Comments on: Highlight Current Page Using PHP Includes

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:35:21 +0000

Excellent – a perfect simple solution! If you are using subfolders AND and include, then you must use $_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_FILENAME’ as __FILE__ seems to return the path of the include itself, not the file you want to highlight. Works perfectly, thank you!

By: Abhisek

Abhisek — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:30:54 +0000

Whoa!! thanks. Nice snippet. Saved me.

By: KLJKLJ

KLJKLJ — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:27:41 +0000

Thank’s! Its perfekt! Easy and it works

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By: mike

mike — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:31:59 +0000

YOU LEGEND

This is just what I was looking for!

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:21:04 +0000

does anyone know…

if i wish the same navigation selection highlighted for more than one page, how would i code this?

an example would be an “About Us” in the navigation, when there are several related About Us pages and when a user is on any of them, keeping the About Us highlighted in the nav. file names might be: about.php, about-gm.php, about-md.php, etc.

thanks in advance for any help.

great and very useful article btw!

peace,
Aj

By: Jorge

Jorge — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:16:06 +0000

The best explanation I saw untill now. Simple and straight to the point.
Thanks for this very good lesson!!!
Best regards,
Jorge

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:49:23 +0000

ElanMan,

Thanks for this tutorial. Simple and straight forward.

I’ve been trying for days to get a simple navigation like this to work, and nothing is working properly.

I’ve tried this tutorial and many others, word for word, and they all do the same thing. The links work perfectly on every page, but the “current” class never works.

The “current” class works fine without PHP, but once I put in the PHP code it no longer works. I’m a PHP noob, so I’m sure I’m doing something wrong. But, I’m also wondering if it’s something with my PHP setup on my host. Could that cause this problem?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: ElanMan

ElanMan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:13:35 +0000

Hi Daniel,
As this method is just using string comparisons, you would have to check for a common string segment in all links.
In the example you gave, this would mean checking for ‘about’, not an ideal solution. You might be better looking for a breadcrumb class that does this sort of thing automatically.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:37:35 +0000

Guys, if I need to highlight two or more links, like: about.php, about_1.php, about_2.php, like sublink using the same page, what can I do?