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

I have done it with php in this way,

function createTopNav($active)
{
    $pages = array(
        array(
            'name'=>'Home',
            'link'=>'index'
        ),
        array(
            'name'=>'Smartphone',
            'link'=>'smartphone'
        ),
        array(
            'name'=>'Tablet',
            'link'=>'tablet'
        ),
        array(
            'name'=>'About Us',
            'link'=>'about'
        ),
        array(
            'name'=>'Contact Us',
            'link'=>'contact'
        )
    );
    $res = "
";
    $activePage = "";
    foreach($pages as $key=>$val)
    {
        if($val['link']==$active)
        {
            $res.= "
".$val['name']."
";
        }
        else
        {
            $res.= "
".$val['name']."
";          
        }
    }
    $res.="
";
    return $res;
}

And then to call this function

echo createTopNav("about");

and the output will be like this

   
Home
   
Smartphone
   
Tablet
   
About Us
   
Contact Us