Q:

navigation menu class active with php basename($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]

I have looked through all the questions here, but can't find the answer to this question.
I am sure it is a simple answer.
I have navigation menu, which is a PHP file and is included on each page.
I add a class active (I actually call it class current) using the following:
<a class="menu-nav <?php if (basename($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]) == '/past-events/index.php') echo "current";?>" href="http://website.com.au/past-events">PAST EVENTS</a>

This works fine for all the other pages because they are in the root directory,
(actually with the other pages I use basename($_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] )
but with the above page, because it is in the 'past-events' directory, it is not working.
I have tried:
<a class="menu-nav <?php if (basename($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]) == '/past-events/') echo "current";?>" href="http://website.com.au/past-events">PAST EVENTS</a>

but to no avail.
I should mention that the code is in a file called nav.php that lives in a foldr called 'includes' and is brought into each file that needs it using a php include
Can anyone see what I am doing wrong here?
Cheers, Al

A:

Thank you all for your time and effort in trying to help me.
I ended up adding:
<?php print $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; ?>

to the page /past-events/index.php and found that it printed '/past-events/'
so all I needed to do was get rid of the basename() and it worked fine:
<a class="menu-nav <?php if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] == "/past-events/") echo "current";?>" href="http://website.com/past-events">PAST EVENTS</a>

This will of course mean that all files in this directory will get class="current" but this suits my design just fine.
Again, thank you for taking the time to help me.
Cheers, Al.

