Creating an IE-Only Database Driven Menu System With PHP, MySQL and DHTML

Hi every one.

I'm newbie in php and mysql. I hope som one can help me.

I have read article"Creating an IE-Only Database Driven Menu System With PHP, MySQL and DHTML" by Annette Tennison.

The menu system is nice, but it seem avanced for me. I just want to maker a simple menu system with text and comnination with php and mysql. Can some one tell me:

- How can I close plus/minus images (just do not want use images, only text )?

- How can I maker example: "Home" without child_td and with a link me back to index.php ?

- The source code uses images to point out when we click on to expand/collapse the menu items, how can I maker expand / collapse with only text without the images?

The exactly my menu look like:

Home -----> with a link, this link me back to index.php

Parent1
Child_1 of parent1 ------> with a link, this link me another pages.
Child_2 of parent1 ------> with a link, this link me another pages.
Child_2 of parent1 ------> with a link, this link me another pages.

Parent2
Child_1 of parent2 ------> with a link, this link me another pages.
Child_2 of parent2 ------> with a link, this link me another pages.
Child_3 of parent2 ------> with a link, this link me another pages.

Parent3

Parent4

So you can see, when I click on parent1 and parent2 so it expand the child_menu. If I click on parent1 and parent2 so they collpase the child_menu.

Please help. Best regards. ChiDung.

hmm,..without reloading the page, your still going to need javascript or dhtml.

now you could use just php to expand/collapse the trees but the only way to do it with php is to reload the page after each click.

If you want a really cool cross-browser javascript to handle expanding and collapsing nav, check out http://www.dhtmlkitchen.com/scripts/animtree/index.jsp. This is the best such script I've seen out there, and the author is available at very reasonable rates to help customize it. I think there's a small licensing fee, but for good cross-browser nav, I'd say it's probably worth it. This is just a js, but I suspect the author'd be happy to help write code to generate the DIV tags from a database if need be (though that's really pretty simple to do).

Hi, dhouston.

Thanks for mail.

I have visit the link you have show me: URL But get 404.html.
By away, I just like maker a simple text menu with combination with html, javascript, php and mysql.

Best regards. ChiDung

Looks like the forum included the period in the link I pasted in. If you're interested in viewing the site, just remove the period from the end of the link once you click on it and get the 404. Actually, I'll go back and edit the link for future viewers as well.