[Resolved] how do you know what page is loaded?

[jadeddog]

ok, so i have a navigation sidebar that i load on every page using an include.... what i want to do is have the current page option on the navigation bar a different color and not be a link (since the user is on the page already).... so if a person is on page5.php, the link "Page 5" would be red and would no longer be a link..... since my navigation bar is the same for every page, i was thinking i could find out what page the user has opened and then use if commands or something else to control what the link in the navigation bar looks like.... my problem is that i dont know of any way of finding out the current page being viewed.... does anybody know of a way of doing this?

[devinemke]

use a GET variable when linking to pages

<a href="index.php?page=5">page 5</a>

[dalecosp]

echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'];

[jadeddog]

thx for both responses.... i went the route of passing the page variable to the URL and using the $_GET to retrieve it.... the script_filename is nice to be aware of though, and im sure it will come in handy some other time