How to set current page “active” in php

Question

Hi I have a menu on my site on each page, I want to put it in it\'s own menu.php file but i\'m not sure how to set the class=\"active\" for whatever page i\

Answer 1

there is two things you can do.

first you can read the current filename of the php file you request by using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] or $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] or any other $_SERVER global variables that you can use to read your current page and compare it with the link's url, something like this

  class="activatepage"  >
       Öffnungszeiten
    

the second one is to create a variable that you can read globally that would store the current name of the current page, like this

class="activatepage"  >
 Öffnungszeiten