I'm not entirely sure if this is even possible, but I'll try my best to explain my dilemma.
A website I'm working on has a header that contains links to important pages. The header html code resides in one file, which is included (php include) in all other pages.
This header.html consists of this code:
<li class="m1">Home</li>
<li class="m2">FAQs</li>
<li class="m3">Status</li>
<li class="m4">Contact Us</li>
The page currently open is meant to have its class set to "active", but this doesn't work since my header code resides in just one file.
Is there any way, using php or something else, that I can set the appropriate link to class "active" depending on which page is opened?
So, if I click on FAQ, I want the code to look like this:
<li class="m1">Home</li>
<li class="m2">FAQs</li>
<li class="m3">Status</li>
<li class="m4">Contact Us</li>
Yes you quite easily check which page you're on using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].
A good way to approach this would be to store your links/titles in an array, then loop through them and echo the active class when it equals PHP_SELF:
<?php
$links = array('Home' => 'home.php', 'FAQs' => 'faq.php', 'Status' => '', 'Contact Us' => '');
foreach ($links as $text => $page)
{
echo '<li><a href="'. $page .'"';
if ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] == $page)
{
echo ' class="active"';
}
echo '>'. $text .'<a></li>';
?>
Here's another route you can take:
<?php
function getCurrPage() {
$org_page = substr($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"],strrpos($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"],"/")+1);
$stripped_page = substr($org_page, 0, -4);
return $stripped_page;
}
$curPage = getCurrPage();
$actPage = array();
$actPage[$curPage] = ' class="active"';
?>
<li class="m1"><a href="home.php"<?=$actPage['home'];?>>Home</a></li>
<li class="m2"><a href="faq.php"<?=$actPage['faq'];?>>FAQs</a></li>
<li class="m3"><a href=""<?=$actPage['status'];?>>Status</a></li>
<li class="m4"><a href=""<?=$actPage['contact'];?>>Contact Us</a></li>
You can use JQuery (JavaScript) to do it dynamically:
$(document).ready(function() {
//Add the current class to all links pointing to the current page
search = window.location.search;
$("*").find("a[href='" + search + "']").each(function(){
$(this).parent('li').addClass("active");
//add your own logic here if needed
})
})
Which works quite well.
The other alternative is to use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] or __FILE__:
<li class="m1"><a href="home.php"<?php if (basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) == 'home.php'): ?> class="active"<?php endif; ?>>Home</a></li>
<li class="m1"><a href="faq.php"<?php if (basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) == 'faq.php'): ?> class="active"<?php endif; ?>>FAQ</a></li>
<li class="m1"><a href="status.php"<?php if (basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) == 'status.php'): ?> class="active"<?php endif; ?>>Statys</a></li>
<li class="m1"><a href="contact_us.php"<?php if (basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) == 'contact_us.php'): ?> class="active"<?php endif; ?>>Contact Us</a></li>
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Hello I would like to know how to use PHP in my header so that my class active can be activated when it is on the correct page.
for instance on my index.php
i have this at the top
<?php
$page = 'Home';
include("header.php");
?>
then this is in my navigation
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a class="active" href="index">Home</a></li>
<li class="rightside">Projects</li>
<li class="rightside">About</li>
<li class="rightside">Blog
<li class="rightside">Contact
</ul>
</nav>
I want the class to be activated when i am on the appropriate page if that makes any sense. Thank you, my PhP knowledge is minimal.
This is a shorthand if statement that can be used inline
<?php echo ($page == 'Home' ? 'active':'');?>
See Below
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a class="<?php echo ($page == 'Home' ? 'active':'');?>" href="index">Home</a></li>
<li class="rightside"><a class="<?php echo ($page == 'Projects' ? 'active':'');?>" href="projects">Projects</a></li>
<li class="rightside"><a class="<?php echo ($page == 'About_us' ? 'active':'');?>" href="about_us">About</a></li>
<li class="rightside"><a class="<?php echo ($page == 'Blog' ? 'active':'');?>" href="blog">Blog</a>
<li class="rightside"><a class="<?php echo ($page == 'Contact' ? 'active':'');?>" href="contact">Contact</a>
</ul>
</nav>
I personally use a jquery function for this, it saves having to declare the page type each time
jQuery
$(function () {
var url = window.location.href.substr(window.location.href.lastIndexOf("/") + 1);
$('[href$="'+url+'"]').parent().addClass("active");
});
If you always declare $page before the header include, than you can use an if statement.
