A menu controlled via file system following UNIX principle 'everything is a file'.
- No need to hard code, maintain a menu.
- Add a file to a folder on the webserver (e.g. via
scp
) and it shows immediately e.g. as a new PDF file download. - Quickly hide a menu entry by just hiding the corresponding file on the webserver.
- Do not link but copy
DynamicMenu.class.php
into the website folder.cp ../dynamic_menu/DynamicMenu.class.php .
- Copy the
dynamicmenu.cfg.php
templatecp ../dynamic_menu/dynamicmenu.cfg.php .
- Customize the configuration e.g. provide more exceptions.
- Include within the site's PHP, e.g.
<nav id="main-nav" class="navbar-collapse "> <?php include("dynamicmenu.config.php"); include("DynamicMenu.class.php"); ?> </nav>
- Now if a file is created, e.g. a folder that contains an index.{php,htm}, the file name shows in the menu and links to it if it is not in the exceptions and the file is not hidden by prepending a "." or a "#" to the file name.