Making 1 navigation file to control entire site

spacepoet · November 30, 2010

Hello:

I have a question. I use to - when I was doing Classic ASP - make a single navigation file to include all aspects of site navigation.

I'm trying to do that now in PHP, but keep getting errors. Can some set me straight (I am assuming what I want to do can be done in PHP).

I have my myNav.php file (in an "include" subfolder):

<?php

function showLinks()

<script type="text/javascript" src="include/spNewWindow.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="include/openSesame.js"></script>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="include/StyleSheet.css" />

?>



<?php

function showTopMenu()

<a href="#">Link 1</a><br />

<a href="#">Link 2</a><br />

<a href="#">Link 3</a><br />

?>

This is the myPage.php I am trying to pull it in to:

<?php include('include/myNav.php'); ?>

<html>
<head>

<title></title>

<?php echo $showLinks; ?>

</head>

<body>

<div id="myMenu">

<?php echo $showTopMenu; ?>

</div>

... REST OF SITE, ETC ...



</body>

</html>

However, this is not working at all.

I have figured out how to make files for each individual aspect - Menu, Footer, META tags, etc - but I would like to do this with one file as shown above.

Is this possible?

Thanks!

Pikachu2000 · November 30, 2010

Your function doesn't actually do anything.

function showTopMenu() {
$menu = 
"<a href=\"#\">Link 1</a><br />\n
<a href=\"#\">Link 2</a><br />\n
<a href=\"#\">Link 3</a><br />";
return $menu;
}

//Then use:
echo showTopMenu();

spacepoet · December 1, 2010

Hey.

Thank you! OK, I got it:

<?php

function showLinks() {
$showLinks =
"
<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"include/spNewWindow.js\"></script>\n

<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"include/openSesame.js\"></script>\n

<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"include/StyleSheet.css\" />";

return $showLinks;
}




function showtopMenu() {
$showtopMenu =
"
<a href=\"#\">Link 1</a><br />\n
<a href=\"#\">Link 2</a><br />\n
<a href=\"#\">Link 3</a><br />";
return $showtopMenu;
}

?>

Thanks for pointing this out.

Leads to another question:

I have a basic form that updates a record via a few text fields and a textarea field.

I have noticed that when I add an " ' " (apostrophe) it, it adds a "/" (slash) to the data.

And, I noticed you use a "/" (slash) in your fuction example.

Does one need to somehow "escape" all apostrophes and quotes with PHP?

If so, is there a way to pull in a code library to handle it? I use to use one in ASP programming.

Like:

<?php include('include/myCodeLib.php'); ?>

myCodeLib.php:

<?php

function replaceDashes() {

SOME KIND OF CODE HERE

?>
}

Possible?

Thank you!

jcbones · December 1, 2010

If it is automatically adding slashes to your data, then magic_quotes_gpc() is turned on. You should bypass this, and run mysql_real_escape_string(). This second function will properly escape the data, without leaving a slash on the quotes.

Something like this should get you started:

if(get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
  $_POST = array_map('stripslashes',$_POST);
  $_GET = array_map('stripslashes',$_GET);
  $_COOKIE = array_map('stripslashes',$_COOKIE);
}

spacepoet · December 1, 2010

Hi:

OK, thanks much for the tip and info.

I truly don't know what any of that means. Is that something controled on the server/mySQL DB?

I am making the jump from ASP to PHP, and need to get up to speed on things like this.

Your code, is that a function to be called in via a code libraby like I mentioned, or added to the SQL UPDATE statement?

My code (which I got A LOT of help on from here!) is like this:

<?php
include('include/myConn.php'); 

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
{

$myTitle = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['myTitle']);
$myDesc = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['myDesc']);
$myHeader = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['myHeader']);
$mySubHeader = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['mySubHeader']);
$myPageData = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['myPageData']);

$sql = "
UPDATE myAbout
   SET
      myTitle = '$myTitle',
      myDesc = '$myDesc',
      myHeader = '$myHeader',
      mySubHeader = '$mySubHeader',
      myPageData = '$myPageData'
  ";
    
mysql_query($sql) && mysql_affected_rows()    
?>

<script language="JavaScript">
alert("This page was updated!");
location.href = "a_About.php";
</script>

<?php

$query=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM myAbout") or die("Could not get data from db: ".mysql_error());
while($result=mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
  $myTitle=$result['myTitle'];
  $myDesc=$result['myDesc'];
  $myHeader=$result['myHeader'];
  $mySubHeader=$result['mySubHeader'];
  $myPageData=$result['myPageData'];

?>

......

         <form method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF;?>">
         <input type="hidden" name="POSTBACK" value="EDIT">

         
         <div style="float: left; width: 550px;">
         
         <textarea cols="80" rows="1" name="myTitle"><?php echo $myTitle; ?></textarea>
         
         </div>

	ETC ...

         <br />
         
         <input type="submit" value="Submit" />

         </form>

This forum is really making this easier!

Thanks for the help.

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