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

Do like this :

$pages = array(
    "index.php" => "Home", 
    "pages/contact.php" => "Contact Us", 
    "pages/services.php" => "services", 
    "pages/employees.php" => "Employees", 
    "pages/dashboard.php" => "Dashboard");

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