Re: Advice on menu setup

Is the menu supposed to be displayed on every page?

I gather that the menu is dynamically driven by data in the Db...
That tells me that you should have a model for it.
If it is to be included on every page, then I would load the menu model in the App Controller, probably in the beforeRender() method.
$this->loadModel('Menu');
Don't forget to include it at the top with a use statement.

Then you can set whatever variables you need to pass to your view.
In that your specifications are vague, I can't tell you exactly what to pass along...

Then with the view vars set using the set(), you can use them in the layout or in an element depending on your needs.


On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 2:41:44 PM UTC+7, Simon Bradley wrote:

Hi

I'm new to cakephp

I'm using version 3

I've been working through an existing site i have built and trying to replicate it with cakephp

I did a lot very quickly which is great but the menu is tricky

Since this is a navigation bar at the top of every page i thought i might use an element

The problem there seems to be getting the data into it from the database

I've read the manual quite a bit and based on that i thought maybe creating a model and controller for the menu would be the best way to go

Then i could call the menu controller from the article controller and get the menu data that way

It looks like i can pass the data into the menu element from there?

But then where do i put the code that actually takes the data and generates the menu?

I've looked at various tutorials but it's not made things clearer

I'd really appreciate some advice here folks.

Cheers.

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