Creating a Menu

Your online address book will contain several actions, so it makes sense to create a menu for your links. Listing 18.1 creates a menu for all the scripts you will create in this section, called mymenu.php.

Listing 18.1. Address Book Menu
 1: <html>
 2: <head>
 3: <title>My Address Book</title>
 4: </head>
 5: <body>
 6: <h1>My Address Book</h1>
 7:
 8: <P><strong>Management</strong>
 9: <ul>
10: <li><a href="addentry.php">Add an Entry</a>
11: <li><a href="delentry.php">Delete an Entry</a>
12: </ul>
13:
14: <P><strong>Viewing</strong>
15: <ul>
16: <li><a href="selentry.php">Select a Record</a>
17: </ul>
18: </body>
19: </html>

Figure 18.1 shows the output of Listing 18.1. You'll tackle each of these items in order, starting with “Add ...

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