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[uummmhhhh]

Hey peeps,

I am familiar with PHP but have never properly coded with it and I was wondering if I could get some help with a code I’m trying to get to work.

I'm design my first site with elements of php, mainly just using include() to call pages and so on, however, I want to make the nav (which is in the index.php) to respond to whatever page is being called. I want it to work, so that when someone click a link, and visits a page, that link becomes inactive. I'm not getting any errors anymore, and at its present state, the link is constantly inactive, no matter where I am on the site.

Anyway, here's my code for the link.

<?php
if ($page="home")
{
?>
<img src="site_imgs/home_but_b.jpg" alt="HOME" name="home_link" width="64" height="25" border="0" id="home_link" />
<?php
}
else
{
?>
<a href="index.php?page=home" onmouseout="MM_swapImgRestore()" onmouseover="MM_swapImage('home_link','','site_imgs/home_but_b.jpg',1)"><img src="site_imgs/home_but_a.jpg" alt="HOME" name="home_link" width="64" height="25" border="0" id="home_link" /></a>
<?php
}
?>

and in the "home" page, I have the following to identify it.

<?php
$page = "home";
?>

As im sure you can see from there, I have rollover images as links, and I want the link, once clicked, to show the over image.

I'm not even 100% sure that I am going about this the right way, so if anyone can either help me get this to work, or can show me an easier or better way to do it, it'd be much appricated.

Thanks.

[mudshark]

Try

if ($_GET['page'] == "home"){
... 

Notice I use == instead of = .
= assigns, == compares.
Also, it's better to use $_GET, as your script won't work with register_globals off.

[uummmhhhh]

thats f**kin sorted, aw nice one m8, I owe ya one big time.

[mudshark]

By the way, there's no need to "identify" your "home" include like you say above. It gets pointed to by the link that says ?page=home ...

[uummmhhhh]

Ok, extending on whats above, I've tried to code it so that theres one place for an image, and depending on what page you're on, a different image is displayed, how would I do that?

[iamkoa]

I think this is what you mean:

if ($_GET['page'] == "home"){ 
  echo '<img src="home_img.gif" border="0" />';
} else if ($_GET['page'] == "blog") {
  echo '<img src="blog_img.gif" border="0" />';
}

...