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Gets the active menu item.

The active menu reflects the link of the current page, provided there’s a link to it in one of the visible menus.

object The &getActive ()

// get the Singleton instance
$menu   = &JMenu::getInstance();

// get the active menu item
$active = &$menu->getActive();
echo '<a href="', $active->link , '">', $active->name ,'</a>';

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