Question

Well lets try to explain am sorry about my english.

I have some xml files where I get the url from with some php scripts

everything goes right the only prob is i want to change the li BGcolor of the selected link like in css :active or giving only that link eg a class=”current”

this below make dynamically the urls to the data

echo "<ul><li ><a  href='?xml1=".$xmlGet."&link=".$link." '>".$slide->title."</a></li></ul><br/>";

with the above i get a list of links not only one like below as urls

http://localhost/html5/playerEnd/hoofdstuks.php?xml1=chapter_3733&link=1
http://localhost/html5/playerEnd/hoofdstuks.php?xml1=chapter_3733&link=2
http://localhost/html5/playerEnd/hoofdstuks.php?xml1=chapter_3733&link=3
etc etc 

and it display as menu like this

link 1
link 2
link 3
link 4
etc etc

each link load a different data to my page when clicked so i want the one clicked to be active like an other color or something.

Answer 1

Use $_GET['link'] to find out which link has been clicked. Then add a class to the link which corresponds to this. You’ll have to define the active class.

$linkID = $_GET['link'];

echo "<ul><li ><a  href='?xml1=".$xmlGet."&link=".$link." '";

if ($linkID == $link) { echo " class=\"active\" "; }

echo ">".$slide->title."</a></li></ul><br/>";

And if you want the li to have the class (as asked in comments):

$linkID = $_GET['link'];

echo "<ul><li";

if ($linkID == $link) { echo " class=\"active\" "; }

echo "><a  href='?xml1=".$xmlGet."&link=".$link."'>".$slide->title."</a></li></ul><br/>";