CMenu and clean URLs

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

There seems to be a few minor quirks with the CMenu and clean URLs.

If I have a url as array(’/site/page’, ‘view’=>‘about’)

The menu will not use the clean url: /site/page/view/about Instead it will use: /site/page?view=about

I assumed this to be an issue with normalizeUrl, so I tried to use the clean URL instead.

I set the url to "/site/page/view/about"

The menu works fine and the page loads correctly, but it does not properly identify the active state of the current page within the menu.

Am I missing something?

2

Check your URLManager settings in protected/config/main.php

3 



'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',

'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',

'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
4

So, you need to set them as you can see that

in the url manager, you have not define rule for pages

To get


('/site/page', 'view'=>'about')

as


/site/page/view/about

You need to create URL as


'/site/page/<page_name:.*?>'=>'site/page',

Where page_name is the value for $_GET[‘page_name’] or $_POST[‘page_name’]

5

What about view (the action)?

Also, I do not understand why I need to add additional rules if /site/page/view/about works as a URL. Again, I can navigate to this page, it renders the proper content, but the menu does not show it as active.

6

Ops

Then you need to set




			'activateItems'=>true,

			'activateParents'=>true,

In CMenu Property

7

Here is example




	<div id="mainmenu">

		<?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.CMenu',array(

			'activateItems'=>true,

			'activateParents'=>true,

			'items'=>array(

				array('label'=>'Home', 'url'=>array('/site/index')),						

				array('label'=>'Groups', 'url'=>array('/social/groups')),

				array('label'=>'Blogs', 'url'=>array('/social/blogs')),	

				array('label'=>'Photos', 'url'=>array('/social/photos')),

				array('label'=>'Videos', 'url'=>array('/social/videos')),	

				array('label'=>'TV & Radio', 'url'=>array('/media')),

			),

			

		)); ?>

	</div>
8

Here’s my updated config:




'gii'=>'gii',

'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',

'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',

'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',

'<view:(program|get|sponsor|gallery|news)>'=>'site/page',

My update menu:




				<?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.CMenu',array(

                    'items'=>array(

                        array('label'=>'Program<br />Information', 'url'=>'/program'),

						array('label'=>'Get A<br />Monkey', 'url'=>'/get'),

						array('label'=>'Sponsor<br />A Monkey', 'url'=>'/sponsor'),

						array('label'=>'Monkey<br />Gallery', 'url'=>'/gallery'),

						array('label'=>'Monkey<br />News', 'url'=>'/news'),

                    ),

					'lastItemCssClass'=>'last',

					'encodeLabel'=>false,

					'activateItems'=>true,

                    'activateParents'=>true,

                )); ?>

I access a page by <domain>/sponsor but sponsor is not active in the menu. Same issue.

9

give your HTML output of menu

10

This will help you

http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php?/topic/13795-cmenu-unable-to-set-parent-menu-item-active/





array('label'=>'Sponsor<br />A Monkey', 'url'=>'/sponsor','active'=>(($this->id=='get')||($this->action->id=='program'))),
11

Yes, I was hoping that CMenu would still manage the active state automatically, but I guess not.

I was temporarily doing ‘active’=>($_GET[‘view’] == ‘sponsor’ ? true:false) but your solution is cleaner, thanks.