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Album nav list - highlighting active item

Using the gallery app. I have an image list of albums using 'a_list_image.html' on a page in a left column. On the right column I have a text list of albums using 'a_album.html'.

In the right column, how can I highlight the active album in the list?

Thanks
Chris James

Chris James 0 points

  • 7 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

7 years ago

How do you know which is the active album? Is there something on the URL at that point?
Chris James

Chris James 0 points

7 years ago

Yes it seems so. So when Im in an album the url for album 'paintings' shows:

https://mywebsite.com/album.php?s=album-paintings

...although the client will name the album whatever they wish.
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

7 years ago

Ok, so you could pass that into the template using

PerchSystem::set_var('current_album', perch_get('s'));

Then in your template:

<perch:if id="albumSlug" match="eq" value="{current_album}">
    this is the current album
</perch:if>
Chris James

Chris James 0 points

7 years ago

Ok I'll try that but I'm not clear where I'm putting

PerchSystem::set_var('current_album', perch_get('s'));

??
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

7 years ago

In your page before the Gallery function.