smart menu within includes

[chrislive]

I have a menu.php but it does not do completely what i want. I want it to be able to recognise which page it is on and highlight or change the style appropriately. The colours etc i can manage however how to get the menu.php to recognise seems to be more complicated then i thought because im using includes etc.
this is the basic layout...

include header
(within header)
include menu
CONTENT
include footer

the thing is that i would use an if $page == but i am using multiple files and pages so i have pages.php with numerous ?page=testing as well as other pages too..

I thought i could do it with $PHP_SELF etc but it shows that as menu.php not as the page it is originated from..

Any ideas?

[devinemke]

store all of your pages in an array and build your nav menu like this:

$pages = array(
	'home',
	'products',
	'downloads',
	'company',
	'contact'
);

foreach ($pages as $value)
{
	if ($value == $_GET['page']) {echo '<b>' . $value . '</b>';}
	else {echo '<a href="index.php?page=' . $value . '">' . $value . '</a>';}
	echo '<br>';
}

[chrislive]

thanks for your reply...

so in the case where I have different php files the menu is pointing to how do it do it?

$pages = array(
    'home','index.php'
    'products','products.php?page=details'
    'downloads','pages.php?page=downloads'
    'company',
    'contact'
);

foreach ($pages as $value)
{
    if ($value == $_GET['page']) {echo '<b>' . $value . '</b>';}
    else {echo '<a href="index.php?page=' . $value . '">' . $value . '</a>';}
    echo '<br>';
}

[chrislive]

ok this sort of works... but when i include it from another page it does not recognise the page= from that page...

so in index.php i include menu.php with the above code (yours not mine). It then wont recognise it properly and so wont change the style...

a little help???

also how to make it so that I can specify that page and the value seperate? so
page=about
title for about = About Us

Thanks for your help...