How do I link a menu item to an external page?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi there,

I have two questions

  1. How can I create a link in a CMenu item to point to an external webpage instead of an action or view of my app?

  2. How can I make a CMenu item open the link in a new web browser page "_blank"?

Please help!

Thanks

2

Q1:

array(‘label’=>‘Blog’, ‘url’=>(‘http://www.my-page.com’)),

Scryii

3

Hi Fire

Read this:

By Example: CHtml

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You pass

array(‘target’=>’_blank’)

4

Hi! Thanks for your response, however I am still having problems,

here is my menu:

‘FBadminMenu’=>array( array(‘label’=>‘Home’, ‘url’=>array(’/site/return’)),

                                   array('label'=>'About', 'url'=>array('/help/about')), 


                                   array('label'=>'Store', 'url'=>array('/help/store')), 


                                   array('label'=>'Invite',  'url'=>array('/site/invite'),'htmlOptions'=>array('target'=>'_BLANK')),

The target still doesn’t make it open in a blank page… any ideas what I am doing wrong?

5

check the generated html, if there is written something like:




<a href="..." target="blank">...</a>

It means that the menu did his work, and is your browser that doesn’t properly interpreate this property.

6

You need to use linkOptions, not htmlOptions:


array('label' => 'Invite', 'url' => array('/site/invite'), 'linkOptions' => array('target'=>'_blank')),
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THANKS! You saved the day!

8

Thanks for your great help!!!!

9

i created new menu ex:new_menu.

but i get new menu but url did not connect i got error

Home » Error

Error 404

The system is unable to find the requested action "new_menu".

my code is:

$this->widget(‘zii.widgets.CMenu’,array(

		'items'=&gt;array(


			array('label'=&gt;'Home', 'url'=&gt;array('/site/index')),


			array('label'=&gt;'About', 'url'=&gt;array('/site/page', 'view'=&gt;'about')),


			


			


			array('label'=&gt;'New Page', 'url'=&gt;array('/site/new_menu')),


			


			


			array('label'=&gt;'Contact', 'url'=&gt;array('/site/contact')),


			array('label'=&gt;'Login', 'url'=&gt;array('/site/login'), 'visible'=&gt;Yii::app()-&gt;user-&gt;isGuest),


array('label'=&gt;'Logout ('.Yii::app()-&gt;user-&gt;name.')', 'url'=&gt;array('/site/logout'),


			 'visible'=&gt;&#33;Yii::app()-&gt;user-&gt;isGuest)


		),


	));

pls give me solution

10

Hi,

please change the menu actionname


array('label'=>'New Page', 'url'=>array('/site/newmenu')),

thenafter in your site controller create the actionNewMenu and redner the page


public function actionNewMenu(){

  //render page

}

please see it… more refrences

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Thanks

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thanks for the help