Just an example:
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a class="<?php echo ($page == 'Home') ? 'active' : 'rightside'; ?>" href="index">Home</a></li>
<!-- same for your other list elements -->
</ul>
</nav>
I am trying to learn PHP for a website that I am building. In CSS, I have a class, nav a.thispage, setup to make a 'button' on the navigation be the same color as the highlight. It works beautifully. But, as I added pages, I find that I needed to constantly update all of the HTML files of the site, over, and over again. I found out that PHP could help me to automate this. I use the following PHP, in my HTML to do this:
<?php include 'content/header.php';?>
The header.php file has the following content:
<header>
<h1><img id="headerimage" src="Images/GrandLodge.png"/>Lodge</h1>
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Events</li>
<li>Social</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>Area Game Stores</li>
<li>PFS</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
Now, because I am using this method, I can't just set the class="thispage" on the a tag. Is there a way to set the class, dynamically, with PHP? If so, how to I tell if the page loading the html is actually the page that needs it? Is using PHP even the correct way to handle this, or should I be using JavaScript?
I know this is a lot, and I didn't really provide a lot of what I have done, but I can't actually seem to see what I need to do for this. All I really need is a point in the right direction, rather than a full code sample.
Thank you for any help you can provide.
Use basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])
<header>
<h1><img id="headerimage" src="Images/GrandLodge.png"/>Lodge</h1>
<nav>
<ul>
<?php $basename = basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);?>
$class = $basename === 'index.php' || empty($basename) ? ' class="thispage"' : '';
<li <?php if($basename=="index.php" || $basename==""){?> class="thispage" <?php } ?>>Home</li>
<li <?php if($basename=="events.php"){?> class="thispage" <?php } ?>>Events</li>
<li <?php if($basename=="social.php"){?> class="thispage" <?php } ?>>Social</li>
<li <?php if($basename=="about.php"){?> class="thispage" <?php } ?>>About</li>
<li <?php if($basename=="contact.php"){?> class="thispage" <?php } ?>>Contact</li>
<li <?php if($basename=="gamestores.php"){?> class="thispage" <?php } ?>>Area Game Stores</li>
<li>PFS</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
Updated another Simple way
<header>
<h1><img id="headerimage" src="Images/GrandLodge.png"/>Lodge</h1>
<nav>
<ul>
<?php $basename = basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);?>
$class = $basename === 'index.php' || empty($basename) ? ' class="thispage"' : '';
<li <?= $class ?>>Home</li>
<li <?= $class ?>>Events</li>
<li <?= $class ?>>Social</li>
<li <?= $class ?>>About</li>
<li <?= $class ?>>Contact</li>
<li <<?= $class ?>>Area Game Stores</li>
<li>PFS</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header
You can use a bit oF PHP and JavaScript to handle this
<header>
<h1><img id="headerimage" src="Images/GrandLodge.png"/>Lodge</h1>
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a id="aHome" href="index.php">Home</a></li>
<li><a id="aEvents" href="events.php">Events</a></li>
<li><a id="aSocial" href="social.php">Social</a></li>
<li><a id="aAbout" href="about.php">About</a></li>
<li><a id="aContact" href="contact.php">Contact</a></li>
<li><a id="aGame" href="gamestores.php">Area Game Stores</a></li>
<li><a id="aPFS" href="http://someaddress" target="_blank">PFS</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
</header>
Now suppose the visitor has landed on the About page. The code to check that and set the class name on the a tag would be
<?php
if ($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] == '/about.php') {
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("aAbout").className = 'thispage';
</script>
<?php
}
?>
Try it and let me know.
