How to set active class for current page

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Wish you very happy new year to all

i have used the following code for menu




<ul class="main_menu">

      <li><?php echo CHtml::link('<span>Home</span>',array('index')); ?></li>

      <li><?php echo CHtml::link('<span>About us</span>',array('page&view=about')); ?></li>

      <li><?php echo CHtml::link('<span>Contact</span>',array('contact')); ?></li>

</ul>

im getting HTML out put as




<ul class="main_menu">

     <li><a href="/my/index.php?r=site/index"><span>Home</span></a></li>

     <li><a href="/my/index.php?r=site/page&amp;view=about"><span>About us</span></a></li>

     <li><a href="/my/index.php?r=site/contact"><span>Contact</span></a></li>

</ul>

I need to set class=active for home page if im in home page (like this for all pages) out put should be like this… help me




<ul class="main_menu">

     <li><a class="active" href="/my/index.php?r=site/index"><span>Home</span></a></li>

     <li><a href="/my/index.php?r=site/page&amp;view=about"><span>About us</span></a></li>

     <li><a href="/my/index.php?r=site/contact"><span>Contact</span></a></li>

</ul>

Thanks in advance

2

Why not use CMenu then?

3

Im using some special designs in menu

4

You can extend CMenu and write an own renderMenuRecursive() method. If you just need to know how CMenu highlights the current item, take a look at the isItemActive() method. If you’ll be satisfied with a very basic implementation, you can do the following:




<li><?php echo CHtml::link('<span>Home</span>', array('index'), ($this->id=='site' && $this->action->id=='index') ? array('class'=>'active') : array()); ?></li>

"$this" inside a view refers to the current controller.

5

thank you it’s work fine for index, but in the about us page its different how we could do that

Home =>site/index

about us=>site/page&view=about

you have given a code to find out id and action->id still i need to find out view too .$this->action->id only returns page. Help me

6

You will need to add a condition:




($this->id=='site' && $this->action->id=='page' && $_GET['view'] == 'about')

IMHO all these checks don’t look good, but if you like it… ;)

7

Thank you andy…its not good im accepted your point … could you give me any url which have complete code of cmenu extending …Wish you very happy new year

8

What exactly doesn’t satisfy you in the CMenu class? As I said before, take a look at the CMenu implementation (framework/zii/widgets/CMenu.php). In renderMenu() and renderMenuRecursive() all tags are generated. So you can create your own class Menu:




Yii::import('zii.widgets.CMenu', true);


class Menu extends CMenu

{

    protected function renderMenu($items)

    {

        // your code there.

    }

}

And I wish you good luck in studying Yii this year ;)