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 '<li ';

  if(basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])== basename($url)){   // this line
        echo "class='active'";                              // this line
   }                                                        // and this line
  echo '><a href=', "$url", '>', "$label", '</a></li>';
}
?>

Answer 2

<?php 

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] === "/page") echo 'id="active"'; 

?>

Answer 3

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

$cururl = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

foreach ($pages as $url => $label) {
  echo '<li';

  if (strpos($cururl,$url)!==false) {
    echo ' class="active"';
  }
  echo '><a href=', "$url", '>', "$label", '</a></li>';
}
?>

This should work for you. Because, you were trying to access the url address using GET-METHOD. Here, I have fetched your url by doing $cururl = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; and checked for the active menu item as if (strpos($cururl,$url)!==false)

Answer 4

Try this:

echo 'class="active"';

Answer 5

Not tested:

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

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

foreach ($pages as $url => $label) {
  echo '<li ';
  echo in_array($url, $uri)?'class="active"':'';
  echo '><a href="'.$url.'">'.$label.'</a></li>';
}
?>

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