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I have written a sipmle function for navigation:

function user_list()
{
$us = array("setting", "message", "listUsers");
foreach($us as $value){
        $class = $_GET['user'] == $value ? $class = "userCurrent": '';

}
$user_ul = '<ul class="userlist">
    <li><a href="user.php?user=setting" class='.$class.'>Profile</a></li>
    <li><a href="user.php?user=message" class='.$class.'>Messages</a></li>
    <li><a href="user.php?user=listUsers" class='.$class.'>User List</a></li>
</ul>';
return $user_ul;

}

With this all links have $class = “userCurrent”. How can I prevent repeating the class and assign to only one link per one url query? Or is my way is the right way?
Thanks in advance

2

Sorry about the short reply, I’m a little short on time.

You can compare $_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”] to the link uri and apply the css class if they match.

3

what is the differenece?
My problem is not in comparing. Its in duplicated classes.
BTW, Thanks for reply

4

Sorry I didn’t really read it properly earlier.

Because you’re using $class outside of the loop it is always going to contain the last value set by the loop.

This will work


function user_list()
{
    $us = array("setting", "message", "listUsers");

    $class = array();

    foreach($us as $value){
        $class[$value] = ($_GET['user'] == $value ? 'userCurrent' : '');
    }

    $user_ul = '<ul class="userlist">
        <li><a href="user.php?user=setting" class='.$class['settings'].'>Profile</a></li>
        <li><a href="user.php?user=message" class='.$class['message'].'>Messages</a></li>
        <li><a href="user.php?user=listUsers" class='.$class['listUsers'].'>User List</a></li>
    </ul>';
    return $user_ul;

}
5

thanks
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