajaxcontentload/
http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/ajax-dynamic-articles/ajax-dynamic-articles.html
http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/ajax-dynamic-content/ajax-dynamic-content.html
The second is with Javascript and/or CSS
http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/HTML/Preloading-HTML-Content-with-CSS/
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/switchcontent.htm
Hope these help.
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Jim Lucas
"Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them."
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by William Shakespeare
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