debuggable

It is imho bad style to have such logic in your view, put it in a helper. Then you can even test your logic with some unit tests ;-)

I haven´t found the ultimate solution to navigations yet.

I started using a menu controller which holds its item inside a modified preeorder tree.

this way i can easily access all parent items (important in deeper nested structures) but i did not tackle the dynamic url mapping (like static in your array) yet.

Felix Geisendorfer's Blog: MacGyver menu for CakePHP - What’s the active menu item?...

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[...] In a new post to his blog today, Felix Geisendorfer talks about view coding - specifically working with a menu and determining which element is active. One of the challenges many of us have faced before and will face in future is building a menu. Now this of course is very simple assuming that we’re just shooting for a static <ul> with some <li>’s containing the links. However the tricky part is to figure out what is the active menu item. I had some code doing this in the past but tried out a new flavor of it today which I call the MacGyver menu for CakePHP as it’s a little dirty yet powerful and easy to maintain. [...]

Felix -
Cool post, glad to see how others are approaching this problem. Here's my jQuery solution: http://bin.cakephp.org/saved/21747

hey Felix,

Have created a helper in cakeforge based on your code, hope you don't mind, it was too useful to leave here alone!

http://cakeforge.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=194

Thanks,

Jon

Hi Felix,

It's probably worth mentioning that in 1.2, if you use arrays for your urls this gets a lot simpler

(ref: http://www.ad7six.com/MiBlog/MakingTheMostOfTheRouter)

Using this logic you can loop on a menu and in brief:

if $url['plugin'] == $this->plugin
Then you are in the same plugin*

if $url['controller'] == $this->name
Then you are in the same controller

if $url['action'] == $this->action
Then you are in the same function

This doesn't work without a minor change to the router, but I'll mention it anyway
if $url == Router::url(array())

The link is to the page you are currently on

Even if you don't use arrays for your urls you can still make use of this by passing the url to the router to get the url back as an array to then test it.

hth,

AD
*Plugin routes don't work atm unless you add a patch (see tickets)

I have menu definition in database
AppController::beforeRender detects which menu items should be showed and which is active, base on $this->params['controller'] and $this->params['action'] (actually model just returns array of such items :D)

Then layout handles menu drawings :D

So I don't have navigation stuff in real controllers not its views

[...] In a recent post Felix Geissendörfer presented the “MacGyver Menu”. He put the menu logic directly in the view and wrote: If your menu logic is more complex […] I suggest you to create either an element or an helper for it. [...]

Hey Felix, I seem to have hit a snag with the URL matching, it's not matching URLs without a trailing / - any ideas what the route might be?

http://cakeforge.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=194

Thanks,

Jon

I meant 'route cause' above, not just 'route' - doh :)

I've modified the above code, is simpler now and faster i think, because preg_match is no longer used, and wrote a helper-method.

You have to use the HtmlHelper in your helper:
var $helpers = array('Html');

And add the method:
http://bin.cakephp.org/view/915506280

But i hope gwoo is going to add it to the HtmlHelper itself :)

May seem like a dumb question, but I am still wet behind the ears with CakePHP and am still getting used to views, controllers and basic inner workings of the framework, but how would I go about installing this and accessing/referencing it?

Everything I have been trying/reading leads to me adjusting the tags.ini.php file, which I cannot seem to locate in my install of Cake. I am sure this is very fundamental, but some guidance in this area would be appreciated and might help get the ball rolling for another community member.

Thanks!

I think its better/easier to use something like this:

- In your controller methods (index, view...):

$this->set('pageId', 'page_sample1');

- In your layout (or where your menu resides):

">

Sample 1
Sample 2

- And finally in your CSS:

#page_sample1 #mnuSample1 { /* styles to apply to active menu (equivalent to .active) }
#page_sample2 #mnuSample2 { /* styles to apply to active menu (equivalent to .active) }

Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks!

D'oh! fuc**ng html :)

I think its better/easier to use something like this:

- In your controller methods (index, view...):

$this->set('pageId', 'page_sample1');

- In your layout (or where your menu resides):

<body id="<? echo $pageId ?>">

<ul>
<li><a href="#" id="mnuSample1">Sample 1</a></li>

<li><a href="#" id="mnuSample2">Sample 2</a></li>

</ul>

- And finally in your CSS:

#page_sample1 #mnuSample1 { /* styles to apply to active menu (equivalent to .active) }
#page_sample2 #mnuSample2 { /* styles to apply to active menu (equivalent to .active) }

Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks!

I've been struggling to find the new solution to this problem. I've spend hours searching on google. Could you post a link to the new solution?

nice post, it's very help me :)

Thats great dude. But im new to cake and im trying to incorporate a reset password feature into my application which will send an email to the users, could you pls help me out with a sample code to look on??

Thanks, your code was really helpful!