Combining two menu items

simongdawson · Post by **simongdawson** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:15 am

Can you please show me how to combine the following two menu items into a single menu item with a line break between the displayed 'Users Online' and Users Today'. I have tried but am not knowledgeable enough with the required phrasing, and as a consequence cannot get it to work.

aI("text=<? include("g:/etc/etc/etc1.php");?>;status=The number of visitors to the-limes.com currently online;");
aI("text=<? include("g:/etc/etc/etc2.php");?>;status=The number of visitors to the-limes.com today;");

Post by **Andy** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:21 pm

Hi Simon,

Try something like this:

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aI("text=<? include("g:/websites/the-limes/htdocs/online/online.php"); ?><br><? include("g:/websites/the-limes/htdocs/online/today.php"); ?>;align=left");

If not, let me know and I'll dig a little deeper.

Hope this helps
Milonic Support

simongdawson · Post by **simongdawson** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:10 pm

Sorry, Andy, but I've tried your suggestion (and also tried a couple of minor changes) but I cannot get the second line to show. The test page is at http://www.the-limes.com/index2.html

Post by **Ruth** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:22 pm

Hi,

I know I don't know a thing about this but as I was playing around. I noticed in the 'produced' menu_data2.php file the line you see is

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aI("text=Users Online : 2;status=The number of visitors to the-limes.com currently online; >?<br>Users Today : 10;status=The number of visitors to the-limes.com today;");

and on the page all you get is the Users Online: 2.

What I did was remove the status= line since it's not part of the menu anymore and won't work. So, i changed it to

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aI("text=Users Online : 2; >?<br>Users Today : 10;");

and resaved the file, and the output when I looked at the page was

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Users Online: 2;
               >?
Users Today : 10

I realize that I am changing the generated file, but since it did output once the status was removed, though I don't know what is producing the >? in the outputting, I thought it might give you some ideas.

Ruth

simongdawson · Post by **simongdawson** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:52 pm

Thanks, Ruth. I've removed the 'status' stuff from the menus - I didn't realise it no longer worked in the menus (a retrograde step???). The combined two items are now working using the code:

aI("text=<? include("g:/websites/the-limes/htdocs/online/online.php")?><br><? include("g:/websites/the-limes/htdocs/online/today.php");?>;");

Post by **Ruth** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:15 am

Hi,

The status was removed with 5.751. It was seen as a security issue by internet security experts because of the way phishing attacks work and text being changed to indicate a trusted site. That feature has been disabled by default in all modern browsers as far as I know.

For all intents and purposes [well most purposes

] it doesn't matter if it's there since the menu program just ignores it. But, with your php code and combining those two it seemed to cause a problem probably something to do with the semi-colon I would bet.

I'm glad your code works now

Ruth