Topic: Page won't highlight the correct tab.

[deansmar]

have you also added in the Subs.php after the line:

   // Figure out which action we are doing so we can set the active tab.   // Default to home.

somthing simular to this

  elseif (isset($_REQUEST['page']) && $_REQUEST['page'] == 'Page-ID')       $current_action = 'Array-ID';

were page-ID would be brainmush
were array-ID would be brainmush

[cowboytns]

what is not Highlighting ??

- The home tab when I am on my homepage http://brainmush.net/forum2/home.php

what do you actualy mean by homepage ??

- my homepage is http://brainmush.net/forum2/home.php in contrast to the forum home which is http://brainmush.net/forum2/index.php

i suppose your going from one website, to a different website ?

- well sort of...I have pasted my homepage into the forum folders so that I can use the forum theme for my webpage.

when copying your URL into a browser and hit enter the home button of your Brainmush.net site is highlighted correct.

- no the "forum index" tab remains highlighted.

which tab do you want to highlight?

- I want the home tab to highlight.

the ID's are noramly all defined in the Subs.php




this is the code for the first menu item in subs.php:

Code: [Select]

$buttons = array(
'brainmush' => array(
'title' => $txt['home'],
'href' => 'http://brainmush.net/forum2/home.php?page=brainmush',
'show' => true,
                                'sp_page' => true,
'sub_buttons' => array(
),
'is_last' => $context['right_to_left'],
// 'target' => '_blank',
),

This is what is written after //Figure our which action we are doing...

Code: [Select]

// Figure out which action we are doing so we can set the active tab.
// Default to home.
$current_action = 'home';

if (isset($context['menu_buttons'][$context['current_action']]) && empty($context['menu_buttons'][$context['current_action']]['sp_page']))
      $current_action = $context['current_action'];
   elseif (empty($context['current_action']) && !empty($_REQUEST['page']) && isset($context['menu_buttons'][$_REQUEST['page']]))
      $current_action = $_REQUEST['page'];
elseif (isset($_REQUEST['page']) && $_REQUEST['page'] == 'Page-ID')       $current_action = 'Array-ID';
elseif ($context['current_action'] == 'search2')
$current_action = 'search';
elseif ($context['current_action'] == 'theme')
$current_action = isset($_REQUEST['sa']) && $_REQUEST['sa'] == 'pick' ? 'profile' : 'admin';
elseif ($context['current_action'] == 'register2')
$current_action = 'register';
elseif ($context['current_action'] == 'login2' || ($user_info['is_guest'] && $context['current_action'] == 'reminder'))
$current_action = 'login';

$context['menu_buttons'][$current_action]['active_button'] = true;

if (!$user_info['is_guest'] && $context['user']['unread_messages'] > 0 && isset($context['menu_buttons']['pm']))
{
$context['menu_buttons']['pm']['alttitle'] = $context['menu_buttons']['pm']['title'] . ' ['. $context['user']['unread_messages'] . ']';
$context['menu_buttons']['pm']['title'] .= ' [<strong>'. $context['user']['unread_messages'] . '</strong>]';
}
}

my hompage coding is on reply number 16

Any ideas?

Thanks

[deansmar]

yes lots of ideas..

your URL is : http://brainmush.net/forum2/home.php?page=brainmush

and not just :  http://brainmush.net/forum2/home.php

the home tab will only highlight if the page action is called

as i said, if you copy your URL into a browser http://brainmush.net/forum2/home.php?page=brainmush
your home page tab will highlight, which shows the fault lyies in your Subs.php


in your Subs.php you have not changed the Page-ID for branmush and you have not changed the Array-ID for branmush..

the line should look like this:

elseif (isset($_REQUEST['page']) && $_REQUEST['page'] == 'brainmush') //page-id
       $current_action = 'brainmush'; // Array-ID

[cowboytns]

Can you tell that it just got a little brighter in the room cause the light bulb just turned on!  I see what you are talking about now.  I misread what Nathaniel was saying, I thought he meant that somewhere in the coding of my homepage I had to define a page id...however, as you have pointed out here the page id is identified in the url itself.  Sorry I'm a little slow at this coding stuff. 

So I will redifine all of my links to load the url: http://brainmush.net/forum2/home/php?page=brainmush.  When I did that the home tab is highlighted when I go to the page.  I have also fixed the subs.php file per your suggestion as well.

Thank you so much for your help.

[deansmar]

i am by far no code brain...

its just that i had a simular problem, that i sorted my self with a little bit of reading of other posts.

it just supprises me that you are not using Simple Portal, but yet you have posted here.

all your answers are also ready available on the SMF forum, under this post.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=357796

but its nice to see you have understood, how the Subs.php works, hope the light stays on for a while longer.

you might want to change the Array concerning the "News Links" so that tab highlights when selecting one of the Sub arrays, its all explaind in the above link.