Navigation bar with drop-down menus

[hubcat]

Greetings,

 

I'm looking to change the navigation bar that comes standard with osCommerce (I believe it's called "breadcrumb"). I need something that will allow me to use drop-down menus.

 

I've searched the forums and the only reference I found was to one at www.milonic.com, but it's in Javascript. I was hoping to get a free one in PHP so I don't have to learn yet another language and I also don't know if my host supports Javascript.

 

Thanks in advance for any help! :)

 

Forever learning,

Jeff

[tina_boots]

Greetings,

 

I'm looking to change the navigation bar that comes standard with osCommerce (I believe it's called "breadcrumb").  I need something that will allow me to use drop-down menus.

 

I've searched the forums and the only reference I found was to one at www.milonic.com, but it's in Javascript.  I was hoping to get a free one in PHP so I don't have to learn yet another language and I also don't know if my host supports Javascript.

 

Thanks in advance for any help!  :)

 

Forever learning,

Jeff

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Hello,

 

Any drop down style menu is almost always going to based in JavaScript. Its possible to use PHP to generate a drop down menu, but the resulting code would still be JavaScript. In fact just about anything that is ever done on a web page which is dynamic is usually done with JavaScript.

 

JavaScript is also a client side script, just like HTML. Which means its a function of the browser to run it. Most browsers past version 4 are capible of running. Of course the user also has the ability to turn it off as well. For that reason its always a good idea to have some alternate form of navigation if you do use a dropdown style menu. For example links at the bottom of the page.

 

Be well,

 

Tina

[Dez]

Hello Jeff,

 

All web hosts support Javascript. Also, every menu that you can find that's similar to what you posted above is going to use Javascript. It really isn't hard to set one of them up - most of the ones that are available for free come with great instructions. You aren't going to have to learn a new programming language to use them; it's usually as simple as copying and pasting some code and changing the text that you want displayed. I recommend checking Hotscripts in their Javascript section - they have tons of different types of menus there.

[hubcat]

Thank you both very much for your help! :D