Website navigation

I have a navigation area that I am using include() to bring in some links so they show up on every page. I also want to have it so there is some type of marker on a link depending on what page you are on. How would I do this if all the links are being included from one source file but I want to apply CSS to a certain link?

 

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Hi Copernicus,

I'm not sure if I've got this right but you are including your navigation in a seperate file and you want to highlight a page if you're currently on it?

Assuming I've got that right here's what I do:

Firstly I have a template file for each individual link, it looks something like this:

<a href="{$URL}"{$ACTIVE}>{$TITLE}</a>

Code (markup):

Then I pull my list of pages from the database, for simplicity's sake I'll use an array for this example:

// Template string
$nav_tpl = '<a href="{$URL}"{$ACTIVE}>{$TITLE}</a>';

// Template variable to output
$navigation = '';

// Nav items
$navitems = array();
	$navitems[] = array(
		'url'	=>	'index.php',
		'title' => 	'Homepage'
	);
	$navitems[] = array(
		'url'	=>	'about.php',
		'title' => 	'About Us'
	);
	$navitems[] = array(
		'url'	=>	'contact.php',
		'title' => 	'Contact Us'
	);

// Loop through the array, cache the template 
// into $navigation and replace the details
foreach($navitems as $array)
{
	// Cache the template
	$navigation .= $nav_tpl;
	
	// Replace variables
	$navigation = str_replace('{$URL}', $array['url'], $navigation);
	$navigation = str_replace('{$TITLE}', $array['title'], $navigation);
	
	// Give the navitem class="active" if we're on that page, 
	// else remove {$ACTIVE}
	if(basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) == $array['url'])
	{
		$navigation = str_replace('{$ACTIVE}', ' class="active"', $navigation);
	}
	else
	{
		$navigation = str_replace('{$ACTIVE}', '', $navigation);
	}
}

echo($navigation);

PHP:

Hopefully you can get what I'm trying to do here