What are some best practices for highlighting the current menu item and its parent items in a PHP menu system?

One way to highlight the current menu item and its parent items in a PHP menu system is to use a combination of CSS classes and PHP logic to dynamically apply styling to the active menu items. You can achieve this by adding a specific class to the active menu item and its parent items based on the current page URL or menu item ID. 

<?php
// Get the current page URL
$current_url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

// Define an array of menu items with their corresponding URLs
$menu_items = array(
    'Home' => '/',
    'About' => '/about',
    'Services' => '/services',
    'Contact' => '/contact'
);

// Loop through the menu items and add a 'active' class to the current menu item and its parent items
foreach($menu_items as $menu_item => $url) {
    $class = ($url == $current_url) ? 'active' : '';
    echo '<li class="' . $class . '"><a href="' . $url . '">' . $menu_item . '</a></li>';
}
?>

Keywords

PHP menu system current menu item parent items highlighting

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