[thelist] Efficient PHP?

[live4bacon at optonline.net]

Another one for the PHP experts out there:

I am just discovering the wonderful world of PHP and I am curious if you all could spare a moment to tell me what you think of the efficiency of the following SIMPLE code (this would exist on all 60+ and growing pages of our site) that generates the sites sidebar navigational links, which are specific to each section, and shows the current page in bold text of a different color.

Nothing groundbreaking here.

If you think this may be of some use to you or you would like to examine the full code I will gladly pass it along.

Thank you,
JP

Basically I have an array holding:
 1 an array of Page titles (for display in the sidebar of said section)
 2 an array holding the file name for said pages
 3 variable to hold the section graphic file
 4 variable to hold the root relative path to the section directory
 5 (OPTIONAL array to hold sub-section pages
 6 (OPTIONAL array to hold sub-section page filenames)

function show_sidebar($cur_section, $cur_page = "none")

DEFINE ARRAY OF SECTIONS AND SUBSEQUENT ITEMS

DISPLAY SIDEBAR:
echo '<a href="'.$secRoot.'"><img src="/common/images/page_elements/'.$graphic.'"></a><br>';
	if($arr_sbar_content[$cur_section]["pages"]){
		echo '<div class="sbar_pad"><span class="sbar_nav">';
		for ($i = 0; $i < count($arr_sbar_content[$cur_section]["pages"]); $i++){
			if($arr_sbar_content[$cur_section]["pages"][$i] == $cur_page){
				echo '<span class="current_page"><a href="'.$secRoot.$arr_sbar_content[$cur_section]["href"][$i].'">'.$arr_sbar_content[$cur_section]["pages"][$i].'</a><br></span>';
				}
			else{
				echo '<a href="'.$secRoot.$arr_sbar_content[$cur_section]["href"][$i].'">'.$arr_sbar_content[$cur_section]["pages"][$i].'</a><br>';
			}
		}
		echo '</span>';

ANOTHER IF STATEMENT FOR SUB-PAGES IF THEY EXIST goes here