Re: Dynamic menu content in layout

2014-03-06 Thread Art Sir
nice!! i was looking for this information as well. On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 4:58:21 PM UTC-5, euromark wrote: > > Take a look at the ideas here: > https://github.com/MenschDankeGmbH/cake-menu_builder > Maybe that helps. > > > Am Samstag, 22. Februar 2014 11:46:16 UTC+1 schrieb Sam Clauw: >>

Re: Dynamic menu content in layout

2014-02-28 Thread Dr. Tarique Sani
What you are really wanting is the ViewModel. CakePHP does not implement that explicitly but you can get the same functionality by creating a helper and accessing your model in the helper keeping the view clean. HTH Tarique On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Sam Clauw wrote: > Okay, let's supp

Re: Dynamic menu content in layout

2014-02-26 Thread euromark
Take a look at the ideas here: https://github.com/MenschDankeGmbH/cake-menu_builder Maybe that helps. Am Samstag, 22. Februar 2014 11:46:16 UTC+1 schrieb Sam Clauw: > > What I'm trying to do is to put two dynamic navigation menus in my CakePHP > layout (default.ctp). The main menu should have mu

Re: Dynamic menu content in layout

2014-02-26 Thread Thomas von Hassel
No, you don't want to anything in the view that involves querying the database. The controller action for that given page should know what menu to fetch from database and set that to the view. /thomas On 26 Feb 2014, at 20:39, Sam Clauw wrote: > Okay, let's suppose I want to put my menu in

Re: Dynamic menu content in layout

2014-02-26 Thread Sam Clauw
Okay, let's suppose I want to put my menu in an element called "top_menu.ctp". I want to get my data out of the database, so probably, I shouldn't connect with my database in that .ctp file. I wonder if that's the right way to do so? MVC normally split us the model logic and the view logic, but

Re: Dynamic menu content in layout

2014-02-22 Thread Salines
hi, You can put the tree menu directly in the layout or in a separate menu elements and include them in a specific place on your layout. If you want to highlight active link in your menu, you can do the following: // menu ..link to contacts views ..link to contacts views ... // in Posts/

Dynamic menu content in layout

2014-02-22 Thread Sam Clauw
What I'm trying to do is to put two dynamic navigation menus in my CakePHP layout (default.ctp). The main menu should have multiple levels (with a dropdown functionality). The secondary menu is the one that shows the dropdown content of the main menu in a left sidebar. I've read the CakePHP d