Um...er.......Ok! *raised eyebrow*!

There is so much in this that I don't understand, I will need to play with it and read a lot before making useful comment, except to say that the values for the links are derived from the (single) passed parameter, rather than being directly extracted from them.

Its (currently) actually a relative path into the file system and the list is the list of subdirectories below the past relative path (specifically excluding ".." to prevent backing up passed the starting point; and taint will be used once I get around to understanding it!).

It will eventually (probably) be a key (pointer) into a hiarchical tree in a DB.

In reply to Re: (jeffa) 3Re: Using list elements within lists contexts with the distributive properties of HTML shortcuts by Anonymous Monk
in thread Using list elements within lists contexts with the distributive properties of HTML shortcuts by Anonymous Monk

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