Currently for my projects I create the navigation for each page manually and it looks something similar to:
<nav>
<ul id="mainMenu"><!--Main Menu-->
<li><a class="active" href="index.php">Home</a></li>
<li>Contact</li>
</ul>
</nav>
This works fine, however for projects that has many many pages it is not a really good practice or even efficient to do it manually. So I was wondering if there is anyone who can direct me to the right path and advice me on how to make my navigation dynamic? I know about PHP include and the .inc files - they are good. BUT I want to add class .active to the <a> of the page that is currently open. How can I do that?
BTW: I don't know if this s the right place to post this sort of questions here, but the moderator told me to post it here.
Use include to add a central php file, that contains a function which can take the current page as a parameter:
nav.inc:
function renderNavigation($current_page) {
//render you navigation
}
main.php:
require_once("nav.inc");
renderNavigation("Subpage 1")
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I'm building a website while also trying to keep changing code an easy task.
For that, I include the navbar with <?php require_once('./includes/navbar.php'); ?> so that I only need to change the navbar.php to see changes site-wide.
I also use Bootstrap 5 and let it take care of styling the currently active page by using <a class="active"> (and also using the recommended aria-current="page" attribute).
Now my problem is that I need to somehow dynamically apply the above mentioned class and tag to only the active page. I have no idea how to do that in an elegant way but thought that this might be possible in PHP?
Does somebody know how to do it?
Click here to see code of the navbar
I did some research and managed to fix my problem with a little bit of javascript code which you can just add with <script></script> tags anywhere in the html code:
Give every link in the navbar html a unique id (e.g. id="pricing").
Add class="active" to active page and Bootstrap.css will style that element accordingly.
Remove class="active" from the other pages/links which are not active.
Set aria-current="page" to active page and set aria-current="none" to inactive pages.
in navbar.php:
<a id="home" class="nav-link active" href="index.php">Home</a> <!-- 1. -->
<a id="pricing" class="nav-link" href="pricing.php">Pricing</a> <!-- 1. -->
in pricing.php:
<script>
var pricing = document.getElementById("pricing");
pricing.classList.add('active'); //2.
pricing.setAttribute("aria-current", "page"); //4.
var home = document.getElementById("home");
home.classList.remove('active'); //3.
home.setAttribute("aria-current","none"); //4.
</script>
Hope this may help someone else too.
I'm working on a Wordpress theme on my local machine and i thought it would be cool to use bootstrap with it. I build the website already in html/css but wanted to upload it to Wordpress (To learn wordpress).
Now i'm rebuilding my nav section because i want it to make it customable in my admin-panel. I'm using:
<?php $args = array( 'theme_location' => 'header' ); ?>
<?php wp_nav_menu( $args ); ?>
The bowser displayed a div>ul>li>a. I edited the div, ul and li's class to bootstrap classes but now i need to get an A class of nav-link to my a tag.
This is what my bowser gives me now:
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarCollapse">
<ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto">
<li class="nav-item">
Homepage
</li>
</ul>
</div>
This is what i want.
Home
I'm editing my nav-menu-template.php now but can't find it.
Where can i change the classes of the A tag in wp_nav_menu();
(I know that someone else asked this aswell, but i couldn't get that code to work. Maybe because the commands where from 2014 or maybe because i did something wrong.)
You may have some luck looking through your theme's functions.php file. Try looking for the wp_nav_menu function in that file, and see what that gets you.
The code you're looking for may be in functions.php, or you may find a reference in that file to another file.
How this stuff gets handled can vary widely based on how the template is constructed, which may be why you didn't have much luck searching for the answer.
Best of luck!
I would like to add a menu or footer like in Wordpress or any other CMS.
That really dont work with PHP includes because if a website file is in subdirectory there is a problem with the path.
As you know a normal static menu looks like
<nav>
<ul>
<li>About</li>
</ul>
</nav>
but CMS menu looks like
<nav>
<ul>
<li>About</li>
</ul>
</nav>
And that on all pages so no problems with the path
if you try it with static/dynamic pages you have to add the path or the url and that looks really ugly or not
<?php
define('WEB_ROOT', '../'); // relative path to /
?>
...
