CodeIgniter: How to 'highlight' the link of the page the user is currently on?

Question

Fairly new to CodeIgniter, still grasping the MVC approach. I\'m just wondering what\'s the best way to solve this:

I got my navigation bar highlighting the currentl

Answer 1

I used @Calle example, worked really well... I did have to use a custom url grabber instead of the CI current_url() as I'm bypassing the index.php file with .htaccess. I have also added the correct attribute tag.

Notes for beginners I crated this file in 'helpers' called 'menu_helper.php' and loaded it via the controller $this->load->helper('menu');

helpers/menu_helper.php

if ( ! function_exists('menu_anchor'))
{
    function menu_anchor($uri = '', $title = '', $attributes = '')
    {
        $title = (string) $title;

        if ( ! is_array($uri))
        {
            $site_url = ( ! preg_match('!^\w+://! i', $uri)) ? site_url($uri) : $uri;
        }
        else
        {
            $site_url = site_url($uri);
        }

        if ($title == '')
        {
            $title = $site_url;
        }

        if ($attributes != '')
        {
            $attributes = _parse_attributes($attributes);
        }

        $current_url = (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) ? "https://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] : "http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
        $attributes .= ($site_url == $current_url) ? 'class="active"' : 'class="normal"';


        return ''.$title.'';
    }
}

The view file:

The css:

ul.topnav li.topnav-1 a.active { something clever }