echo $this->navigation()->breadcrumbs()->setMinDepth(0)->setLinkLast(true)->setSeparator(” / “);

Seems like issue stars back in controller from these two lines.
$activeNav=$this->view->navigation()->findByUri($uri);
$activeNav->active=true;

because line before these was giving path correctly.
Please advise if something regarding this changed for 1.11

mine is zend 1.11.11

Thank you,

example:

home
users

New
Delete

I called my web site “flix” for the tutorial, and I didn’t set up a virtual host. For this reason, I had to prepend ‘/flix/public’ to the URIs that were added in the navigation.xml file.

About
/flix/public/index/about

Then, in order for the breadcrumbs to work, I had to do the same thing, for the init() function in the IndexController as follows:

public function init()
{
$uriPrepend = ‘/flix/public’;
$uri = $this->_request->getPathInfo();
$activeNav = $this->view->navigation()->findByUri($uriPrepend . $uri);
$activeNav->active = true;
}

This got everything working for the tutorial with my setup.

I was confused about where the findByUri() function came from, until I read this page http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.navigation.containers.html, and learning that the findByUri() function is really a “magic” function call. Scroll down to the section called “Finding Pages” on that site.

No doubt, others will have the same problems that I had, so I hope this helps.

To the author, thanks for the zendcasts!

Steven

I just followed your video on the zend menus, breadcrumbs and sitemap. I thought I wrote something wrong as I followed the video so I downloaded the zip files and move them to my localhost but I couldn’t see the menu. Same thing I got when I followed the videos. Is there something I missing? I am using the latest ZendFramework platform. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Carlos

I got the same error… you probably have not nested inside

structure should be

…

Once it’s inside the node, it should work fine.

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Zend_Navigation_Exception’ with message ‘Invalid argument: Unable to determine class to instantiate’

Zend_Navigation->__construct(Object(Zend_Config_Xml))

So this is how I need to display the breadcrumbs…
[code]
<!-- No link page title or seperator -->
<!-- Link -->
[/code]

Thank you, It works great! Can you help me edit the standard, or at least point me in the right direction?

I need to customise the bread crumbs css/class name and have it render slighly diffrently…

Non active link or the separator
Active link

at the moment it renders with a class name of “breadcrumbs”..

hope this makes sence!

I have the same trouble than memo23,

I am having problems with breadcrumbs and i am getting “Strict standards”.
when i do:
$activeNav = $this->view->navigation()->findByUri($uri);
var_dump( $activeNav);exit;
I am getting “null”.

Can somebody help me on this?
Thanks

Can somebody help me on this?
Thx

In ‘library/App/Controller/Plugin/Navigation.php’:
initView();
$view = $viewRenderer->view;
$uri = $request->getPathInfo();
$activeUri = $view->navigation()->findByUri($uri);
$activeUri->active = true;
$html = $view->navigation()
->breadcrumbs()
->setMinDepth(0)
->setLinkLast(true)
->setSeparator(‘ > ‘);
}
}

Believe that this could help ;]

ServerName quickstart.local
DocumentRoot /path/to/quickstart/public

SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV “development”

DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

the last days I ran into trouble because of some faulty code in your _initNavigation():

$this->bootstrap(‘layout’);
$layout = $this->getResource(‘layout’);
$view = $layout->getView();

led to the problem that another view renderer was created and I had to write some addHelper() code into the Bootstrap.php for other view helpers, having these in the layout available.
This code fixed the problem:

$this->bootstrap(‘view’);
$view = $this->getResource(‘view’);

The issue is further discussed in the forum:
http://www.zendcasts.com/forum/post/1179/#p1179

Regards,
Sven

the last days I ran into trouble because of some faulty code in your _initNavigation():

$this->bootstrap(‘layout’);
$layout = $this->getResource(‘layout’);
->getView();

i am working on a multi language site. The uri’s for this site look somthing like this:
http://www.example.ch/de/module/controller/action...
My question is if there is a possibility to prepend the language part of the uri (/de) dynamicly to all the uri’s that come from the uri-sections of the navigation XML file. Because i am using Zend_Translate i would not use three different XML files for the three languages.

Regards //kurt

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Zend_Application in C:\xampp\htdocs\zc24-zend-navigation-breadcrumbs-sitemap-menu\library\Zend\Application.php on line 29

But we don´t know why…….
If anyone has an idea,please let us know ???
thx n best regards
the red head

Tnks!

Here a plugin to use zend_navigation and breadcrumbs :
[code]class Custom_Controller_Plugin_NavigationBreadcrumbs extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract {

public function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request) {
// Get the View
$view = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getParam('bootstrap')->getResource('view');

// Get all the links
$configNavigation = new Zend_Config_Xml(APPLICATION_PATH . '/config/navigation.xml', 'nav');
$containerNavigation = new Zend_Navigation($configNavigation);
$view->navigation($containerNavigation);

// Set the active page
$activePage = $containerNavigation->findByUri($request->getRequestUri());
$activePage->active = true;
// Get the current class and add an "active" class
$currentClass = $activePage->getClass();
$activePage->setClass($currentClass . " active");

// Assign the navigation to the view
$view->navigation($containerNavigation);
}
}[code]

just like in the first part of your vid
where you had die($uri)
except that i dont have a die command anywhere in my code

i guess relating to that
im having a tough time making the leap from the aboutAction function
which has nothing in it
and how does link know to just to goto the /index/about view
i guess thats all taken care of by ZF?

thanks for your help
toy

I just want to say thank you for all the videos you’ve posted up and I must say a great contribution to Zend community.

could you help me please with next:

I want to create a menu like:

[ul]
[li]
[a href="something"][/a]
[strong]something else[/strong]
[/li]
.
.
[/ul]

What I can do for adding a [strong] tag after tag [a] ?

