Active Links on a PHP menu

[tspore]

Hey guys,

I have created a php menu on my site.

Basically all I have done, for each page is simply make a header.php, menu.php, and footer.php. For simplicity later to modify content.

But I can't figure out how to get the page that I am on to show the active page in the menu. (You know I changed the css to remove the underline on that page, and be a different color. )

So right now on this page:

http://fourthirdsphoto.com/special/e3links.php

but the link is to that page is the same color as every other page.

[~n[EO]n~]

Ok, do like this ::

 

You have included (menu.php) in other pages so, do like this

 

suppose i have a page index.php there you keep one variable

 

<?php

$is_index_page = TRUE; 

?>

 

and then in menu.php file check if the variable is set, if it is set apply one css (with the color, hover whatever you want) else apply other style , same for other links too...

 

<?php if(isset($is_index_page)) { ?>
                          <td class="homepage_on_style">YOU ARE IN HOME PAGE</td>
					 <?php } 
					 else 
					 {
					 ?>
					 <td class="homepage_off_style"><a href="index.php" class="classic">ACCUEIL</a></td>
					 <?php 
					 } 
					 ?>

 

[bronzemonkey]

In my header.php file I have this:

 

<?php
$page = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$active = ' class="active"';
?>

 

And then my menu links are like this:

 

<?php
echo "<a";
if($page == '/index.php' ) {
echo($active);
}
echo " href=\"/index.php\" title=\"Link title\">Home</a>\n";
?>

 

Just replace /index.php with the link to each page. There may well be better ways, I don't know much about php, but no one in the php forum provided me with anything better. Use it if it works for you...or until someone shows you something better.