Need a way to create a simple page list in Word Press...

[sbonner]

I've been asking around and so far all I've gotten are snide answers.

Alright, here we go.

I want to be able to horizontally list pages in a custom manner, based on the top parent that the page belongs to. So, the form would be:

[ Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 ]

As opposed to:

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3

Furthermore, I need the list to always list the pages inside the top-level parent page. For example, say I had a page called "Cars". No matter WHAT page within "Cars" that I was in, if it was the Cars page itself or ANY sub-page, I would always get:

[ Toyota | Honda | Mazda | Ford ]

If I were to click over to another page, that say, belonged to "Planets" instead of "Cars", the new list would appear:

[ Mercury | Mars | Jupiter | Pluto ]



I've been trying to modify a theme to accomplish this, but everything I do seems to result in a fatal error of some sort. I know basic programming and troubleshooting (used to C/C++), but PHP is a whole new beast to me and I don't understand much of its syntax nor does it give me much to debug from. Please give me some guidance.

[lhyman]

Did you try looking at any of the DHTML menus from dynamic drive?

[mattura]

For horizontal lists, try styling the list elements with CSS using "display:inline;"
For the categories, I suggest you set up an array with the links in, and use php's foreach to cycle through it