yii2 How to create Sidebar menu

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Hi, i’d like to create a sidebar menu on my app.

In Yii1 i have:

  • In the layout i have a Div like so

...

<?php $this->widget('UserMenu'); ?>

...
  • in the project root i have a folder "components" with

UserMenu.php

that calls


components/view/userMenu.php

How to do this with yii2?

Where to put this widget and where? (there is no "components" folder in my basic theme)

thank’s for any help

2

You can use same approach. Check this guide: http://www.yiiframew…reating-widgets

3

Thank you ifelse, i don’t know why i miss this section thas is what i need. ;D

4

I follow the guide but now i have this problem:

The command:


<?= UserMenu::widget();?>

generate the right HTML but in the frontend page it appear like a string with all the source html code in my sidebar.

Can anyone help me, if i miss something or what can i look to solve this?

thank’s

EDIT: after much time i find the stupid origin

in the example that i copy, i don’t look this:


return Html::encode($this->message);

i simply remove the Html:encode() and now all works fine.