In order for PHP to help you, you'd have to generate your navigation within a loop. Something along the lines of:
<?php
$menu = array(
'Home' => 'index.php',
'Events' => 'events.php',
'Social' => 'social.php',
'About' => 'about.php'
);
?>
<?php foreach ($menu as $name => $href) : ?>
<?php $class_name = basename(__FILE__) === $href ? 'thispage' : ''; ?>
<li><?php echo $name; ?></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
Dynamic Header, CSS Class Change To Active USING PHP (dirrectory)
I want the class of the <li> tag to change under the active dirrectory...
now, every guide shows me how to do it when your page equals it, but i want to change
the <li> depending on what dirrectory im on
for example:
if say im on http://example.com/RESOURCES/code/opensource, or http://example.com/RESOURCES/images/clipart i want the "RESOURCES" ^^ <li> to be 'class="active"' while the rest display 'class="noactive"'
or if im on http://example.com/tutorials/css/flawless-dropdown-menu I want the "tutorials" <li> to be 'class="active"' while the rest are 'class="noactive"'
URL Setup:
This is my example of how my url's are displayed...
http://example.com/tutorials/css/flawless-dropdown-menu
^^That URL is the page of a tutorial....under the "tutorials" directory, than under the "CSS" category directory, than the page title (all of these directories are not real and are rewrites from .htaccess) [irrelevant]
Navigation Setup:
<ul id="mainnav">
<li class="noactive">Home</li>
<li class="active">Tutorials</li>
<li class="noactive">Resources</li>
<li class="noactive">Library</li>
<li class="noactive">Our Projects</li>
<li class="noactive">Community</li>
</ul>
Figured out the ANSWER...I was over thinking it.
HTML
<ul id="mainnav">
<li class="<?php if ($first_part=="") {echo "active"; } else {echo "noactive";}?>">Home</li>
<li class="<?php if ($first_part=="tutorials") {echo "active"; } else {echo "noactive";}?>">Tutorials</li>
<li class="<?php if ($first_part=="resources") {echo "active"; } else {echo "noactive";}?>">Resources</li>
<li class="<?php if ($first_part=="library") {echo "active"; } else {echo "noactive";}?>">Library</li>
<li class="<?php if ($first_part=="our-projects") {echo "active"; } else {echo "noactive";}?>">Our Projects</li>
<li class="<?php if ($first_part=="community") {echo "active"; } else {echo "noactive";}?>">Community</li>
</ul>
PHP
<?php
$directoryURI = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$path = parse_url($directoryURI, PHP_URL_PATH);
$components = explode('/', $path);
$first_part = $components[1];
?>
header.php
$activePage = basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], ".php");
nav.php
<ul>
<li class="<?= ($activePage == 'index') ? 'active':''; ?>">Home</li>
<li class="<?= ($activePage == 'tutorials') ? 'active':''; ?>">Tutorials</li>
...
Through PHP you can try -
<?php
// gets the current URI, remove the left / and then everything after the / on the right
$directory = explode('/',ltrim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/'));
// loop through each directory, check against the known directories, and add class
$directories = array("index", "tutorials","resources","library","our-projects","community"); // set home as 'index', but can be changed based of the home uri
foreach ($directories as $folder){
$active[$folder] = ($directory[0] == $folder)? "active":"noactive";
}
?>
<ul>
<li class="<?php echo $active['index']?>">Home</li>
<li class="<?php echo $active['tutorials']?>">Tutorials</li>
<li class="<?php echo $active['resources']?>">Resources</li>
<li class="<?php echo $active['library']?>">Library</li>
<li class="<?php echo $active['our-projects']?>">Our Projects</li>
<li class="<?php echo $active['community']?>">Community</li>
</ul>
Maybe this helps you:
$(document).ready(function()
{
var parts = document.URL.split("/");
// [http:, empty, your domain, firstfolder]
var firstFolder = parts[3];
$("#mainnav li").attr("class", "noactive");
$("#mainnav a[href='/" + firstFolder + "/']").parent().attr("class", "active");
});
It's probably easier to do with jQuery but this works:
$url='http://example.com/tutorials/css/flawless-dropdown-menu';//pass the current url here instead of a static string.
