Active State Same Nav Link

[andy.richin]

I am trying to keep a "work" nav active when you go to multiple pages within my portfolio. Here is a working link of my site that I am trying to get this to work on. If you click the "work" nav you will see a secondary nav and if you click "print" the nav link at the top goes away.

http://www.andyrichin.com/dev

Here is the code I am using:

<?
$path = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$page = basename($path);
$page = basename($path, '.php');
?>

<li><a <? if($page == 'work_all') print ' class="active"'; ?> href="work_all.php">WORK</a></li>

Hope this makes sense. Is there a way to have the $page == more than one identifier? This is the only solution I can think of, but doesn't work. Thanks in advance!

[spufi]

1. You could use a switch statement and check for each case of the sub sections.

if = home {
    // set main menu with class
}
if = work {
    // set main menu with class
    checksubmenu($page);
}
if = about {
    // set main menu with class
}

function checksubmenu($page) {

switch($page) {
    case: 'print'
        // print link
        break;
    case: 'web'
        // print link
        break;
    case: 'branding'
        // print link
        break;
    case: default
        // print link for all
    }
} 

2. The subsections could be passed via a variable, and you just check for it to see which additional link gets that class as well.

if $_GET['section'] = "print"
    // print link
else if $_GET['section'] = "web"
    // print link
else if $_GET['section'] = "branding"
    // print link
else if $_GET['section'] = "print"
    // print link
else
    // print link 

Coding is crude but you get the idea.

[andy.richin]

Ok I suck at writing PHP, could you explain more specifically?

[spufi]

http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php

That should cover the switch statement. Do you understand functions or do you need help there?

[andy.richin]

I'm still a bit confused on how this all works. Could I simply do this? Here is the code I posted before..

<? 
$path = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; 
$page = basename($path); 
$page = basename($path, '.php'); 
?> 

<li><a <? if($page == 'work_all') print ' class="active"'; ?> href="work_all.php">WORK</a></li>

If I had all of my "work" pages, including the work index page plus all sub pages, could I say

<li><a <? if($page == 'work/') print 'class="active"';?>
href="work_all.php">WORK</a><li>

Would this work? By giving the page identifier that folder instead of a specific file?