function l

Format an internal Drupal link.

This function correctly handles aliased paths, and allows themes to highlight links to the current page correctly, so all internal links output by modules should be generated by this function if possible.

Parameters

$text: The text to be enclosed with the anchor tag.

$path: The Drupal path being linked to, such as "admin/node".

$attributes: An associative array of HTML attributes to apply to the anchor tag.

$query: A query string to append to the link.

$fragment: A fragment identifier (named anchor) to append to the link.

$absolute: Whether to force the output to be an absolute link (beginning with http:). Useful for links that will be displayed outside the site, such as in an RSS feed.

$html: Whether the title is HTML, or just plain-text.

Return value

an HTML string containing a link to the given path.

Related topics

File

includes/common.inc, line 1563

Common functions that many Drupal modules will need to reference.

Code

function l($text, $path, $attributes = array(), $query = NULL, $fragment = NULL, $absolute = FALSE, $html = FALSE) {
  if (drupal_get_normal_path($path) == $_GET['q']) {
    if (isset($attributes['class'])) {
      $attributes['class'] .= ' active';
    }
    else {
      $attributes['class'] = 'active';
    }
  }
  return '<a href="' . check_url(url($path, $query, $fragment, $absolute)) . '"' . drupal_attributes($attributes) . '>' . ($html ? $text : check_plain($text)) . '</a>';
}