Question

I have a navigation, where I echo out the class based on the variable on the page.

<ul class="nav">
   <li class="<?php echo ($page == 'home' ? 'active' : 'inactive'); ?>" class="nav-active"><a href="/" title="Home Page">Home</a></li>
   <li class="<?php echo ($page == 'home' ? 'active' : 'inactive'); ?>" class="nav-active"><a href="/" title="Another Page Page">Another Page</a></li>

</ul>

I am new to PHP and I’m trying to figure out how I’ would make it into a function so I can just called it and add the arguments.

<li class="<php activeNav($page, $current); ?>">

Can someone explain how to do this? And sorry for not giving a very descriptive title, don’t know what to call it.

Answer 1

I don’t see why this would improve your code, but you can try this:

PHP:

function activeNav($page, $current) {
    return ($page == $current) ? "active" : "inactive";
}

HTML:

<li class="<?php echo activeNav($page, 'home'); ?>">