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[presson83]

Hi All,

I'm wanting to add an active class to my navbar links. Obviously this class is only applied to the active page's li tag, so I need to be able to change my navbar depending on the page.

I currently have my nav code located in head.tpl which is called from customer/home.tpl. Since all the pages use customer/home.tpl (other than the shopping cart pages which use modules/fast lane checkout/home.tpl), I'm having trouble thinking of a way to make the navbar unique on each page. I'm sure there must be a way with smarty templates, I'm just not very versed in their usage.

Any help with adding an active class to a diff li element depending on the page would be MUCH appreciated!

-Nick

[ARW VISIONS]

which pages do you have in teh nav bar?

[presson83]

My individual product pages, my contact page, and two static pages (also my shopping cart area, but that part I figured out because it uses a totally different template than the rest of my pages, so I made a unique head.tpl for that template which has the active class set properly for the shopping cart pages.)

[ARW VISIONS]

you are going to use if and elseif statements

MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP FIRST!!!!!



{if $page_data.pageid eq 8}

Your content

{elseif $smarty.get.section eq "contactus"}

your content

{elseif $cat eq 381}

your content
{/if}

replace the 8 with your page ids
and 381 ith your cat id.

this is a start. you will have to play with this to get it right.

Ash

[presson83]

Awesome Ashley, thanks. I will play with some if else statements in my head.tpl file that includes my nav bar and see what I can come up with. Thank-you so much for your help!

-Nick

[presson83]

It worked perfectly Ashley, Thank-you SO much!

[presson83]

One last question - my active class works for when you have something in the shopping cart - because that's when it changes templates to the fast_lane_checkout template. When there's nothing in your cart however, the template is the same, therefore I need to write another elseif statement for the cart page. My attempts have been like this :

{elseif $page_data eq "cart"}
{elseif $page_data eq "shoppingcart"}
{elseif $page eq "cart"}
{elseif $page eq "shoppingcart"}

etc. etc. none of which have worked. I'm simply trying to get ahold of cart.php - any help is much appreciated!

[ARW VISIONS]

try $main eq "cart"

[ARW VISIONS]

the page_data variable is only for static pages.

[presson83]

Perfection! Thanks Ash. I knew I had seen the cart referred to like that..just couldn't remember that $main portion. Worked like a charm!