How to Set Current Page "Active" in PHP

How to set current page active in php

It would be easier if you would build an array of pages in your script and passed it to the view file along with the currently active page:

//index.php or controller

$pages = array();
$pages["offnungszeiten.php"] = "Öffnungszeiten";
$pages["sauna.php"] = "Sauna";
$pages["frauensauna.php"] = "Frauensauna";
$pages["custom.php"] = "Beauty Lounge";
$pages["feiertage.php"] = "Feiertage";

$activePage = "offnungszeiten.php";

//menu.php
<?php foreach($pages as $url=>$title):?>
  <li>
       <a <?php if($url === $activePage):?>class="active"<?php endif;?> href="<?php echo $url;?>">
         <?php echo $title;?>
      </a>
  </li>

<?php endforeach;?>

With a templating engine like Smarty your menu.php would look even nicer:

//menu.php
{foreach $pages as $url=>$title}
   <li>
       <a {if $url === $activePage}class="active"{/if} href="{$url}">
         {$title}
      </a>
   </li>
{/foreach}

Add class=active to active page using PHP

Figured out the ANSWER...I was over thinking it.

HTML

<ul id="mainnav">
    <li class="<?php if ($first_part=="") {echo "active"; } else  {echo "noactive";}?>"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
    <li class="<?php if ($first_part=="tutorials") {echo "active"; } else  {echo "noactive";}?>"><a href="#">Tutorials</a></li>
    <li class="<?php if ($first_part=="resources") {echo "active"; } else  {echo "noactive";}?>"><a href="#">Resources</a></li>
    <li class="<?php if ($first_part=="library") {echo "active"; } else  {echo "noactive";}?>"><a href="#">Library</a></li>
    <li class="<?php if ($first_part=="our-projects") {echo "active"; } else  {echo "noactive";}?>"><a href="#">Our Projects</a></li>
    <li class="<?php if ($first_part=="community") {echo "active"; } else  {echo "noactive";}?>"><a href="#">Community</a></li>
</ul>

PHP

<?php 
$directoryURI = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$path = parse_url($directoryURI, PHP_URL_PATH);
$components = explode('/', $path);
$first_part = $components[1];
?>

Set active class on current page

You can use $_GET:

<nav class="menu">
  <ul class="menu-ul navigation">
    <div class="menu-first">
      <li><a href="index.php"><span class="main-title">X-BIKES</span></a></li>
    </div>
    <div class="menu-second">
        <li class="<?php echo $_GET['page'] == "events" ? "active" : ""; ?>" ><a href="index.php?page=events">Events</a></li>
        <?php if (empty($_SESSION['user'])): ?>
        <li class="<?php echo $_GET['page'] == "login" ? "active" : ""; ?>"><a href="index.php?page=login">Login</a></li>
        <li>/</li>
        <li class="<?php echo $_GET['page'] == "register" ? "active" : ""; ?>"><a href="index.php?page=register">Register</a></li>
      <?php else: ?>
        <li class="<?php echo $_GET['page'] == "logout" ? "active" : ""; ?>"><a href="index.php?page=logout">Logout</a></li>

      <li class="menu-cart <?php echo $_GET['page'] == "cart" ? "active" : ""; ?>">
        <a href="index.php?page=cart">Cart (<?php
          if(empty($_SESSION['cart'])) {
            echo '0';
          }else {
            echo sizeof($_SESSION['cart']);
          };
      ?>)</a>
      </li>
      <?php endif; ?>
    </div>
  </ul>
</nav>

And then in the CSS, you can change the link colour:

.navigation a {
  color: blue;
}

.navigation .active a {
  color: red;
}

Active Navigation Bar with PHP?

You could use $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'].

<ul class="topmenu">
            <li <?php if($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']=="/home.php") { ?>  class="active"   <?php   }  ?>><a href="home.php"><b>Bienvenue</b></a></li>
            <li <?php if($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']=="/livres.php") { ?>  class="active"   <?php   }  ?>><a href="livres.php"><b>Livres</b></a></li>
            <li <?php if($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']=="/bibliotheque.php") { ?>  class="active"   <?php   }  ?>><a href="bibliotheque.php"><b>Bibliothèque</b></a></li>
            <li <?php if($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']=="/universite.php") { ?>  class="active"   <?php   }  ?>><a href="universite.php"><b>L'université</b></a></li>
            <li <?php if($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']=="/contact.php") { ?>  class="active"   <?php   }  ?>><a href="contact.php"><b>Contact</b></a></li>
</ul>

How to add active class in php pagination

check your currebt page with loop variable then add class according to it.

$pagLink = "<ul class='pagination'>";  
$current_page = isset($_GET['page'])?$_GET['page'] : 1; //retrive your current page value here
for ($i=1; $i<=$total_pages; $i++) {
    $active_class = "";
    if($i==$current_page)
    {
      $active_class = "active";
    }
    $pagLink .= "<li class='$active_class'><a href='manage_claims.php?page=".$i."'>".$i."</a><li>";  
}
echo $pagLink . "</ul>";