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I would think of using routes
e.g.

/:lang/:controller/:action

Hi Akongz.
I remember having issues with multiple navigation blocks in the last project I did using Zend_Navigation, and resigning myself to creating one master navigation with two root nodes inside a <pages> declaration. I know you can also write your own viewscript that will render the Navigation object and its respective Page instances based on your own business rules. A custom Zend_Navigation viewscript is probably what you're looking for.

Hope that helps!

jon

you could go through the navigation structure and find the active link, then recursively pick up all the page names until you hit the top parent and store that in an array. Then when you print out the navigation add a check for in_array() which adds the active state.

I tried this with Zend Framework 1.10.7

and I get the following message with your zip example:

Zend_Loader_PluginLoader_Exception: Plugin by name 'FindByUri' was not found in the registry; used paths: Zend_View_Helper_Navigation_: Zend/View/Helper/Navigation/ Zend_View_Helper_: Zend/View/Helper/:./views/helpers/:/Users/unifix/Sites/navtest/application/views/helpers/ in /Users/unifix/Sites/navtest/library/Zend/Loader/PluginLoader.php on line 412

I tried with Zend 1.8 the first and last version, and they all seem to produce the same issue.  I'm running:

PHP Version 5.3.1

Last edited by unifix (2010-08-12 15:08:19)

Hi,
Great tutorial, as usual.

I have a question, can I set a class with the <li> element in the XML file ?
If I do this :

<search class="searching">
        <label>Search</label>
        <uri>/search/index</uri>
</search>

or

<search>
        <class>searching</class>
        <label>Search</label>
        <uri>/search/index</uri>
</search>

the class is on the <a href=''> and not the parent <li>.

How do I do ?

Thanks.
Fabrice

Last edited by __fabrice (2010-09-19 08:14:29)

Hello there, hello Jon!

First I wanna thank you for all your efforts, teaching us zf.
This was really a good start for me me to dive into the whole stuff.

Now to the concrete thing. As I mentioned in the comments, the last day I had a very annoying debug session.

Your navigation / breadcrumb thing worked in my app and I already had created some view helpers.

I added viewhelper paths in the Application.ini:

resources.view.helperPath.ZendX_JQuery_View_Helper      = APPLICATION_PATH "/../library/ZendX/JQuery/View/Helper/"
resources.view.helperPath.SZ_View_Helper                = APPLICATION_PATH "/../library/SZ/View/Helper/"

So everthing worked fine in the view scripts.
But from the point I needed the helpers in the layout I ran into trouble:

My view helper classes weren't found.
Odd twice: I had to add extra code into Bootstrap.php and even didn't know why. But it worked so far:

    protected function _initViewHelpers()
    {
        $this->bootstrap('layout');
        $view = $this->getResource('layout')->getView();
        $view->addHelperPath('ZendX/JQuery/View/Helper/', 'ZendX_JQuery_View_Helper');
        $view->addHelperPath('SZ/View/Helper/', 'SZ_View_Helper');
        ...
    }

Then came the day, when I wanted this stuff moving to the Application.ini.
I did'nt know about the behavior and funktionally of zf especially view/layout and so on.
This faulty code teached me to dig and learn more and more:

    protected function _initNavigation()
    {
      $this->bootstrap('layout');
      $view = $this->getResource('layout')->getView();
          ...
    }

This code led to the fact that i had several view renderers, so I had no access to the view helpers paths I defined in the Application.ini.
I had to define them a second time in the Bootstrap.php, see _initViewHelpers() above.

Jon, even though you led me run into the problem I wanna also thank you for that, because this issue encouraged me to read a lot of stuff from WeierOphinney, Rob Allen and so on.
At least I went into IRC #zftalk and got hints from Bittarman.
He pointed out the weird view render behavior I mentioned above.

The solution was pretty easy:

    protected function _initNavigation()
    {
      $this->bootstrap('view');
      $view = $this->getResource('view');
          ...
    }

This couldt be removed:

    protected function _initViewHelpers()
    {
        $this->bootstrap('layout');
        $view = $this->getResource('layout')->getView();
        $view->addHelperPath('ZendX/JQuery/View/Helper/', 'ZendX_JQuery_View_Helper');
        $view->addHelperPath('SZ/View/Helper/', 'SZ_View_Helper');
        ...
    }

And everthing works fine now.

Regards,
Sven