Question

I am trying to create bold links in a menu depending on which page the visitor is currently on. I managed to get it working with the following code, but the problem is that my code has the possibility of sub-menus under options, so links may be:

index.php?page=category
index.php?page=category&subcategory=something
index.php?page=category&subcategory=somethingelse

The subcategories are working fine, but the problem is, I have no way of matching “index.php?page=category” because then both subcategories “something” and “somethingelse” also go bold.

Is there any way to match the exact string of “page=category” but no further?

<?
$urlstring = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
if (preg_match ("/page=category/i", $urlstring)) {
echo "<b>";
}
?>

Answer 1

Yeah just use $_GET['page']

Also, you might want to apply a class with boldness to whatever element you’re bolding rather than using <b> (you have more control over the style, you could even alter the color)

Cheers
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