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or any other HTML tags around the PHP include sections. Modify the file head.php in the menu directory to put in whatever you want to the left and right of the menu instead of the texts "(Left side decoration here)" and "(Right side decoration here)". If you want no extra text, logos or links here, just write in place. Modify the file menu.txt in the menu directory to specify your menu structure. Make one line for each entry in the menu. A typical line may look like this: ..page 1.2|/BASEDIR/page12.php|#0|+ The line contains the following elements: ----------------------------------------- 1. A number of dots to indicate the depth in the tree structure. If page 1.2 is in a submenu under page 1, then page 1.2 should have one more dot than page 1. The number of dots at the beginning of any line should not exceed the number of dots at the preceding line plus one. 2. The title of the page. This is the link text to show in the menu 3. The link. This is the link as you would write it in an tag. Don't use relative addresses (without slash) unless you have all your pages in the same directory. Even if this is the case, it is still recommended to use absolute addresses (beginning with a slash). If the link goes to a page on a different domain, precede it with http://. You may omit the link for branch headings that have no associated page. 4. Any bookmark. The bookmark #0 will point to the beginning of the page text, just after the menu. 5. A + sign or target. The + sign indicates that the link goes to another page within the same menu system. Remove the + sign if the link goes to a page outside the menu system. If you are using frames, you may put a target here. It is not recommended to use frames, though. Item 2, 3, 4, and 5 are separated by vertical bars (|). You may edit menu.txt again any time you are adding new pages or changing the menu structure. You may edit the stylesheet file screen.css to change colors, fonts, margins, etc. The extra stylesheet file print.css controls how the pages will look when printed out on paper. You probably want the printout to be black on white. The line: .menu{display:none} removes the menus completely from the printout. The bar at the bottom of each page with links to Previous and Next is made in tail.php. If you don't want this bar, remove everything except the first line (containing "") from tail.php. You may change what Previous and Next point to by manipulating the php variables $previous and $next. Technical notes =============== The ?e= parameter that you get in the URL when clicking on a menu item is a parameter that indicates which branches to expand in the menu tree. This parameter is not needed when linking from somewhere else to a page in the menu system. The #0 bookmark takes you to the beginning of the text just after the menu. The #i bookmark, or no bookmark at all, takes you to the top of the page. The file index.php in the menu directory gives an expanded menu without any ?e= parameters. This is intended for searh engines such as AltaVista, Google, etc. The robots of these search engines should not see the ?e= parameters because they would either ignore such links, or store multiple instances of the same page with different ?e= parameters. In order to avoid this problem, the system replaces the menu with a link to the menu index page when seen by a search robot. Unfortunately, there is no standard for identifying search robots. The code in menu.php simply uses a list of the names of known search robots. You may edit this list. File list ========= /BASEDIR/read-me.txt This file /BASEDIR/index.php Start page /BASEDIR/page11.php, etc. Test pages. Replace by your own pages /BASEDIR/screen.css Style sheet defining colors etc. /BASEDIR/print.css Style sheet defining printout /BASEDIR/menu/*.gif Images for drawing menu tree /BASEDIR/menu/menu.txt Defines tree structure /BASEDIR/menu/menu.php Code to generate menu tree /BASEDIR/menu/head.php Layout for top menu /BASEDIR/menu/tail.php Layout for bottom menu /BASEDIR/menu/index.php Simple menu for search engines