Adding a menu on the left hand side

[shoobeedoodoo]

@Haelios, the menu on the left hand side is static html, I couldn't get the dynamic to work, as coppermine would stack everything below it, but now I'm interested in trying to use the return function instead of the include function, as alexisb had suggested.

[alexisb]

Now it's working for me, as I put in my last post: You have to return a value (in most cases is a string) from your function.

Regards!.

[Haelios]

Well done alexisb, you just solved my problem  :wink:

Just for the record, this was the code that I ended up using. I think it's pretty safe (just in case my dynamic page gets a bit big) but I'm sure that there is a better way to do it, so please let me know if you have a more cunning way.

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// Adds the left menu
function theme_chu_menu_left()
{
        //include_once('http://jcr.chu.cam.ac.uk/menu.php');
        $handle = fopen("http://jcr.chu.cam.ac.uk/menu.php", "r");
        $leftmenu = "";
       
        do {
           $lmdata = fread($handle, 8192);
           if (strlen($lmdata) == 0) {
                   break;
           }
           $leftmenu .= $lmdata;
        } while (true);
        fclose($handle);
       
        return $leftmenu;
}


Thanks again gaugau for the help

Sid

[Joachim Müller]

haven't tested, but you could try this:

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// Adds the left menu
function theme_chu_menu_left()
{
   $leftmenu = "";
   ob_start();
   include_once('http://jcr.chu.cam.ac.uk/menu.php');
   $leftmenu = ob_get_contents();
   ob_end_clean();    
   return $leftmenu;
}GauGau