RE: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow

2009-10-30 Thread MEM
-Original Message- From: MEM [mailto:tal...@gmail.com] Sent: terça-feira, 27 de Outubro de 2009 12:05 To: 'a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk' Cc: 'Jim Lucas'; 'php-general@lists.php.net' Subject: RE: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow Think

RE: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow

2009-10-27 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 10:25 +, MEM wrote: I think the term drop-menu is bad in this case, as essentially what you are saying is: 1) user is presented with the basic navigation menu 2) user clicks an item and page navigates somewhere else 3) because of the item user clicked in 2)

RE: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow

2009-10-27 Thread MEM
That sounds about right yeah. You could also get a little bit clever and only retrieve the rows from your db that will go to make the array elements you'll need. It doesn't make sense to retrieve a full product list each time someone visits the page, Ok. so you only need to retrieve those

RE: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow

2009-10-27 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 11:39 +, MEM wrote: That sounds about right yeah. You could also get a little bit clever and only retrieve the rows from your db that will go to make the array elements you'll need. It doesn't make sense to retrieve a full product list each time someone visits the

RE: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow

2009-10-27 Thread MEM
Think of it a bit like an online shop selling operating systems: 1) All the main OS's you sell are on the front page - Linux, MacOS Windows 2) User clicks on Linux, and is taken to the url /products/linux and they are shown all the Linux OS's on offer (Fedora, SuSe, Ubuntu, Knoppix, etc) 3)

Re: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow

2009-10-26 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 13:28 +, MEM wrote: Hello all, I'm on my way to build my first dynamic menu using php. However, each time I say this, people start jumping at me crying out loud: Jquery . I don't need js for this. Really. (At least, this is what I believe). So I was wondering

RE: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow

2009-10-26 Thread MEM
-feira, 26 de Outubro de 2009 14:38 To: MEM Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 13:28 +, MEM wrote: Hello all, I'm on my way to build my first dynamic menu using php. However

RE: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow

2009-10-26 Thread Ashley Sheridan
… Thanks a lot once again, Márcio From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: segunda-feira, 26 de Outubro de 2009 14:38 To: MEM Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding

Re: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow

2009-10-26 Thread Jim Lucas
: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: segunda-feira, 26 de Outubro de 2009 14:38 To: MEM Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 13:28 +, MEM wrote: Hello

Re: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow

2009-10-26 Thread Ashley Sheridan
with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 13:28 +, MEM wrote: Hello all, I'm on my way to build my first dynamic menu using php. However, each time I say this, people start jumping at me crying out loud: Jquery . I don't need

RE: [PHP] dynamic menu with show hide capabilities - understanding possible workflow

2009-10-26 Thread MEM
Thanks a lot for your replies. Let's see if I understand, if not, please, let me know, I'm not that proficient in English. Second try, in order to accomplish this, I have to: 1) Generate the multidimensional array from query. 2) Generate the ul / li menu (echo + foreach) displaying all