Link to unless current -- possible in CI?

Question

In Ruby (forgive me for mentioning it's name), I noticed you could do a anchor link with "link to unless current", which would remove the link if it was the current page.

I know there's nothing built into CI to do something similar, but I'm trying to come up with the best way to do this. I've got a few options, but they're all too long and cumbersome.

Any ideas? Maybe using the URI segment?

Answer 1

You can

A. Use an if statement around the link

or

B. Make your own function

CodeIgniter is a significantly smaller framework than ruby on rails as far as features go. I doubt they have a copy of every useful function rails has.

Answer 2

Why not write your own helper that follows the html helper link_tag checker... put one more condition inside there to check if your in the current controller. Looking at codeIgniter with xdebug, the object returned by get_instance provides access to pretty much everything the controller had. so ci->router->uri->rsegments could be used to check for your controller action.

Edit: Sorry forgot the "uri" part in that chain above.