Wordpress Code Gurus' Please Help Me

I'll now suicide if i cant find this.. it has taken my whole day to sort this out

Problem

Wordpress Page sorting in header.php of my theme

the only code i found out in the whole template regarding page menu is in the header.php

<div id="menu">
	<ul>
		<li><a <?php if (is_home()) echo "class=\"active\""; ?> href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><span>Home</span></a></li>
		<?php
		$pages = get_pages();
		if ($pages) {
			foreach ($pages as $page) {
				$page_id = $page->ID;
   				$page_title = $page->post_title;
   				$page_name = $page->post_name;
   				if ($page_name == "archives") {
   					(is_page($page_id) || is_archive() || is_search() || is_single())?$selected = ' class="active"':$selected='';
   					echo "<li><a".$selected." href=\"".get_page_link($page_id)."\"><span>Archives</span></a></li>\n";
   				}
   				elseif($page_name == "about") {
   					(is_page($page_id))?$selected = ' class="active"':$selected='';
   					echo "<li><a".$selected." href=\"".get_page_link($page_id)."\"><span>About</span></a></li>\n";
   				}
   				elseif ($page_name == "contact") {
   					(is_page($page_id))?$selected = ' class="active"':$selected='';
   					echo "<li><a".$selected." href=\"".get_page_link($page_id)."\"><span>Contact</span></a></li>\n";
   				}
   				elseif ($page_name == "about_short") {/*ignore*/}
           	 	else {
            		(is_page($page_id))?$selected = ' class="active"':$selected='';
            		echo "<li><a".$selected." href=\"".get_page_link($page_id)."\"><span>$page_title</span></a></li>\n";
            	}
    		}
    	}
		?>
	</ul>
</div>

PHP:

Right now the pages are sorted in the menu by name. I simply want them to be sorted on page ID or page Order basis

Guys please help me out on this

 

If you are trying to put your pages in a certain order you can use this plugin called My Page Order:

http://geekyweekly.com/mypageorder

 

thats a horrible way to get your menu.

<?php
wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order'); ?>

That will do it for you and put it in page order not by name.

 

couldnt agree more buddy.. i didnt wrote this theme and i never wanted to use such theme.. but the theme itself looks great.. ill try your way but right now i dont think so it will work coz the theme guy wrote all this shit to highlight a selected page..

any more gurus around?

 

well, here you go.. am a guru myself..

posting here coz it may help other guys..

all i had to do was.. change this

$pages = get_pages();
        if ($pages) {
            foreach ($pages as $page) {

PHP:

to, this;

$pages = get_pages('sort_column=menu_order');
        if ($pages) {
            foreach ($pages as $page) {

PHP:

wordpress tags can be tricky..