Get current page so I can set the style to "active" in menu?

[eluser]See64[/eluser]
I just can't find how to do this simple thing best: I am including a view called menu.php in my default view. Here I build the navigation according to your rights. This all works great, except how do I set the current page's class to something else? There is nothing in the URL helper to return the current page, and searching the forums didn't bring up anything, so I'm at a loss.