Just do a find on your NavMenu in the model you are driving your view
from, and then you can access the data from your element.
I do this on my site in my "jobs" view, where I want to display a
couple differently filtered lists of "job slots". I populate the lists
into $userSlots and $availableSlots in my jobs_controller, then in my
view, I use the same element to display them by passing in those two
data sets:
<?php if (isset($userSlots)):?>
<h3><?php __('You are signed up for');?></h3>
<?php echo $this->element('signup_list', array( 'slots' =>
$userSlots )); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<h3><?php __('Available Time Slots for '. $job['Job']
['job_name']);?></h3>
<?php if (isset($availableSlots)):?>
<?php echo $this->element('signup_list', array( 'slots' =>
$availableSlots )); ?>
<?php else: ?>
<h3>Nobody signed up for this job yet</h3>
<?php endif; ?>
On Dec 7, 8:08 am, Rob Wilkerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 7, 10:59 am, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Elements are definitely the way to go. I make extensive use of
> > elements for common display items.
>
> Okay, good. At least I'm not _way_ off base, then. Now, the follow-on
> question is this: how do I make an element data-driven? In my case,
> I'd want my element to have access to the NavMenu model in order to
> retrieve the items in any given menu. I haven't found much (read:
> anything) documented on this.
>
> > On the other hand, if you are just driving a common navigation, I'm
> > not sure you need an element since it can just go directly into the
> > layout.
>
> Except that it's data-driven and exists with slight variations in 3
> different locations within the layout.
>
> Thanks again.
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