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[Daniel Krook]

>Hiya folks.. was juts sitting here wondering if there was a way to make a
>jump menu that got its info from a flat file.


Certainly is possible, try something like this...

<?php

function drawNav () {
      // items.txt would look like this:
      // http://ibm.com/|IBM.com
      // http://google.com/|Google
      $lines = file('items.txt');
      $html = '<select onchange="go(this);"></select>';

      foreach ($lines as $line) {
            $items = explode('|', $line);
            $html .= sprintf('<option value="' . $items[0] . '">' .
$items[1] . '</option>');
      }

      echo ($html . '</select>');
}



The JavaScript function in the select tag is:

/**
 * Jumps to the selected item in the dropdown list .
 */
function go (dropdown) {
             location.href =
dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value;
}







Daniel Krook, Application Developer
WW Web Production Services North 2, ibm.com
1133 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, NY 10604

Personal: http://info.krook.org/
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