how to add active to a tag and li tag with php

Question

Trying to get my PHP navigation bar to work. I am trying to echo the page where the user is on with the attached class of active if the page is current.

Here is my code

Answer 1

Not tested:

 "Home", 
    "contact.php" => "Contact Us", 
    "services.php" => "services", 
    "employees.php" => "Employees", 
    "dashboard.php" => "Dashboard");

$uri = explode("/", stripslashes($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));

foreach ($pages as $url => $label) {
  echo '
'.$label.'
';
}
?>

Note: it is a best practice to put your other page files in the root next to yout index.php