Comments on: Zend_Navigation Tricks: True tab navigation with sub menus – Part 1

By: Grant Perry

Grant Perry — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:34:13 +0000

John thanks for your suggestions – I’ll take another look to see if I can simplify this solution.

At the time of writing I had thought I’d explored all of the simple ZF built ins, but didn’t have any luck. Most attempts produced results that weren’t quite what I was after with HTML which is why I ended up using partials for their greater flexibility.

E.g. For the top level nav I was looking to render the items from 2 depths in a single level of a < .ul.> for the simplicity of my CSS, I believe using the setMaxDepth(0) here would render it as nested < .ul.>‘s?

As for your suggestion for the sub navigation I’ll test it out and see if it has the desired result!

By: John

John — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:47:43 +0000

This can all be much more easily done without partials and PHP code.

In your top level nav for your tabs just add:

echo $this->navigation()->menu()->setMaxDepth(0);

Then in the sub-navigation just add:

echo $this->navigation()->menu()->setMinDepth(1)->setMaxDepth(1)->setOnlyActiveBranch(1)->setRenderParents(false);

Voila. Done :) All you’ll need to do is define how the unordered list styles and list items should be displayed. Then set a class for active on a list item and you’ll be all set.

No need for php code in partials to do something that Zend Framework already has built in! :)

By: Grant Perry

Grant Perry — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:52:37 +0000

Hi Jan. There is a getPrivilege() method on $page from Zend_Navigation_Page. I understand Zend_Navigation and Zend_Acl work well together so I suspect this will help you figure out what you’re trying to do… Presuming getPrivilege() does what I’d have though, you’d use an if statement deciding whether or not to echo the list item tags. I hope this helps sorry I haven’t had to do this yet with the tabs myself.

By: Jan Malte

Jan Malte — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:36:00 +0000

could you just tell us how to extend your nav1.phtml to use ACL for just displaying the tabs which the user has the permission to access?

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