$segments = explode ("/",$url);
$menuItems=array('Tutorials','Resources', 'Library', 'Our-Projects','Community');
$menu=array();
foreach ($menuItems as $menuItem) {
if($segments[3]==strtolower($menuItem)){
$menu[]=('<li class="active">'.str_replace("-"," ",$menuItem).'</li>');
} else {
$menu[]=('<li class="no-active">'.str_replace("-"," ",$menuItem).'</li>');
}
}
foreach ($menu as $item) {
echo $item.'<br />';
}
if you use mysql_fetch defined your row for menu title.
if we take your menu title is MENU in mysql database and you have to put in
(Home,tutorials,library,resources,our-projects,community)
<?php
//connect your data bass
include(connection.php');
//get your from ID like www.google?id=1
$id = $_GET['id'];
$query = "select * from pages where id='$id'";
$query1 = mysql_query($query);
while($row= mysql_fetch_array($query1))
{
?>
<html>
<?php $active= $row['MENU'];?>
<ul>
<li class="<?php if($active=='Home'){echo 'active';}else{echo'noactive';}?>">Home</li>
<li class="<?php if($active=='tutorials'){echo 'active';}else{echo'noactive';}?>">Tutorials</li>
<li class="<?php if($active=='resources'){echo 'active';}else{echo'noactive';}?>">Resources</li>
<li class="<?php if($active=='library'){echo 'active';}else{echo'noactive';}?>">Library</li>
<li class="<?php if($active=='our-projects'){echo 'active';}else{echo'noactive';}?>">Our Projects</li>
<li class="<?php if($active=='community'){echo 'active';}else{echo'noactive';}?>">Community</li>
</ul>
</html>
<?php };?>
This answer will apply if all your pages have a php extension and you want a long messy way. I put the code below on top of every php page giving each page an ID which means all pages will have an ID which is tiresome and boring and hard to track.
<?php $page = 1; ?>
Now in my header or navigation I used the code below to put the active class. You can also put an else if you want something else.
<nav id="navbar" class="navbar">
<ul>
<li class="<?php if($page == 1){ echo "active"; } ?>"><a class="url" href="index.php">Index</a></li>
<li class="<?php if($page == 2){ echo "active"; } ?>"><a class="url" href="single-post.php">Information</a></li>
<li class="<?php if($page == 3){ echo "active"; } ?>"><a class="url" href="single-post.php">Wanted</a></li>
<li class="<?php if($page == 4){ echo "active"; } ?>"><a class="url" href="single-post.php">Workshop</a></li>
<li class="<?php if($page == 5){ echo "active"; } ?>"><a class="url" href="gallery.php">Gallery</a></li>
<li class="<?php if($page == 6){ echo "active"; } ?>"><a class="url" href="featured.php">Featured</a></li>
<li class="<?php if($page == 7){ echo "active"; } ?>"><a class="url" href="contact.php">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
"includes/header.php" - This goes in Top of the File
<?php
$activePage = basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$index="";
$nosotros="";
$cursos="";
$contacto="";
switch ($activePage) {
case 'index.php':
$index=' class="current"';
break;
case 'nosotros.php':
$nosotros=' class="current"';
break;
case 'cursos.php':
$cursos=' class="current"';
break;
case 'contacto.php':
$contacto=' class="current"';
break;
default:
break;
}
?>
and this goes on the nav section
<ul>
<?php
echo '<li'.$index.'><div>Inicio</div></li>';
echo '<li'.$nosotros.'><div>Nosotros</div></li>';
echo '<li'.$cursos.'><div>Cursos</div></li>';
echo '<li><div>Academia</div></li>';
echo '<li><div>Tienda</div></li>';
echo '<li'.$contacto.'><div>Contacto</div></li>';
?>
</ul>
Try the following:
<ul class="sub-menu">
<div class="h-10"></div>
<li class="<?php if ($your_variable=="test") {echo "active"; }
else{echo"noactive";}?>">
Test
</li>
<li class="<?php if ($your_variable=="test2") {echo "active";
} else {echo"noactive";}?>">
<a href="test2.php" >Test2</a>
</li>
<li class="<?php if ($your_variable=="test3") {echo
"active"; } else {echo "noactive";}?>">
Test3
</li>
</ul>
**strong PHP text**
<?php
$directoryURI = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$path = parse_url($directoryURI, PHP_URL_PATH);
$components = explode('/', $path);
$your_variable = basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], ".php");
