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[IIMarckus]

Hey guys,

My goal is to have this output:

<div> - <a href="index.php">Index</a> - <a href="about.php">About</a> - <a href="etc.php">Etc</a> -</div>

Here's my table:

name  priority  url  english

main  1         index Home

about 2         about About

more  3         etc  Etc

Here's my code:

//displays the links at the top of the page

function pagemenu($language){

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM lang_text_pagenames ORDER BY priority") or die(mysql_error());


echo("<div> -");

while($menuitem = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {

echo(" <a href=\"".$root_dir.$menuitem['url'].".php\">".$menuitem[$language]."</a> -");}

echo("</div>");

}

$root_dir is just './'; $language is e.g. 'English'. And here's what I get:

<div> - <a href="index.php"></a> - <a href="about.php"></a> - <a href="etc.php"></a> -</div>

What am I doing wrong?

[John]

Well in the example above $language is 'english' not 'English' - not sure if thats a typo, but that will make a difference.

[IIMarckus]

Sidewinder said:

Well in the example above $language is 'english' not 'English' - not sure if thats a typo, but that will make a difference.

Although I'm quite sure that I named the column 'English', but it is indeed in all lowercase now. Does PHP have a tolower() function or equivalent that I could use?

EDIT: strtolower() is what I'm looking for. Thanks.

[John]

Did that fix the problem, or should I look for something else?

[IIMarckus]

Yeah, that fixed it. Thanks for reminding me about case sensitivity, though; that can be pretty hard to see.