Nested Menus - How To?

How to generate a nested template using PHP?

[shafaki]

In each of my .php web pages I include("menu.php") which contains a menu of links to my web site pages.

How can I modify this simple model (without using a database) in order to create a nested template?

Do I have to create a different menu.php file for each group of second level pages? Or can I accomplish a two level menu with a single menu.php file (and still without using a database)?

[coopster]

Could you clarify what you mean by the nested template? Is the menu not the same for all pages?

[shafaki]

By nested I mean that the menu expands into several submenus.

[coopster]

You could do this a number of ways. My personal preference would be to keep it all in one file and use logic to display the expanded portions if necessary. Another option is to use pop-out submenus as opposed to expanded menus.

[ytswy]

$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] maybe the predefined variable that your looking for - it will give the filename (relative to the document root) of the page that the menu has been included on, you can then use that to determine which sub-menu(s) to display.