Better code needed to switch menu style

[endurox]

Hello all, long time no code but I'm back now.

There has to be a better way ( either using a function or switch statement ) to code the below:

//Example CSS
.menu_1{text-decoration:none;}
.menu_2{text-decoration:underline;}

//Example Home Page
$title = "Home";

if ($title = "Home") { $home = "menu_1"; } else { $home = "menu_2"; }
if ($title = "About") { $about = "menu_1"; } else { $about = "menu_2"; }

echo 'This is my home page.<br />'.
'<a href="home.php" class="'.$home.'">home</a> - <a href="about.php" class="'.$about.'">about</a>';

What I'm basically trying to accomplish:
if I'm currently on the home page then there is no text decoration for the link 'home'
- but there is an underline text-decoration for the about link

if I'm currently on the about page then there is no text decoration for the link 'about'
- but there is an underline text-decoration for the home link

Again, there has to be a better way ( perhaps using a function or switch statement ) that escapes me at the moment. Any help is much appreciated!

[EDIT 1]
Okay, so I just tested the above code and it doesn't really work as it can't assign menu_2 to the about link when on the home page.

Heres a graphical represtionation of what I would like to achieve:
On the home page:
Home - About - Contact

On the About Page:
Home - About - Contact

On the Contact Page:
Home - About - Contact

All where:
.menu_1{text-decoration:none;}
.menu_2{text-decoration:underline;}

[EDIT 2]
Okay this works, but again, there must be a better way to code this!

//pre-define menu styles
$home = 'menu_2';
$about = 'menu_2';
$contact = 'menu_2';

//re-define menu styles
switch ($title)
{
case 'Home':
	$home = 'menu_1';
	break;
case 'About':
	$about = 'menu_1';
	break;
case 'Contact':
	$contact = 'menu_1';
	break;
default:
	break;
}

echo 'This is my home page.<br />'.
'<a href="home.php" class="'.$home.'">home</a> - <a href="about.php" class="'.$about.'">about</a> - <a href="contact.php" class="'.$contact.'">contact</a>';

[NogDog]

I might do something like the following, as it makes it easier to add/remove links since you just need to modify one array:

$title = 'Home';

$links = array('Home', 'About', 'Contact');
$nav = array();
foreach($links as $link)
{
   $nav[] = sprintf(
      "<a href='%s.php' class='%s'>%s</a>",
      strtolower($link),
      ($link == $title) ? 'menu_1' : 'menu_2',
      $link
   );
}
echo "<p>" . implode(' - ', $nav) . "</p>\n";

[endurox]

Ah-Ha!!!

Love you mate! You've been such great help to me in the past and you've proven yourself again. I've learned much with your post since I didn't know what sprintf did.

Took me a few minutes but I finally figured most of it out!

The only thing I'm stuck on is what $nav[] does. Specifically the [ ] brackets. I'm assuming this is just an array (probably wrong).

Thanks again mate! Cheers, endurox

[NogDog]

Yes, if you want to add a new element to an array, you can use the "[]" after the array variable name to indicate that the value should be assigned to the next available numerical array index. The following are equivalent in their results:

$myArray = array('one', 'two', 'three');

$myArray = array(); // not always needed, but ensures it's an empty array to start
$myArray[] = 'one';
$myArray[] = 'two';
$myArray[] = 'three';