Re: Navigation element
I would recommend another way. gwoo's solution means a request to the
db every time(!) the navigation is shown. IMHO too much db-action. I
would create a function in the controls controller like
function updateNavigation() {
$entries = $this-Control-findAll();
$string = 'ul';
foreach ($entries as $key = $value) {
$string .= li?php echo \$html-link('Link text', '/url/to/
page/') ?/li\r\n;
}
$string = '/ul';
// rewriting the thtml-file of the navigation-element.
$fp =
fopen(ROOT.DS.APP_DIR.DS.'views'.DS.'elements'.DS.'navigation.thtml',
'r+');
ftruncate($fp, 0);
fputs($fp, $string);
fclose($fp);
}
Call this function with every create and update (e.g. in add(),
edit()) and it rewrites your navigation element with the newest data.
so most of the request on the navigation do not need a db request.
I use this in several apps and it works pretty good and saves
ressources of your db.
On 20 Mrz., 01:19, gwoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has come up a lot lately for some reason. I guess because there
are not enough examples.
Personally, I would setup and element. Lets calll it /app/views/
elements/menu.thtml
add to this:
$controls = $this-requestAction('controls/index');
foreach($controls as $control) {
//do whatever}
very simply this asks the controls controller to return the index
method so you can display the data however you want
?php
class ContolsController extends AppController {
function index() {
$contols = $this-Control-findAll();
//here is where the requesAction is handled so only the data is
returned
if(isset($this-params['requested'])) {
return $controls;
}
$this-set('controls', $controls);
}
}
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Re: Navigation element
Following the same example, I've come up with something more dynamic -
but unfortunatly I cannot seem to get it to work, can anyone help me?
First of all, I call the element:
?php echo $this-renderElement('topmenu'); ?
Then in the element, I call my menu section manager and request all
menu's (through a hABTM association) to an array:
ul
?php
$menus = $this-requestAction('sections/rendermenu/topnav');
print_r(output: . $menus);
foreach($menus['Section']['Menu'] as $menu) {
print li;
if ($menu['path'] == $this-here){
echo
$html-link($menu['name'],$menu['path'],'class=active');
}else{
echo $html-link($menu['name'],$menu['path']);
}
print /li;
}
?
/ul
The last param calls the search in the controller:
?php
class SectionsController extends AppController
{
var $name = Sections;
function rendermenu($id)
{
$menus = $this-Section-findAll(array('name'=$id));
if(isset($this-params['requested'])) {
return $menus;
}
$this-set('menus', $menus);
//print_r($menus);
}
}
?
Now, I get an array back, but I get a foreach error:
Array ( [0] = Array ( [Section] = Array ( [id] = 1 [name] = topnav
) [Menu] = Array ( [0] = Array ( [id] = 1 [name] = Home [path] =
/ ) [1] = Array ( [id] = 2 [name] = News [path] = /posts/ ) ) ) )
Warning (2): Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
[CORE/app/views/elements/topmenu.ctp, line 5
Anyone?
Thanks very much,
Tane
On 3/20/07, stevenoone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried this solution and whaddya know: if worked! here's my code.
//invoke menu element
?php echo $this-renderElement('menu'); ?
//menu.thtml
ul
?php
$controls = $this-requestAction('controls/navindex');
foreach($controls as $control) {
print li;
if ($control['Control']['path'] == $this-here){
echo
$html-link($control['Control']['name'],$control['Control']
['path'],'class=active');
}else{
echo
$html-link($control['Control']['name'],$control['Control']
['path']);
}
print /li;
}
?
/ul
On Mar 19, 5:19 pm, gwoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has come up a lot lately for some reason. I guess because there
are not enough examples.
Personally, I would setup and element. Lets calll it /app/views/
elements/menu.thtml
add to this:
$controls = $this-requestAction('controls/index');
foreach($controls as $control) {
//do whatever}
very simply this asks the controls controller to return the index
method so you can display the data however you want
?php
class ContolsController extends AppController {
function index() {
$contols = $this-Control-findAll();
//here is where the requesAction is handled so only the data is
returned
if(isset($this-params['requested'])) {
return $controls;
}
$this-set('controls', $controls);
}
}
?
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Re: Navigation element
foreach($menus['Section']['Menu'] as $menu) {
Hi,
it' hard to read code in the google layout... especially pr()
output...;)
looks like the array is numeric...
try:
foreach($menus as $menu) {
echo $menu['Section']['id'];
pr($menu['Menu']);
...
