Navigation bar maintaining problem

[joe2]

hi,

we are developing a website of around 2000 pages.We are facing problem in maintaining the navigation bar.

We use windows machine to develop the website and we are hosting our site on linux machine.If we use ssi for navigation links,we will have to change the attribute of every file.i think it would be difficult to change the attribute of every file.

Please suggest ,how can i maintain my navigation bar in easy and technically correct manner.

Thanks in advance.

[Mordecai]

Assuming every page has the ability to use PHP, you can do either of two things:
store links in a database and echo them out when the time is needed
use an include file to include the set of links

Or, mix them (probably better of the two)-- include a file that retrieves links from a database. This way, you can change the way the links work without having to edit every file or every database entry.

Hope this helps.

[joe2]

Thanks a lot,