Different color for you're here page on navigation?

[austingecko]

At the top of each page I have a navigation bar with a few pages and when a user is at one of those pages, I would like for the font color to be different and to not include a link.

Let's say one of the links on the navigation bar is:
<a href="forum.php" class="nav">Forum</a>.

If user is at forum.php I would like it to read something like...
<span class="here">Forum</span>

I guess I could use a different header for each page and then change colors/link on those headers. But, I want to use only 1 header include file containing the entire navigation bar.

Any clue of how I could do this? Thanks

[Weedpacket]

Do it the same way you select option out of a SELECT list w/ PHP. Check $PHP_SELF or similar, and if it matches the current page, write the <span> tags.

<?php if ($PHP_SELF=='forum.php') {?>
<span class='here'>Forum</span>
<?php } else { ?>
<a href='forum.php' class='nav'>Forum</a>
<?php } ?>

And similar for the other links in the bar.

Then, a more sophisticated approach would be to put all this in a loop:

$navlinks = array (
   array (
        'href'=>'index.php',
        'label'=>'Home'),
    array(
        'href'=>'forum.php',
        'label'=>'Forum'),
      //...etc.
);

foreach($navlinks as $navlink)
{   if ($PHP_SELF==$navlink['href'])
        echo "<span class='here'>$navlink[label]</span>";
    else
        echo "<a href='$navlink[href]'>$navlink[label]</a>";
}

Then adjusting the contents of the navbar would be a matter of adjusting the $navlinks array.