A KnpMenu seasoned plugin that assists with creating menus for your CakePHP applications.
- CakePHP 3.1+
- KnpMenu 2.0+
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Use Composer to add the menu plugin to your project:
$ composer require icings/menu
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Make sure that you are loading the plugin in your bootstrap, either run:
$ bin/cake plugin load Icings/Menu
or add the following call to your applications
config/bootstrap.php
manually:Plugin::load('Icings/Menu');
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Load the helper in your
AppView
class'initialize()
method:$this->loadHelper('Icings/Menu.Menu');
Detailed usage documentation can be found in the docs folder. For those that are familiar with CakePHP and KnpMenu, here's two examples for a quick start.
Build and render the menu via the helpers create()
and render()
methods:
$menu = $this->Menu->create('main');
$menu->addChild('Home', ['uri' => ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'display', 'home']]);
$menu->addChild('About', ['uri' => ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'display', 'about']]);
$menu->addChild('Services', ['uri' => '#']);
$menu['Services']->addChild('Research', ['uri' => ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'display', 'research']]);
$menu['Services']->addChild('Security', ['uri' => ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'display', 'security']]);
$menu->addChild('Contact', ['uri' => ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'display', 'contact']]);
echo $this->Menu->render();
In the default setup, this would generate the following HTML:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="/pages/display/home">Home</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/pages/display/about">About</a>
</li>
<li class="has-dropdown">
<a href="#">Services</a>
<ul class="dropdown">
<li>
<a href="/pages/display/research">Research</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/pages/display/security">Security</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/pages/display/contact">Contact</a>
</li>
</ul>
Aside from using the menu helper and its various configuration possibilities, it's also possible to manually utilize the library provided by this plugin, optionally combining things with the KnpMenu library:
use Icings\Menu\Integration\PerItemVotersExtension;
use Icings\Menu\Integration\RoutingExtension;
use Icings\Menu\Integration\TemplaterExtension;
use Icings\Menu\Matcher\Matcher;
use Icings\Menu\Matcher\Voter\UrlVoter;
use Icings\Menu\MenuFactory;
use Icings\Menu\Renderer\StringTemplateRenderer;
$factory = new MenuFactory();
$factory->addExtension(new RoutingExtension());
$factory->addExtension(new PerItemVotersExtension());
$factory->addExtension(new TemplaterExtension());
$menu = $factory->createItem('main');
$menu->addChild('Home', ['uri' => ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'display', 'home']]);
$menu->addChild('About', ['uri' => ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'display', 'about']]);
$menu->addChild('Services', ['uri' => '#']);
$menu['Services']->addChild('Research', ['uri' => ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'display', 'research']]);
$menu['Services']->addChild('Security', ['uri' => ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'display', 'security']]);
$menu->addChild('Contact', ['uri' => ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'display', 'contact']]);
$matcher = new Matcher();
$matcher->addVoter(new UrlVoter($this->request));
$renderer = new StringTemplateRenderer($matcher);
echo $renderer->render($menu);
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