Hi

I'm setting up a php menu for a site that has no frames, the menu is a seperate file being included in a table cell. I need to refresh the menu, because when an option is clicked it will change the menu by either adding more options or removing some, depending what was clicked at the time.

Is there a way to refresh just that included menu file without refreshing the whole page please?

Thanks

i dont think that is the way php works. no easy solution to ur problem

Ok thanks, I'll try a few more things before giving up and going back to using frames

You can't in php without a round trip, but you can use javascript to show or hide elements.

Better avoid frames due to SE reasons. If your page is not very large (under 30K) it is quite OK if you will reload it after click on menu item.

Originally Posted by mtishetsky

Better avoid frames due to SE reasons. If your page is not very large (under 30K) it is quite OK if you will reload it after click on menu item.

This may seem a silly question, but how do I refresh the whole page that the menu is being include on? I'm designing the menu on one page which gets included on all pages, so later on I can easily edit the one menu which will take effect on all pages.

So I need a way for the included menu to know what page it's currently sitting in and refresh that page when someone clicks on a link, to view more options or hide certain options

I found a way to refresh the correct page. On every page but the menu, store in a super global variable the current url, then use that variable when refreshing.

Thanks for your help

You don't need to save the URL in a Super global. There's already one created for you by PHP.

Use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] rather than create a new superglobal.

Originally Posted by foobar

You don't need to save the URL in a Super global. There's already one created for you by PHP.

Use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] rather than create a new superglobal.

I used roughly the same thing, at the top of each page but the menu I used:

$_SESSION[currentPage] = $PHP_SELF;

On the menu page when calling the variable I used this at the top of the page:

$currentPage = $_SESSION[currentPage];

and on the links I used:

<a href='<?php $currentPage ?>?country=A'>A</a>