Including Menu In Certain Directories

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March 25th, 2003, 08:24 AM

INF

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Including Menu In Certain Directories

I'm including a template on all pages in a site. In the template I have a menu. What I'd like is to have a different menu displayed if I'm in a different directory.
Something along the lines of:

If path is /mainsite Then
Regular Menu
If path is /admin Then
Admin Menu

Just not sure about how to go about getting there. My first thought was to use the PATH_INFO server variable, but that returns the page name too.
Any suggestions?

March 25th, 2003, 02:33 PM

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For getting a path use server.Mappath()

depending how you setup your website you can also use server side inludes

ie.


and


The virtual include will require extra server setup to work properly

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March 27th, 2003, 01:56 AM

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you could also use the

Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME")

which will give a full path of the current page, starting at the root of the server "/" and you could use that to parse it and put all the if staments that u want

I hope this is of any help.

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March 28th, 2003, 02:54 PM

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Thanks guys.

Looks like I really need to practice my If Then Statements. I'm trying to do this without a page name, because there are many pages in each directory.

Although not the exact method I hoped to use, I did get the intended effect by just creating a variable called ShowMenu, then setting that to 1 on each page I want the menu to display on.

If you could show me a better way than I've done, it would be appreciated. Thanks again for your suggestions.

April 1st, 2003, 01:42 AM

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Try this code on for size.

Code:

<%
	dim strPath
	dim intPos
	strPath = lcase(Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME"))

	intPos = Instr(1,strPath,"/admin/")

	If intPos > 0 Then
		response.write("Admin")
	else
		response.write("Other")
	end if
%>

Including Menu In Certain Directories

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