Add class active to menu item

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hello.

How to add a class active menu which has the form and cycle output from the database


<ul class="menu">

<li><a href="#">One Item</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Two Item</a></li>

<li><a href="#">Three Item</a></li>

</ul>

Thank you

2

Suppose your controller is ‘mycontroller’ and action is ‘myform’ (i.e. for url like /index.php?r=mycontroller/myform), try following code:




<ul class="menu">

<?php if(Yii::app()->controller->id == 'mycontroller'  && Yii::app()->controller->action->id == 'myform'):  ?>

      	<li class='active'><a href="#">One Item</a></li>

 <?php else: ?>

      	<li><a href="#">One Item</a></li>

 <?php endif; ?>

<?php if(Yii::app()->controller->id == 'mycontroller'  && Yii::app()->controller->action->id == 'myform'):  ?>

 		<li class='active'><a href="#">One Item</a></li>

 <?php else: ?>

      	<li><a href="#">Two Item</a></li>

 <?php endif; ?>

...

...

</ul>
3
  1. when controller - site and action - index, menu always highlighted

if(Yii::app()->controller->id == 'site'  && Yii::app()->controller->action->id == 'index')
  1. Each controller will have to register separately? and if they are 20 pieces or more?

isItemActive does not help in my case?

4

Hi you can make use of the CMenu widget it gives you that functionality out of the box

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CMenu/

5

Please check wiki, may be helpful for you.

One another solution is extending CMenu and creating custom menu… But how could you create menu, Please provide some code…

6

Here is my menu. What advise do in this case? About CMenu of course I know, but it’s not my variant


function menu($value) {

    echo '<ul>';

    foreach ($menus as $menu) {

        echo '<li><a href=' . $menu[link] . '>' . $menu[text] . '</a></li>';

    }

    echo '</ul>';

}
7

Please provide your ‘$menu[link]’ data also…

8

links as Yii


http://site.com/index.php?r=site/contact

or normal


http://www.google.com/
9

For links as YII use following code:





/*

 * for http://site.com/index.php?r=site/contact 

 * Yii::app()->controller->route gives us "site/contact"

 */

function menu($value) {

	echo '<ul>';

	foreach ($menus as $menu) {

    	if(strpos($menu[link], Yii::app()->controller->route) === false){

        	echo '<li><a href=' . $menu[link] . '>' . $menu[text] . '</a></li>';        	

    	}

    	else{

        	echo '<li class="active"><a href=' . $menu[link] . '>' . $menu[text] . '</a></li>';        	

    	}

	}

	echo '</ul>';

}

For external links (like www.goolge.com) we can’t do anything, because there are nothing to showing for this menu item.

But I thinks that using CMenu is best way of creating menus in YII.

Hope it will help you…

10

Thanks, it’s work!