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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Building a Media Library in PHP Adding Active States to the Navigation

Aakash Srivastava
Aakash Srivastava
5,415 Points
Posted by Aakash Srivastava
Aakash Srivastava
5,415 Points

Adding active states to the Navigation

I am wondering :
Why do we need to add $section = null to index.php ?
When $suggest variable doesn't exist in index.php file , none of the link should be underlined , but instead all the links are getting underlined.
Why?

Thanks

Christian Schou
Christian Schou
9,208 Points
Christian Schou
Christian Schou
9,208 Points

Hi Aakash,

It is because the server sees the value as true, when we don't specify the $section value to null / false in this case. So when not defining the section to be "turned off" it will automatically set the variable to true and insert the " on" text for the CSS class.

Hope this helps you :)