currentpage class for news items - SOLVED

mantispirate · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:33 pm

Hello,
Im using:
CMS Made Simple 1.0.4
News Module 2.2

When you are on a news "detail" page (ie - you hit "more info" on a news item) on my site I have a menu of the other news item that are in the same category. What I would like to do is have the "currentpage" class passed to the tag of the link for the page you are currently on (like the MenuManager does).

The only way I could think to do this is to compare the address of the page (in the address bar) to the entry->link of the item.

This is what I have in my template for the menu of news items:

Code:

{php}
$currentdomain = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$currenturl = "http://" . $currentdomain . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
#echo $currenturl;

function giveClass(){
if($entry->link == $currenturl)
 {
   $theClass = "class=\"currentpage\"";
}
echo $theClass;
}
{/php}

<ul>
{foreach from=$items item=entry}
<li>{if $entry->link}<a href="{$entry->link}" {php}giveClass(){/php} >{$entry->title}</a>{/if}</li>
{/foreach}
</ul>

What it is doing is giving every link the "currentpage" class.
You can see an example here: http://www.mantispirate.com/flash/jacques-ferber-intro-13/

What am I doing wrong?

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

mantispirate · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:42 pm

Im beginning to think I might be going about this all wrong. Not sure of any other way to do it though.
Can somebody let me know if Im even in the right ballpark on this?

mantispirate · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:54 am

Well it took me all weekend and a crash course in smarty but I now have sub menus in my "news" pages that correctly mark the page you are on.

This is what my sub menu template now looks like

Code:

<ul>
{foreach from=$items item=entry}
<li><a href="{$entry->link}" 
{php}
$currentdomain = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$currenturl = "http://" . $currentdomain . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$this->assign('theURL', $currenturl);
{/php}
{if $entry->link == $theURL}class="currentpage"{/if}>{$entry->title}</a></li>
{/foreach}
</ul>

I'm sure there is a cleaner way to do this, but it works for me.
And now it is time to sleep.

currentpage class for news items - SOLVED

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