Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

[navaldesign]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

No, you can't see the menu in preview. It uses php, so it will only show when BOTH the page and the MENU page are published on the server.

[dougnez]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Hi... Is it possible call up and entire page.html utizing this type of php ... Thanks Doug

[Bethers]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Doug your page can be either .html or .php - not both. So, to do this, you'd build the website as .php instead. It wouldn't effect hot you built the page - if that's what is confusing you.

[SherylT]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Okay you PHP Experts . . . I decided to go ahead and try to make a PHP menu, and I think I almost got it! I set up menu on brand new page just the way you said. I'm not using just text, I've got "buttons". After putting in all the links and alt text, I saved and published the first page. When I view it, not of my alt tags are showing up, only the .html page link as an alt tag. In order to use PHP in a menu, do I have to use "text only"?

[Collectors-info]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Hi, not sure if i have this right? but have you published your menu page as a .php & not .html?

[dougnez]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Hi.. Hey Naval.. I publish menu.php...place the html callup box on my index page... publish index.php.... then go to see mysite.com...and I see a blank white ... right click... blank white... I know I'm close ... but what am I missing?? ...all that's on this site are.. images..index.php..menu.php... and jscookmenu.js... Thanks Doug

[SherylT]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Yes Chris, I did publish as PHP. When I set up my navigation "menu" on it's separate page, I put in "alt tags" for my buttons. I then published both menu page and index page in PHP. When I put the mouse over the buttons, all I see is a tag for the html page, not what I typed for copy.

Example: I put in tag saying "Cartoon Designs", but mouseover shows cartoondesigns.html

I thought "alt tags" might not show up if I'm using buttons for menu.

[Bethers]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Sheryl, the buttons are images and alt does show up - which is a good thing and is correct. However, if you have done the naviagion as php - you best not have an alt tag showing .html - cuz all your pages now need to be .php.

If you want to send me the page, I'll look at it and diagnose it.

[SherylT]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Okay Beth . . . here I go needing help again. Sooner or later (sooner I hope) I'll get this the right way.

Here is the index page: http://cust-m-cartoons.custmcartoons.com

On my "menu.php" page, when I view the Navigation Bar properties, they all the page links show .php on the end. Can't figure out why it doesn't show up after I publish.

Here's the link for the menu page: http://cust-m-cartoons.custmcartoons.com/menu.php

As always, I am grateful for your help.

[SherylT]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Just thought of something (that's pretty scary). Do I have to go into my control panel and delete all the previous .html pages?

If I type a page with .php extension in my address bar it comes up and the menu bar has all .php tags!

[navaldesign]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

No, but you need to delete at LEAST the index page, otherwise the html page instead of the php will show up.

As for the rest of your pages, you can delete them or not, however, leaving them there will only confuse you further.

Please also note that noone can see your menu page (it will simply show a blank page) because the way it is built, it is a php function, that will only display when you call it from within your pages.

[SherylT]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Thanks so much. Learning PHP is new to me, but I think once I get the hang of it, it will be great!

[Bethers]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

I'm nervous here about something - you are making all your links, etc with the name as it is now - you do realize you'll have to change all of them when you're ready to move?

You aren't doing this the way I thought and I just saw now how you have them named.

[SherylT]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Yikes Beth! What should I be doing? How should I be making the links? I thought the only way I could publish and test was to use the custmcartoons.com with the add-on. I'll stop what I'm doing until I hear what to do.

[navaldesign]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

There is a very simple way to avoid the links problem: make the links relative:

Instead of typing, for a link, i.e. http://cust-m-cartoons.custmcartoons...oondesigns.php make it simply "cartoondesigns.php" and you are done.