Simple next and previous links from an array (help please)

[steviehype]

Hi there,

I'm still very new to PHP and wondered if you could help.

Heres the situation...

I have 8 web pages. index.php, page2.php, page3.php etc..
These include a header.html and footer.html (in an "includes" folder).

I'd like to have a simple "next page" and "previous page" links at the top of every page.

So I created a functions.php and put that in the "includes" folder.
In the header.html I call the function np()

Now this is the way I thought I could do it (probably the wrong way!)....

* find the page we're on
* locate position in the array (The site will never be very big so I can just add the page to this array if I create more in the future)
* make next and previous buttons +1 and -1 of that position
* if at the end of array, loop to the beginning.

function np(){
    $url = array(
        'index' => 'index',
        'page2' => 'page2',
        'page3' => 'page3',
        'page4' => 'page4',
        'page5' => 'page5',
        'page6' => 'page6',
        'page7' => 'page7',
        'page8' => 'page8'
    );
    foreach ($url as $key => $value){
        if($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] == "$key.php"){
            
/*Here's where I thought I could state that 
$next would be the $key +1 of the array index and 
$previous would be the $key -1 of the array index

I'd also like it to loop around when the user pressed 
next on page8.php it would go to index.php*/

        }
        else{
            //not sure what I'd put here!
        }
    }
    
} 

I've been trying various different ways of doing this, but I''m not very good.

So this is my last resort, please could someone help me write this code?

Any help is much appreciated.

Steve

[galen]

make the array indexed by number

    $url = array(
            'index',
            'page2',
            'page3',
            'page4',
            'page5',
            'page6',
            'page7',
            'page8'
        ); 

then use array_search(page, $url) to get the index for the current page. then you can add and subtract 1 to get the prev and next pages.

[galen]

So I created a functions.php and put that in the "includes" folder.
In the header.html I call the function np()

You can only include files from php pages. rename header.html to header.php

[steviehype]

ok thanks,

I've got this so far, but at the moment its printing whats indexed at position 1 in the array.

function fl(){
    $url = array('index.php', 'page2.php', 'page3.php', 'page4.php', 'page5.php', 'page6.php', 'page7.php', 'page8.php'); 
    
    $path = basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
    
    foreach ($url as $page){
        if ($path == $page){
            $next = $url[+1];
        }
        else{
            
        }
    }
    echo "<a href=\"$next\">Next</a>";
    
} 

how would I get $next to actually be +1 in the array?

Thanks again,

[galen]

try this...

function fl(){
 
    $url = array('index.php', 'page2.php', 'page3.php', 'page4.php', 'page5.php', 'page6.php', 'page7.php', 'page8.php'); 
 
    $path = basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
 
   foreach ($url as $key => $page){
        if ($path == $page){
              if ($prev = $url[$key-1])
                    $prev_link = "<a href=\"{$prev}\">prev</a>";
              if ($next = $url[$key+1])
                    $next_link = "<a href=\"{$next}\">next</a>";
        }
        else{
 
 
        }
 
    }
 
    echo $prev_link . ' - ' . $next_link;
 
}

You gotta test for the existence of the prev/next pages.

[steviehype]

Thank-you so much for your help. I many more lines of code than that!

Thanks again,

Steve