How do I show the active page in my navigation?

[expandmind]

Hello,

 

header.tpl >> In my navigation I have a list of pages:

 

<ul id="mainmenu">

<li class="active"><a href="/home">Home</a></li>

<li><a href="/page1">/Page2</a></li>

<li><a href="/page/page2">Page2</a></li>

</ul>

 

How do I go about creating something that automatically changes the active page to have the class 'active' assigned to it? - Active links on my main menu.

 

Thank you in advance.

[EricHamby]

Id like to know this one also.

[expandmind]

Id like to know this one also.

 

hi, from the WHMCS support they told me,

 

" You can see this on the Creating Pages module in the wiki:

 

http://wiki.whmcs.com/Creating_Pages

 

it is the $breadcrumbnav you need to set "

 

Any idea how to do this with my example?

[simplexwebs]

We did this on our whmcs based site (http://www.simplexwebs.com) using smarty {if} statements and a bit of php.

 

In each of the pages, we created a smarty variable called 'category' and assigned it the page name eg.

 

$category = "hosting";
initialiseClientArea($pagetitle,$pageicon,$breadcrumbnav);
$smartyvalues["category"] = $category; 

 

or

$category = "aboutus";
initialiseClientArea($pagetitle,$pageicon,$breadcrumbnav);
$smartyvalues["category"] = $category; 

 

then in the header.tpl we used:

 

	{if $category eq NULL}
	{php}
		$basename=pathinfo($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]);
		$basename=$basename["basename"];
		if ($basename=="index.php")
		{
		echo(' SHOW HOMEPAGE ACTIVE ');
                       }
		else
		{
                         echo(' SHOW ACTIVE WHMCS PAGES E.G SUPPORT, KNOWLEDGEBASE ETC. ');
{/php}
{elseif  $category eq sharedhosting}
CODE FOR NAV WITH SHARED HOSTING ACTIVE
{/if}

 

Just repeating the elseif for however many categories you have. This might seem a little long winded, but its the only decent option I found that works.

[expandmind]

Hello,

 

I think there is a much easier way to this, with help from Mat WHMCS Support - Thank you,

 

" The variable $filename contains the current page the user is on so in the template files, you could for example do something like this:

 

<li{if $filename eq "announcements"} class="active"{/if}><a href="announcements.php">Announcements</a></li>

 

And with that, if the page was announcements, that menu option would be active. You can do the same for other page names aswell."

 

regards,

Alex

[EricHamby]

Hello,

 

I think there is a much easier way to this, with help from Mat WHMCS Support - Thank you,

 

" The variable $filename contains the current page the user is on so in the template files, you could for example do something like this:

 

<li{if $filename eq "announcements"} class="active"{/if}><a href="announcements.php">Announcements</a></li>

 

And with that, if the page was announcements, that menu option would be active. You can do the same for other page names aswell."

 

regards,

Alex

 

I see a issue with this however, some pages have the same filename, but different actions. So while this is easier... its also useless.

Edited May 5, 2010 by EricHamby

[expandmind]

I see a issue with this however, some pages have the same filename, but different actions. So while this is easier... its also useless.

 

using {if $filename eq "clientarea" and $smarty.get.action eq "details"} you can show as active the pages with same filename, but different actions..

 

Thank you,

Alex

[EricHamby]

now that works perfect

 

http://since83.com/clients/

[simplexwebs]

Ah, Thats certainly a lot easier than my method.

Thanks for this Alex.

 

 

Regards,

 

Rob

[expandmind]

you welcome!