databound slide out menu 2

[charanch]

Hi there,

I don't know how to search for this and I'm Javascript challenged so hopefully somebody here can help me. I have a navigation bar with images for buttons. The site is ASP and data driven. There are three categories that have sub categories and the client wants me to create a slide out menu on mouseover of those three buttons. I have a script, but the catch is it has to pull from the categories in my database. Any thoughts, or links to point me to? Thanks in advance.

Charles Ranch

 

[Sheco]

You'll have to use the server-side ASP to dynamically write the client-side JavaScript... a simple example:
[tt]
function SimpleThing()
{
var msg = '<%Response.Write "String from ASP" %>';

alert(msg);
}
[/tt]

Most of the heavy-lifting will need to be done by client-side code.

 

[charanch]

Thanks Sheco. I'll give it a try.

 

[charanch]

Hi Sheco,

I have managed to get your example above working onmouseover. How do I get it to display something not in an alert box and not the document.write command? Is there a way to get a table to popup? What I have to do is get a submenu to display on mouseover from an image.

onmouseover="SimpleThing()"

I have to pull from a database, loop through and all that stuff. I simply can't find anything I need on the internet or I don't know how to search for it. If you have any ideas, please let me know. Thanks for your help.

 

[DotNetGnat]

this is one of the nice samples i have come across:

http://simplythebest.net/scripts/DHTML_scripts/dhtml_script_114a.html

shouldnt be hard enough to change it to pull the data from the database and replace with the menu items in the sample...give it a shot...

-DNG

 

[charanch]

Well, thank you very much, DotNet. I found another one right after I posted my question to Sheco. Obviously I don't know what I'm doing trying to program this JavaScript into my ASP page, but I'm getting there. Many thanks for your help!

 

[charanch]

If you don't mind, could you please help me make this dynamic. My client will be adding additional galleries and I'd like to display them as he adds them but I don't know how do build the code into this script.

var menu1=new Array()
menu1[0]='<a href="?galleryid=1">Engagement</a>'
menu1[1]='<a href="?galleryid=2">Bridal</a>'
menu1[2]='<a href="?galleryid=4">Ceremony</a>'
menu1[3]='<a href="?galleryid=5">Special Features</a>'

How would I do my loop in the middle of this script? Many thanks again for your help.

 

[DotNetGnat]

ok something like this...code not tested...

sql = "Select ID, name from mytable"
var menu1=new Array()
Dim i
i=0
do until rsobj.EOF
menu1='<a href="?galleryid=<%=rsObj("ID")"><<%=rsObj("name")%></a>'
i=i+1
rs.MoveNext
Loop

-DNG

 

[charanch]

Thank you very much. I figured out how to make it work.

 

[DotNetGnat]

glad to be of help...

-DNG