Retrieving complete URL from page ($_GET[?]?)

[gjh42]

Correct. Getting the active ez-page link to highlight was trivial, but the internal link pages are another matter.

[Berserker]

Hello,

Im actually doing the same thing but for my custom navigation. I managed to get the category link button to be highlighted by using $current_category_id =='1 (or any number of the category)'. The problem is that this also highlights the home link button. Im not sure why this is. I have $current_page_base =='index' for the home link button. Is this correct? Any help would be great.

Thanks

[gjh42]

The trouble with $current_page_base =='index' is that category and product listing pages also are 'index'. You need a more particular method. Actually, $this_is_home_page is effective for that.

I would need to see what you have to offer more specific advice on other links.

[Berserker]

Thanks a lot!!! That sorted it :)

[gjh42]

I thought I had this mod complete, with internal links in the ez-pages menus highlighting correctly when active, but have discovered a situation that I can't explain.
This is the function:

//call as   active_page_class($var_linksList[$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;
} 

I have discovered that the two demo category pages I have enabled for footer links do not highlight when active.
Debug output gives this:
uri:/fr-zc139gfresh/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3_10
alt:/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3_10

The
$active = ((strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],$alturl)
should be finding the relative link ($alturl) in $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']. It is clearly there when the strings are echoed, but echoing the strstr() as shown gives null. I am at a loss to understand why these two apparently identical string parts are not being found to match.

I observe that these links contain an & while none of the correctly functioning ones do. Could this be related to the v1.3.9g HTML bug? (My local test site is currently v1.3.9g.) I have not edited anything in admin beyond the essentials.
One of the links which I opened to set the footer display (possibly more than once) now shows in view source
/index.php?main_page=index&amp;amp;cPath=21">Gift Certificates</a>
while the other shows the correct
/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=3_10">Action DVDs</a>
Neither of them highlights; of course, the defective one does not link correctly.

[gjh42]

Got it.

The strings are not identical because the ZC link has the ampersand coded as &amp; while the URI is just &. It doesn't show up when echoed to the page, but does when echoed to an HTML comment and looked at in view source.

[gjh42]

Amended line:

    $alturl = htmlspecialchars_decode(str_replace(HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG,'/',$alturl));