Thank you.

could you help me please with next:

I want to create a menu like:

something else

.
.

What I can do for adding a tag after tag ?

Thank you.

Thanks!

1. First prepare your menu in your bootstrap:

$config = new Zend_Config_Xml(APPLICATION_PATH.’/configs/navigation.xml’, ‘nav’);
$navigation = new Zend_Navigation($config);
$view = $this->getResource(‘view’);
$view->navigation($navigation);

2. In your layout, call your breadcrumb:

partial(‘breadcrumbs.phtml’); ?>

3. Have something like this in the breadcrumbs.phtml:

$breadcrumbs = $this->navigation()
->breadcrumbs()
->setMinDepth(0)
->setLinkLast(true)
->setSeparator(‘ | ‘);

if ($breadcrumbs != ”) print ‘You are here: ‘.$breadcrumbs.”;

Wohooo! Mabuhay ang pinoy!!

Regards,
Cliburn M. Solano

http://www.clybs.com
http://www.jamilicious.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/CLYBS

indexAction
artickeAction
commentsAction

How to create a breadcrumb like this (the ‘Article Name’ should be the title of the article)?

Home : Article name : Comments?

I’ve searched for quite some time now and I haven’t found a solution. Is there anyone out there who can help me?

Thanks in advance!

The xml dump:

Home
/</home

Help
/help

I have zend in my foler with in php_library and with zend/application/bootstrap/bootstrap.php I put all the code within Bootstrap.php into this class….When i remove this function from bootstrap.php i got also same error. i will not effect anywhere.

Can anybody have answers..

After adding
Zend_Registry::set(Zend_Navigation, $container);

$container = new Zend_Navigation($config);
Zend_Registry::set(Zend_Navigation, $container);
$view->navigation($container);

also i got same error any body help me…

I have bootstrap in Zend/application folder..

I think its not correct to add this at here…

$activeNav = $this->view->navigation()->findByUri($uri);
$activeNav->active = true;

bootstrap: http://pastie.org/881770

problem is when I render the navigation the links just show the language indentifier.
ex: http://zend.test -> shows just /nl for every link in the menu
When I enter http://zend.test/nl/news the urls are renderd fine
ex: nl/news, nl/jobs …
What am I missing here?

spl_object_hash
(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0)

Cheers

I got it working with translate routes very fine.

My problem comes when I install it on a shared hosting server. Whether $config is a XML or an array, I get a Call to undefined function spl_object_hash() on this:
$navigation = New Zend_Navigation($config);

Try following my setup. In the bootstrap, I have something like this:

protected function _initLocale() {

$locale = new Zend_Locale(‘en_US’);
Zend_Registry::set(‘Zend_Locale’, $locale);

}

protected function _initAcl() {

$this->_acl = new Clybs_Acl();

}

protected function _initNavigation() {

$config = new Zend_Config_Xml(APPLICATION_PATH.’/configs/navigation.xml’, ‘nav’);
$navigation = new Zend_Navigation($config);
$user = new Clybs_User();

$this->_view->navigation($navigation);
$this->_view->navigation()->setAcl($this->_acl)
->setRole($user->getRank());

}

I have ACLs activated for registered users. In your case, you don’t need those I think. Just omit the ones with ACLs.

Regards,
Cliburn M. Solano
http://www.clybs.com

Well, I have multiple menus, so in my bootstrap i got something like this:

$this->bootstrap(‘view’);
$view = $this->getResource(“view”);

$leftmenuConfig = new Zend_Config_Xml(APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/configs/navigation.xml’, ‘leftmenu’);
$leftmenu = new Zend_Navigation($leftmenuConfig);
Zend_Registry::set(‘leftmenu’, $leftmenu);

$rightmenuConfig = new Zend_Config_Xml(APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/configs/navigation.xml’, ‘rightmenu’);
$rightmenu = new Zend_Navigation($rightmenuConfig);
Zend_Registry::set(‘rightmenu’, $rightmenu);

//here i should have something for the menus that i want to specify the active state
$this->_locale = Zend_Registry::get(‘Zend_Locale’);
$uri = $this->_request->getPathInfo();
$activeNav = $this->view->navigation()->findByUri($uri);
$activeNav->active = true;

Can you help me with this?

Thanks,

I use something like this:

public function init() {

$this->_locale = Zend_Registry::get(‘Zend_Locale’);

$uri = $this->_request->getPathInfo();
$activeNav = $this->view->navigation()->findByUri($uri);
$activeNav->active = true;

}

Regards,
Burn

Example:
At the homepage have it like:
Homepage

Thanks!