?>
Here we can do a simple thing also :
<li class="page-scroll <?php if(basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])=="aboutus.php"){echo "active";} ?>">About us</li>
Here is another take using PHP:
<ul class="navbar-nav">
<?php
// Defines all pages in navigation
$pages = array(
'Home' => 'index.php',
'Products' => 'products.php',
'Services' => 'services.php',
'Contact' => 'contact.php',
'About' => 'about.php'
);
// Gets active page URL
$active = basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
// Loops through all pages
foreach ($pages as $title => $url) {
// Checks if active url is matched and adds active CSS class
if ($active === $url) {
echo '<li>'.$title.'</li>';
}
// Prints out default style for remaining links
else {
echo '<li>'.$title.'</li>';
}
}
?>
</ul>
$getUrl = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URL']; -> www.example.com/home.php
$getFileName = explode('/',$getUrl);
The result of $getFileName Will Be In Array ->[" ","home.php"]
$result = $getFileName[2]; //home.php
<li class="<?php if ($result=='' || $result == 'index.php') {echo 'active'; }?>"><a href='#'>Home</a></li>
<li class="<?php if ($result=='about.php') {echo 'active'; }?>"><a href='#'>About Us</a></li>
<li class="<?php if ($result=='contact.php') {echo 'active'; }?>"><a href='#'>Contact Us</a></li>
You can use str_replace for this.
$path = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$active = str_replace('/','', $path);
<ul>
<li class="nav-item <?php if($active == '' || $active == 'index.php'){echo 'active';}?>">
<a class="nav-link" href="index.php">HOME</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item <?php if($active == 'about.php'){echo 'active';}?>">
<a class="nav-link" href="about.php">ABOUT US</a>
</li>
</ul>
<?php $request_uri= $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];?>
<ul>
<li class="<?php if((strpos($request_uri,"index.html")!==false) || $request_uri=="" || $request_uri=="/"){echo "selected";}?>">Home</li>
<li class="<?php if((strpos($request_uri,"service")!==false)){echo "selected";}?>">Services </li>
<li class="<?php if((strpos($request_uri,"product")!==false)){echo "selected";}?>">Products</li>
<li class="<?php if((strpos($request_uri,"blog")!==false)){echo "selected";}?>">Blog</li>
<li class="<?php if((strpos($request_uri,"question")!==false)){echo "selected";}?>">Ques & Ans</li>
<li class="<?php if((strpos($request_uri,"career")!==false)){echo "selected";}?>">Career</li>
<li class="<?php if((strpos($request_uri,"about-us")!==false)){echo "selected";}?>">About</li>
</ul>
So I have searched SO for an hour trying to find the answer, and also tried various methods, including this
I am trying to include my pages, along with the navigation. But on the correct page, I need the list-item to have a class of active. The navigation is in header.php and currently looks like this:
<nav>
<ul>
<li class="active"> Home </li>
<li> Apps </li>
<li> Forums </li>
</ul>
</nav>
First, I have no idea if JS(jQuery) would be better, or if PHP was to be better. Both wouldn't matter if it works.
Also I am a bit new with PHP and trying to learn.
What would be the easiest (hopefully) method to use? So I don't have to change a lot of code just to give a nav class="active"
Asumming you have a $page variable (which contains the name of the page you are currently on):
<nav>
<ul>
<li class="<?php echo ($page == "home" ? "active" : "")?>"> Home </li>
<li class="<?php echo ($page == "apps" ? "active" : "")?>"> Apps </li>
<li class="<?php echo ($page == "forums" ? "active" : "")?>"> Forums </li>
</ul>
</nav>
Here is a simple way where you do not need to add any other variable
<li class="<?php echo ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] == "/index.php" ? "active" : "");?>">
Start
</li>
<li class="<?php echo ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] == "/about.php" ? "active" : "");?>">
About
</li>
<li class="<?php echo ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] == "/practices.php" ? "active" : "");?>">
Practices
</li>
Add basename function before $_SERVER. I hope it will work.
