Active menu tabs with codeigniter

Question

Which method can be used in Codeigniter to achieve active menu tabs?

For example I have a user menu Profile Friends Messages Logout

When I\'m in th

Answer 1

As you said in your last paragraph, I would just check for the corresponding URI segment and change the style of the tab based on that.

Let's say you're using a foreach statement to generate your menu from a database:

   
    uri->segment(2) == url_title($menu_item->name, dash, TRUE)):?> class="active">>name;?>

The reason I threw url_title() in there is to make the name lowercase as the URI segment would be and take care of any possible spaces that may be in the menu name and/or URI segment. This would require the URL helper to be enabled. If they don't match, the default CSS for