#categories li a.cat-selected-text but for EZPAGES

[gjh42]

I posted a request and got a good lead from some members who know PHP better than I do.

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] gives what we are looking for here. I knew I had seen something that did it, but was focused on $_GET.

So, going back to my original set of files in post #28 (and adding the global statement),

function active_page_class($ezpid,$alturl) {
  global $current_page_base; 
  $active = '';
  if($current_page_base == 'page') { 
    $active = ($_GET['id'] == $ezpid)? ' class="activeEZPage"': '';
  }elseif($alturl) {//check for current page in alturl
    $active = ((strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$alturl) and (strstr($alturl,'/index.php') != '/index.php')) or ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == $alturl))?' class="activeILPage"': '';
  }
  return $active;
} 

This is the only edit that should be needed to those files.

[e81ny]

Hmmm.. Still the same.

(I use all the codes in post #28 except the "ezpages_improved_menus_functions.php" )

[gjh42]

Oh well, debug time again.
echo ' url='.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],' alturl='.$alturl;//debug

  }elseif($alturl) {//check for current page in alturl
    echo ' url='.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],' alturl='.$alturl;//debug
    $active = ((strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$alturl) and (strstr($alturl,'/index.php') != '/index.php')) or ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == $alturl))?' class="activeILPage"': '';
  } 

[e81ny]

Have a look. Thanks, Glenn.

[gjh42]

url=/index.php?main_page=index alturl=http://www.oligoskincare.com/index.php?main_page=index

The $_SERVER is giving everything *after* the shop base, so the $alturl will have to be tweaked to match that. Once that is done, I think it will actually work correctly.

[gjh42]

  }elseif($alturl) {//check for current page in alturl
    $alturl = '/' . str_replace(HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG,'',$alturl);//strip root info, put back initial / to match $_SERVER format
    echo ' url='.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],' alturl='.$alturl;//debug
    $active = ((strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$alturl) and (strstr($alturl,'/index.php') != '/index.php')) or ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == $alturl))?' class="activeILPage"': '';
  } 

Now let's see what we get...

[e81ny]

YES!!! You did it!!

Thank you so much, Glenn!

[gjh42]

There's still a bit of finessing to do to make the homepage link highlighting more robust, as there are several ways it can show in the address bar, but overall I'm happy with it. The next stage is to extend it to the ez-pages footer menu, and possibly the footer columns mod that I developed locally.

[e81ny]

Glenn,

I want to thank you again for all your help. I really appreciate it!

I understand that it is not perfect, but I'm satisfied with it over all. Some are really strange, such as:

when you list products by manufacturers:
http://tinyurl.com/2djx2u4

and the "Home" is highlighted (bold and in light blue color). This happens also when you go to a sub-category product list page.

But, I'm happy with what you have and could have done.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

[gjh42]

I played with it some more after my last post, and I believe this solves the false positives for home page:

<?php
/**
 *
 * @copyright Copyright 2010 Glenn Herbert
 * @copyright Portions Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
 * @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
 * @license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ GNU Public License V3.0
 * @version $Id: /includes/functions/extra_functions/ezpages_improved_menus_functions.php 
 *Ezpages Improved Menus by Glenn Herbert (gjh42) 2010-08-31
 */

//call as   activePageClass($var_linksList[$i]['id'],$var_linksList[$i]['altURL']);
function active_page_class($ezpid,$alturl) {
  global $this_is_home_page;
  $active = '';
  if($_GET['main_page'] == 'page') {
    $active = ($_GET['id'] == $ezpid)? ' class="activeEZPage"': '';
  }elseif($alturl) {
    $alturl = str_replace(HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG,'/',$alturl);
    $active = ((strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$alturl) and !strstr('/index.php?main_page=index',$alturl)) or ($this_is_home_page and strstr('/index.php?main_page=index',$alturl)))?' class="activeILPage"': '';
  }
  return $active;
}
?>