echo (basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) == 'yourPageName' ?'active' : " ");
At page header use:
<?php $loc = this.location; ?>
Then at every link add:
<?php(this.href == $loc) ? echo 'class="active"' : '' ?>
define variable $page="index.php" in index.php page and for other pages change the variable value according to the page name
<li class="<?php echo ($page == "index.php" ? "active" : "")?>">
Home
</li>
<li class="<?php echo ($page == "about.php" ? "active" : "")?>">
About
</li>
<li class="<?php echo ($page == "service.php" ? "active" : "")?>">
Services
</li>
<li class="<?php echo ($page == "contact.php" ? "active" : "")?>">
Contact
</li>
$page_url = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$s = explode("&",$page_url);
//print $s[0];
$page = $s[0];
function createTopNav($page)
{
$pages = array(
array(
'name'=>'Feeder',
'link'=>'page=feeder'
),
array(
'name'=>'Services',
'link'=>'page=services'
),
array(
'name'=>'Development',
'link'=>'page=development'
),
array(
'name'=>'Design',
'link'=>'page=design'
),
);
$res = "";
foreach($pages as $key=>$val)
{
if($val['link']==$page)
{
$res.= "<a class=\"active\" href=\"?"
.$val['link'].
"\">"
.$val['name'].
"</a>";
}
else
{
$res.= "<a class=\"\" href=\"?"
.$val['link'].
"\" >"
.$val['name'].
"</a>";
}
}
$res.="";
return $res;
}
echo createTopNav($page);
if you are using query string exmaple.com?page_id=Apps to pass page id than with php you can
approach this thing
$page_id = $_REQUEST['page_id'];
<ul>
<li class="<?php echo ($page_id == "Home" ? "active" : "");?>">
Home
</li>
<li class="<?php echo ($page_id == "Apps" ? "active" : "");?>">
Apps
</li>
<li class="<?php echo ($page_id == "Forums" ? "active" : ""); ?>">
Forums
</li>
</ul>
If you don't want to use jQuery or PHP - can do next:
Give ID or different CLASS to each <li> element in "your-include-nav.php".
Define the "active" style with CSS in <head> section, on each page.
Add basename function. Then it will work i hope.
So I have a menu in a php file that looks like this (This is the whole file. I'm totally new to PHP.)
menu.php:
<li id="current"><span>Home</span></li>
<li><span>Blog</span></li>
<li><span>Results</span></li>
<li><span>Pictures</span></li>
<li><span>Our Location</span></li>
Now in my pages I do this (index.php):
<div id="tabs1" >
<ul>
<!-- CSS Tabs -->
<?php include("menu.php"); ?>
</ul>
</div>
So what I want to be able to do is change the line above to this:
<?php include("menu.php?current=pictures"); ?>
Which would make the active tab the Pictures tab. How can I do this?
You could also try this:
Your php script
<?php
$selected = "pictures";
$current_id = ' id="current"';
include "menu.php";
?>
this is your menu:
<ul>
<li <?php if ($selected == "pictures") print $current_id; ?>><span>Home</span></li>
<li <?php if ($selected == "blog") print $current_id; ?>><span>Blog</span></li>
<li <?php if ($selected == "home") print $current_id; ?>><span>Results</span></li>
<li <?php if ($selected == "me") print $current_id; ?>><span>Pictures</span></li>
<li <?php if ($selected == "contacts") print $current_id; ?>><span>Our Location</span></li>
</ul>
Try this:
<li <?php if($_GET['current'] == 'home') {echo 'id="current"'}?>><span>Home</span></li>
<li <?php if($_GET['current'] == 'blog') {echo 'id="current"'}?>><span>Blog</span></li>
<li <?php if($_GET['current'] == 'results') {echo 'id="current"'}?>><span>Results</span></li></li>
and so on....
worth looking at
intelligent navigation
<nav>
<style>
#active{
color:#FFC801;
}
</style>
<?php
$activePage = basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], ".php");
?>
<ul>
<li>About Us</li>
<li>Mentors</li>
<li>Tours</li>
<li>Animation</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Testimonials</li>
<li>Press/Media</li>
<li>Facts</li>
</ul>
</nav>
I don't think its necessary for it to be done at the server side (using up CPU cycles).
Use javascript/CSS to achieve this.