Insert actvie css-class in a menu

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Insert actvie css-class in a menu - El Forum - 09-27-2009

[eluser]überfuzz[/eluser]
I have a menu where there are some css-classes that are showing active link. The owner of the site want to have a link marked as active as default. At the moment I muster this in the view-file like this:

Code:
&lt;?php foreach ($menu AS $value) //the array menu is stated in config and holds; segment, name and atribute. 

{

   $temp_seg = $this->uri->segment(1) ? $this->uri->segment(1) : 'home';

   $class = ($temp_seg == $value['segment']) ? 'active' : '';

}

?&gt;

            <li class="&lt;?php echo $value['attribute']; echo $class; ?&gt;"><a href="&lt;?php echo base_url() . $value['segment']; ?&gt;" class="menu_font">&lt;?php echo $value['name']; ?&gt;</a></li>

I'm thinking about moving parts of this to a model called systemdata and the MY_Controller, but I'm not exactly 100% sure of how and where I should insert the active css-class. So I just have to echo-loop the menu in the view-file.

Some ideas I have:
1. Put the loop in the config-file. No, I don't like to mess about with loops in config.php
2. Render it in the system model, when it's fetched from config.
3. render it in the MY_Controller, when it's received from model(system.php).

2 and 3 would mean that I have to loop through the array twice along the way just to get the menu ouput in the view-file. I've got one argument for doing it in the model, it's how I usually do this.

The question would be something like, is there a nifty way of doing this..?

Insert actvie css-class in a menu - El Forum - 09-28-2009

[eluser]überfuzz[/eluser]
I could display the other way a was talking about, to explain my question better.

Code:
//view-file

        <ul>

&lt;?php foreach ($menu AS $value): ?&gt;

            <li class="&lt;?php echo $value['attribute']; echo $value['class']; ?&gt;"><a href="&lt;?php echo base_url() . $value['segment']; ?&gt;" class="menu_font">&lt;?php echo $value['name']; ?&gt;</a></li>

&lt;?php endforeach; ?&gt;

        </ul>

In the model I merge in some new keys.

Code:
//systemdata.php

        foreach($this->config->item('menu') AS $i => $value)

        {

            $temp_seg = $this->uri->segment(1) ? $this->uri->segment(1) : 'hem';

            $menu[$i]['class'] = ($temp_seg == $value['segment']) ? 'Selected' : '';

        }

        return $menu;