Set class for active items in Multi-Level Submenu

[maxert]

Hello,

I have a two level submenu that looks something like this:

<ul>
<li><a href="/main-dir/subdir1/>1st Item</a></li>
<li><a href="/main-dir/subdir2/>2nd Item</a>
    <ul>
        <li><a href="/main-dir/subdir2/a.php>1st SubItem</a>
        <li><a href="/main-dir/subdir2/b.php>2nd SubItem</a>
        <li><a href="/main-dir/subdir2/c.php>3rd SubItem</a>
    </ul>
</li>
<li><a href="/main-dir/subdir3/>3rt Item</a></li>
<li><a href="/main-dir/subdir4/>4th Item</a></li>
</ul>

I am indicating the active page by giving the relevant <li> a class of "active"
The tricky part is that, in the case of SubItems I would like the parent <li> to have a class of "active" as well as the actual active page <li>.

I have some code that is working on the main menu:

//Menu is $menu
$lines = split("\n", $menu);
foreach ($lines as $line) {
    $current = false;
    preg_match('/href="([^"]+)"/', $line, $url);
    if (substr($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"], 0, 5) == substr($url[1], 0, 5)) {
        $line = str_replace('<a h', '<a class="active" h', $line);
        }
    echo $line."\n";

Can I modify this to work for my submenu?

Thank you!

[theelectricwiz]

try changing $SERVER["PHP_SELF"] so you split off the filename before checking it against the href. Also you should try to avoid regular expressions when you can as they can be quite processor hungry.

//Menu is $menu
$lines = split("\n", $menu);
$folder = implode('/', explode('/', $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"], -1)) // Ugly but it should work
foreach ($lines as $line) {
    $current = false;
    if (strpos($line, $folder)) {
        $line = str_replace('<a h', '<a class="active" h', $line);
        }
    echo $line."\n";