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    copied!<p>I'm searching for a solution for automatic highlightning top menu items.</p> <p>Current situation looks like this: I have default menu stored in a .txt file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="index.php"&gt;HOME&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;MENU_1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="submenu_1.php"&gt;Submenu_1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="submenu_2.php"&gt;Submenu_2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;MENU_2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Submenu_1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="sub_submenu_1.php"&gt;Sub_Submenu_1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="sub_submenu_2.php"&gt;Sub_Submenu_2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;Submenu_2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="menu_3.php"&gt;MENU_3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="menu_4.php"&gt;MENU_4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; </code></pre> <p>So, when the <code>submenu</code>, or <code>sub_submenu</code>, or whatever item is a current page, I need its very top <code>MENU_X</code> parent item to be highlighted (as only the <code>MENU_X</code> items are visible on my page top bar).</p> <p>I made CSS style aplied to <code>MENU_X</code>, so when I set the top menu like:</p> <pre><code>&lt;li class="current"&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;MENU_1&lt;/a&gt; </code></pre> <p>it's highlighted by the <code>.current</code> CSS style.</p> <p>Now I'm searching for a PHP script which would do something like this (example only):</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $currentPage = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; $url_parts = Explode('/', $currentPage); $current_php_file = $url_parts[count($url_parts) - 1]; $raw_menu = file_get_contents("menu.txt"); $current_menu_item = '&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="' . $current_php_file . '"&gt;' $top_menuitem_of_current_page = someFunctionToFindOut(); //need some script to find out $highlighted_menu_item = '&lt;li class="current"&gt;&lt;a href="' . $top_menuitem_of_current_page . '"&gt;'; $ready_menu = str_replace($top_menuitem_of_current_page, $highlighted_menu_item, $raw_menu); echo $ready_menu; ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>The code above basically would do the trick, but I need to call some function <code>someFunctionToFindOut()</code> to find out what is the <code>$top_menuitem_of_current_page</code>.</p> <p>Any suggestions?</p>
 

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