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Solution</li>
or
<li>Solution</li>
or
<li>Solution</li>
</ul>
</nav>
I think thats a bad idea and really ugly.
so how to solve that kind of problem maybe with adding a web root in php like above but looks not really good so do you have any other ideas?
And that Solution should also work for CSS and JS not only for static contents, so all styles are same and menus looks just like the other pages even if it is in the subdirectories
Generally in Wordpress I use the site url to generate full urls:
site_url('/about');
As for JS/CSS files, it depends where you are putting them. If the files are located in a specific theme use:
get_template_directory();
you can use it...in "a" tag href="", use this:
echo home_url('index.php/about');
or remove the index.php, just about [the name of the page.]
Done.
I'm working on a scrollable one-page website, in which each div represents a different section. For example, url is dynaone.com/index.php, and when I click on the menu's different buttons, it changes to /index.php#s1, #s2, #s3, and so on. In section nº 2 I added another menu that works with php GET, in a way that when you click on one of the buttons, it redirects you to index.php?id=1 and so on. Of course when I first tried it, it scrolled me back to the top of the page, 'home', as I wasn't specifying the section. But when I did, assigning "index.php?id=1#s2" to the first element in the inner menu, it redirected me to section 1. It doesn't matter which number I write after "#s", it will keep putting section nº 1 on top of the page.
I'm using SMINT's demo as a base, adjusting it to my website's needs, but I couldn't find anything related to GET method issues on the plugin's page.
I would really appreciate some help with this, as it's very annoying having to go back everytime I click to correctly view section nº 2.
This is part of my inner menu:
<div id="botonera_productos"><ul>
<li> Quemadores </li>
<li> BCAAs</li> </ul> </div>
This is my php section:
if(#$_GET['id']==1) {
?>
<figure><img src="imagenes/quemadores/1.jpg"><figcaption> ULTIMATE L-CARNITINA 500 60 TABS - <b>$330</b> </figcaption></figure>
<?php } ?>
And this is the site's main menu:
<nav class="subMenu" >
<div class="inner">
Home
Nosotros
Productos
Local
Envíos
Consultas
Facebook
</div>
</nav>
Thank you.
The question isn't very clear but basically:
The anchor is an HTML construct. So once the page is already loaded, you can use #whatever to take you to wherever on that page that the anchor has been defined; ala <a id="whatever">
The PHP arguments, like ?id=1 - a new page will be loaded depending on what you use here.
You can use anchors in conjunction with a PHP page (ie. a PHP page may have multiple anchors) but you cannot load a new page with anchors alone.
Maybe Javascript will help you achieve what you want to do. With AJAX calls and the like then there are far less restrictions on how you load data.
I've been looking around for some guide that could tell me how to make an existing menu editable when added in Concrete 5.
Here's the menu I'm using now, I'd like to be able to edit it in c5:
<div class="menu">
<ul>
<li><span>Hem</span></li>
<li><span>Om oss</span></li>
<li><span>Tjänster</span></li>
<li><span>Referenser</span></li>
<li><span> Kontakt</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
The links doesn't work at all in c5, so if anyone could help me a little that would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
One of the nice benefits of using any CMS is that it will automatically create the nav menu for you -- so that when users add new pages they automatically show up in the menu.
In Concrete5 specifically, the way you do this is with the "AutoNav" block. As with any block, this can be added to areas on your page, but since you generally want the nav menu to appear on EVERY page in the same place, you can also add the block directly in your template code.
So, for your menu (which is a one-level menu without a dropdown), replace your nav menu html with this code:
<?php
$nav = BlockType::getByHandle('autonav');
$nav->controller->orderBy = 'display_asc';
$nav->controller->displayPages = 'top';
$nav->controller->displaySubPages = 'none';
$nav->render('templates/header_menu');
?>
Now you will need to make a change to your CSS, because that code will generate HTML that is slightly different than what you have -- it looks more like this:
<ul class="nav-header">
<li>Hem</li>
<li>Om oss</li>
<li>Tjänster</li>
<li>Referenser</li>
<li>Kontakt</li>
</ul>
The differences are that there's no surrounding div (although you could leave that if you wanted by surrounding the php code above in the opening and closing div tags), there's no span around the nav items, and the class for a selected item is "nav-selected" instead of "current".