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    <p>I'm trying to determine the best way of using PHP to assign the classes of my tabbed menu items.</p> <p>What I've read so far on the subject here and elsewhere seems to only determine very simplistic cases. I need to have an active class for the tab when you're on it's page and I also need a disabled class for the tab on accounts without access to that feature (based on a session flag).</p> <p>Originally, I just echoed out everything like this:</p> <pre><code> &lt;?php echo '&lt;li class="some-tab ';if($pageName === "somepage.php"){echo'active';} if(!$_SESSION['some_flag']){echo'disabled'; echo'"&gt;&lt;a href=""&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;';} ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>But then code shame set in and I'm trying to really start using PHP like templating engine. That said, I do not want to use an actual templating engine.</p> <p>For any other part of the HTML, hopping in and out of PHP is easy and relatively elegant, but when it comes to getting classes to work, it's feels clunky. It completely pollutes the markup and leaves me with way too much logic in my template.</p> <p>Like so:</p> <pre><code>&lt;li class="some-tab &lt;? if($pageName === "somepage.php"){echo'active';} ?&gt;&lt;/li&gt; </code></pre> <p>Not terrible but add a few more rules and it becomes a mess.</p> <p>My first thought is creating an associative array and just echoing it's contents:</p> <pre><code>&lt;? if(some condition){ $class = array("sometab" =&gt; "sometab active disabled"); } else{ $class = array("sometab" =&gt; "sometab"); } ?&gt; &lt;li class="&lt;?= $class['sometab'] ?&gt;"&gt; &lt;/li&gt; </code></pre> <p>But I feel like it may be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle" rel="nofollow">too clever</a>.</p> <p>I want to avoid storing information in the body class or as Javascript cookies as suggested by some because I'm not just fetching the URL.</p> <p>Is there an option I'm missing? </p> <p>Is a class array appropriate in the slightest? I don't have the experience to know if it's a horrible idea or not.</p>
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    1. COSounds like you need to start looking into PHP frameworks if you're not already using one. Then you could run all your checks in the controller and just pass a variable to the view which adds the required class in.
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    2. COI'm not sure what you're trying. Your first two examples had conditionals based on the `$pagename` and a session variable, but your associative array example doesn't do anything like that.
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    3. CO@Barmar You're right. I was trying to communicate that I would do the logic somewhere else. I clarified that.
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