Keeping parent menu items active in child pages

This is how I sat the active state in a helper file, I' am sure you can add a new method for the child pages.

PHP Code:

/**
 * ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * active_link()
 *
 * Sets the active links
 *
 * Usage HTML Code:
 *
 * <li <?php echo active_link('Welcome');?>>
 *
 * @access    public
 * @param    string
 * @return    string
 */
if ( ! function_exists('active_link'))
{
    function active_link($controller)
    {
        $_ci = get_instance();
        $class = $_ci->router->fetch_class();
        return ($class == $controller) ? ' class="active"' : '';
    }
} 


active_link is your page name.

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