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Dan
Dan

Reputation: 997

Using multiple values with strstr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']...)

another simple thing that's got me stuck:

I'm using the following to check on the current url and select a div class dependent on the result:

$checkit = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
... 
<li "; if(strstr($checkit,'welcome')) { echo "class='active_tab'"; }...

What I want to be able to do is also check if the url includes other words which would also require that same 'li' item to be given the 'active_tab' class, but i can't figure out the format. Something like this, although obviously this doesn't work:

<li "; if(strstr($checkit,'welcome', 'home', 'yourprofile')) { echo "class='active_tab'"; }...

Can someone help?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1123

Answers (1)

Martin Lyne
Martin Lyne

Reputation: 3065

I know there's a better way but stop-gap fix would be:

$searchStrings = array('welcome','home','yourprofile');
$stringFound = false;
foreach($searchStrings as $checkString)
{
  if(strstr($checkit, $checkString))
  {
    $stringFound = true;
    break;
  }
}

Then use $stringFound to change your output.

Edit 1: Switched continuefor break thanks ZombieHunter (It's late -_-)

Edit 2: Alternatively you can use a regular expression (though I think that's overkill here)

if(preg_match('/(welcome|home|your profile)/',$checkit))
{
 // Do your stuff here
}

But this is not as expressive (easier to read and extend an array) and if those values start piling up its easier to hook the array into some storage like DB query.

Upvotes: 1

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