}
greets,
f.
Array (
[0] = Array (
[Section] = Array (
[id] = 1
[name] = topnav
)
[Menu] = Array (
[0] = Array (
[id] = 1
[name] = Home
[path] = /
)
[1] = Array (
[id] = 2
[name] = News
[path] = /posts/
)
)
)
)
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Re: Navigation element
Ok, well in my controller, before I pass anything I print_r my
variable, and the output looks like this:
Array (
[0] = Array (
[Section] = Array (
[id] = 1 [name] = topnav )
[Menu] = Array (
[0] = Array (
[id] = 1 [name] = Home [path] = / )
[1] = Array (
[id] = 1 [name] = Home [path] = / )
)
)
)
It does look rather skew-wiff to me. Here is my model:
class Section extends AppModel {
var $name = 'Section';
var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
'Menu' = array('className' = 'Menu',
'joinTable' = 'menus_sections',
'foreignKey' = 'section_id',
'associationForeignKey' =
'section_id',
),
);
}
So my Section model has a id and a name. Menu model has a id, name
and path, and the join table (menus_sections) has a menu_id and
section_id.
On 3/20/07, f. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
foreach($menus['Section']['Menu'] as $menu) {
Hi,
it' hard to read code in the google layout... especially pr()
output...;)
looks like the array is numeric...
try:
foreach($menus as $menu) {
echo $menu['Section']['id'];
pr($menu['Menu']);
...
}
greets,
f.
Array (
[0] = Array (
[Section] = Array (
[id] = 1
[name] = topnav
)
[Menu] = Array (
[0] = Array (
[id] = 1
[name] = Home
[path] = /
)
[1] = Array (
[id] = 2
[name] = News
[path] = /posts/
)
)
)
)
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Re: Navigation element
@sunertl
you would do better to use cache function. Also, realize that a small
db query is not that painful. In any case, in 1.2 you can now cache an
element using the $this-element('whatever', array('cache'='+1 day'));
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Re: Navigation element
On 3/20/07, gwoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
@sunertl
you would do better to use cache function. Also, realize that a small
db query is not that painful. In any case, in 1.2 you can now cache an
element using the $this-element('whatever', array('cache'='+1 day'));
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Re: Navigation element
I'd say, likely you'll create a Model called Control And to get the list of menu items, use either the methods find() or findAll() to get data from the the Control Model instance. Explaining more than that would not help you.. make sure if you have not, you have run through the Blog Tutorial, and make sure you understand the basics of how the CakePHP framework works. http://manual.cakephp.org/appendix/blog_tutorial --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake PHP group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Navigation element
This has come up a lot lately for some reason. I guess because there
are not enough examples.
Personally, I would setup and element. Lets calll it /app/views/
elements/menu.thtml
add to this:
$controls = $this-requestAction('controls/index');
foreach($controls as $control) {
//do whatever
}
very simply this asks the controls controller to return the index
method so you can display the data however you want
?php
class ContolsController extends AppController {
function index() {
$contols = $this-Control-findAll();
//here is where the requesAction is handled so only the data is
returned
if(isset($this-params['requested'])) {
return $controls;
}
$this-set('controls', $controls);
}
}
?
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Re: Navigation element
I tried this solution and whaddya know: if worked! here's my code.
//invoke menu element
?php echo $this-renderElement('menu'); ?
//menu.thtml
ul
?php
$controls = $this-requestAction('controls/navindex');
foreach($controls as $control) {
print li;
if ($control['Control']['path'] == $this-here){
echo
$html-link($control['Control']['name'],$control['Control']
['path'],'class=active');
}else{
echo
$html-link($control['Control']['name'],$control['Control']
['path']);
}
print /li;
}
?
/ul
On Mar 19, 5:19 pm, gwoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has come up a lot lately for some reason. I guess because there
are not enough examples.
Personally, I would setup and element. Lets calll it /app/views/
elements/menu.thtml
add to this:
$controls = $this-requestAction('controls/index');
foreach($controls as $control) {
//do whatever}
very simply this asks the controls controller to return the index
method so you can display the data however you want
?php
class ContolsController extends AppController {
function index() {
$contols = $this-Control-findAll();
//here is where the requesAction is handled so only the data is
returned
if(isset($this-params['requested'])) {
return $controls;
}
$this-set('controls', $controls);
}
}
?
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