trying to make a menu

[BoYgAB90]

im trying to make a menu that when you click on it it updates one section of the page and the rest is the same
i dont know how to do this with menu manger so i got this php code but the problem is when i click on a link it just goes back to the homepage of the site
or if i can do the same thing using menu manager it would be better

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   // Define our array of allowed $_GET values

        $pass = array('category1','category2','category3','default');


    // If the page is allowed, include it:

        if (in_array($_GET['cat'], $pass)) {
include('uploads/videos/' . $_GET['cat'] . 'php');
        } 

    // This will load the default page:
        elseif (!isset($_GET['cat'])) {
            include ('uploads/videos/default.php'); 
        }

    // If the page is not allowed, send them to an error page:
        else {
                // This send the 404 header
                    header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
                // This includes the error page
                    include ('error.php');
        }

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<a href="index.php?cat=category1">category1</a>

the default pages works but not the links, just goes to home page with url .../index.php?cat=category1
but it works on my computer which is not using cmsms

[Vin]

I'm not sure what exactly you want to achieve - do you want to have a menu, which - when a link is activated - expands the active parent section link and shows its child links? Then try playing with the attribute collapse. Have you looked in the documentation - http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/User_Handbook/Admin_Panel/Layout/Menu_Manager#Generic_sub-menu?

[BoYgAB90]

no an example is http://www.igzones.com  and click on the menu and pick a page other than forum, my script does the same thing they do but it isnt working right with cmsms but it is without cmsms

[Vin]

Just a simple navigation without ANY hierarchy? Then it's actually very easy
I think there is a file template called minimal_template.tpl or-something-like-that in the default install in the menu manager, which would suit this case of minimal navigation.
However, if I get it, you're asking whether it's possible to update just a part of the page. Yes, of course, it's even intended. That's what the templates are for - to define a common HTML code for all/a group of pages, and then to place Smarty placeholders where you want to place the {content} of the current page, the {menu}, possibly with some optional parametres (see help). But you can leave there other stuff such as {news} etc. Many of the modules have the tag output for the template. And to have a better structured template, you can use GCB (Global Content Block), which is a wrapper for a content you want to have in the template, but  to be able to modify it somewhere else in order to have well-arranged template.

Hope that helps.