Silly ASP question

RichB · 02 July 2009, 10:57

I'm a PHP developer so having to do ASP is not something I'm required to do often but in this instance we are bodging something...

I have a header file and in it is the nav, if the current page is aaa then aaa is highlighted in the nav so I do something if (thispage=="aaa") write class="this" on the href for example.

This all works fine but what I want to do is not have to edit all the other files to declare thispage. On the pages that I am changing, I am setting thispage="ho" for home or thispage="ab" for about etc.

Problem is that when I go to a page that I dont want a nav item highlighting, I get an error because I have not declared thispage. So how do I do this? I tried this in the header:

If not isdeclared("thispage") then
Dim thispage=""
End If

but that doesn't work... I get compilation errors.

Any help gratefully received!

Rich

boxst · 02 July 2009, 14:58

Looks okay to me (apart from the case).

What error do you get?

Steve

mykp · 03 July 2009, 16:15

surely this would be better

if isdeclared("thispage")<>"" then
Dim thispage=""
End If

what error are you getting?

AllenJ · 03 July 2009, 18:10

It'll be helpful to know what error you are getting, but you want to declare your variable out of the 'if' statement.

Is thisPage a variable ? If so, you don't need to have the double quotes, also where is the variable thisPage being set ?

Dim thisPage

If isDeclared("thisPage") <> "" then thisPage = ""

Has your 'isDeclared' function got an error catcher ?

NB: VBscript is not case sensitive but javascript is.