Creating a Nav Menu

Question

I'm attempting to take the following array and create what is the same version of my static HTML version of my navigation. I added the HTML to show what it looks like for a category to not have any children and be by itself and how it looks when a category has children items. I've started but am now trying to figure out with the hasSubmenu.

Database Query Result

array(3) {
    [0]=> object(stdClass)#24 (3) {
        ["category_id"]=> string(1) "1"
        ["category_name"]=> string(9) "Dashboard"
        ["category_class"]=> string(9) "dashboard"
    }
    [1]=> object(stdClass)#24 (3) {
        ["category_id"]=> string(1) "2"
        ["category_name"]=> string(5) "Users"
        ["category_class"]=> string(5) "users"
    }
    [2]=> object(stdClass)#24 (3) {
        ["category_id"]=> string(1) "3"
        ["category_name"]=> string(5) "Pages"
        ["category_class"]=> string(5) "pages"
        ["links"]=> array(2) {
            [0]=> object(stdClass)#24 (2) {
                ["item_id"]=> string(1) "1"
                ["item_name"]=> string(5) "Admin Pages"
            [1]=> object(stdClass)#24 (2) {
                ["item_id"]=> string(1) "2"
                ["item_name"]=> string(5) "User Pages"
            }
        }
    }
}

HTML Generated Navigation

<li class="active"><a href="" class="glyphicons dashboard"><i></i><span>Dashboard</span></a></li>
<li class="hasSubmenu">
    <a href="#menu_pages" data-toggle="collapse" class="glyphicons page"><i></i><span>Pages</span><span class="icon-chevron-down"></span></a>
    <ul class="collapse" id="menu_pages">
        <!-- Components Submenu Regular Items -->
        <li class=""><a href="">Item 1</a></li>
        <li class=""><a href="">Item 2</a></li>
        <li class=""><a href="">Item 3</a></li>
        <li class=""><a href="">Item 4</a></li>
        <!-- // Components Submenu Regular Items END -->
    </ul>
</li>

PHP Started Navigation

foreach ($dashboard_menu_categories AS $category)
{
    echo '<li>';
    if (isset($category->links))
    {
        echo '<ul class="collapse" id="menu_'.$category->category_short_name.'">';
        /* Components Submenu Regular Items */
        foreach($category->links AS $item)
        {
            echo '<li class=""><a href="">'.$item->item_name.'</a></li>';
        }
        /* Components Submenu Regular Items END */
        echo '</ul>';
    }
    echo '<a href="" class="glyphicons '.$category->category_class.'"><i></i><span>'.$category->category_name.'</span></a>';
    echo '</li>';
}

What is the specific problem you've encountered?

bjb568
– bjb568

2013-11-17 06:09:52 +00:00
Commented Nov 17, 2013 at 6:09 — bjb568
– bjb568, Commented Nov 17, 2013 at 6:09
Trying to get my php to match my HTML

user2576961
– user2576961

2013-11-17 06:36:43 +00:00
Commented Nov 17, 2013 at 6:36 — user2576961
– user2576961, Commented Nov 17, 2013 at 6:36
What is the specific problem you've encountered?

bjb568
– bjb568

2013-11-17 07:01:45 +00:00
Commented Nov 17, 2013 at 7:01 — bjb568
– bjb568, Commented Nov 17, 2013 at 7:01

omma2289 · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-17 07:00:21Z

You just need to use conditionals for the classes/attributes that are added to the categories with submenus:

foreach ($dashboard_menu_categories AS $category)
{
    $hasSubmenu = isset($category->links);

    echo '<li class="'.($hasSubmenu ? 'hasSubmenu' : '').'">';
    echo '<a href=""'.($hasSubmenu ? ' data-toggle="collapse"' : '').' class="glyphicons '.$category->category_class.'"><i></i><span>'.$category->category_name.'</span>';
    if($hasSubmenu)
        echo '<span class="icon-chevron-down"></span>';
    echo '</a>';
    if ($hasSubmenu)
    {
        echo '<ul class="collapse" id="menu_'.$category->category_short_name.'">';
        /* Components Submenu Regular Items */
        foreach($category->links AS $item)
        {
            echo '<li class=""><a href="">'.$item->item_name.'</a></li>';
        }
        /* Components Submenu Regular Items END */
        echo '</ul>';
    }
    echo '</li>';
}

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