[configdata]
[production]
[nav]
[home]
…
[/home]
[/nav]
[/production]
[development extends="production"]
[/development]
[/configdata]

If i leave the sections out, it complaints it can not find the production section.

If i specify the ‘nav’ section in bootstrap, it complaints it can not find the nav section.

$config = new Zend_Config_Xml(APPLICATION_PATH.’/configs/navigation.xml’, ‘nav’);

Found nothing on the web that relates to this problem, is no one using these build sections???

Hi, I don’t think all that stuff in controller init() is necesary since you can drop <uri> in your config.xml and use <module><controller><action> like this:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<config>
<nav>
<logout>
<label>Logout</label>
<module>default</module>
<controller>authentication</controller>
<action>logout</action>
</logout>
<login>
<label>Login</label>
<module>default</module>
<controller>authentication</controller>
<action>login</action>
</login>
</nav>
<config>

this way the breadcrumbs automatically know where they are and active pages are automatically assigned. Plus it stays functional even when u change structure of your urls..

For more info: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.navigation.pages.html#zend.navigation.pages.mvc

P.S.: you can also hide links in menu that aren’t normally available. IE you dont want your guests to see links to the administration area. You will have to have ACL and Auth running which is for another quite HUGE tutorial..

Logout
default
authentication
logout

Login
default
authentication
login

this way the breadcrumbs automatically know where they are and active pages are automatically assigned. Plus it stays functional even when u change structure of your urls..

For more info: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.navigation.pages.html#zend.navigation.pages.mvc

P.S.: you can also hide links in menu that aren’t normally available. IE you dont want your guests to see links to the administration area. You will have to have ACL and Auth running which is for another quite HUGE tutorial..

“Uncaught exception ‘Zend_Navigation_Exception’ with message ‘Invalid argument: Unable to determine class to instantiate’ ”

How do i go about it?

You could try and start out with this:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.navigation.containers.html

In my site, i.e. footer, I use findByLabel:

$aMenus = array(‘User’, ‘Tools’, ‘Account’, ‘Help’);

for ($i = 0; $i \navigation()-\>findOneByLabel($aMenus[$i]);
…

Regards,
clybs/burn

for those of you having problems with empty breadcrumbs and sitemap in zf 1.9.x – just add the following line after creating the Zend_Navigation Object in your Bootstrap.php:

Zend_Registry::set(Zend_Navigation, $yourNavObj);

great tutorial btw

regards from germany

I can’t use findByUri to achieve the function, do you help me ?

My question write at:
http://www.zendcasts.com/forum/post/284/#p284

please help me, thanks.

<params>
<foo>1</foo>
<bar>2</bar>
</params>

I’m new to the framework but try using this structure for adding parameters to your xml file:

1
2

I would like to implment the breadcrumbs. They work except when i have an ID in the URL like

http://www.daily-sudoku.com/dailysudoku/play-sudoku-online/solve-online-207.html

now i do not know how to represent this in the navigation.xml.

any ideas?

M

class Mac_Resource_Plugin_Testview extends Zend_Application_Resource_View
{
public function init()
{
parent::init();
$view = $this->getView();
$view->headTitle()->setSeparator(‘…’);
}
}

I know there is some issue with the view object, but not clear why it conflicts with the navigation scheme.

// controller
$uri = $this->_request->getPathInfo();
$activeNav = $this->view->navigation()->findByUri($uri);
$activeNav->active = true;

// view
$breadcrumbs = $this->navigation() ->breadcrumbs() ->setMinDepth(0)
->setLinkLast(true)
->setSeparator(‘ : ‘);

and yeah, I use 1.9.3.pl.1 and having /user/editprofile causes no problem. May be it got fixed in 1.9.3.pl.1.

Regards,
Burn

controller
action

works.

/index/about

didn’t.

I ultimately was able to sort it out by changing my XML file to use the format:
somecontroller
someaction

For some reason, the /index/about format is a problem.

Probably related to this is that this method:
$uri = $this->_request->getPathInfo();
$activeNav = $this->view->navigation()->findByUri($uri);
$activeNav->active = true;
$activeNav->setClass(“active”);

returns the error:
Call to undefined method stdClass::setClass()

I believe I read somewhere that 1.9 includes setting the ‘active’ class.

So now wondering if this is somehow related to my 1.9 upgrade. Maybe doesn’t support the format?

I can send along the specifics of my bootstrap and ini files, if you think this is something that should still work in 1.9, otherwise I’m happy to plod forward with my new xml.

Thanks much for responding!

Marc

We’d like to see more details about your problem.

Regards,
Burn

Scratching my head and would really appreciate some help debugging this.

Will happily send more details if someone is still responding to this thread

Here’s the resource added to nav xml:

User
/user
free_account_section

Got the thing working by placing the navigation object in acl:

$this->_view->navigation()->setAcl($acl)
->setRole($getRank());

where $user is a class having this:

public function getRank() {

if ($auth->hasIdentity()) return Roles::FREE;
return Roles::GUEST;

}

Regards,
Burn

This is a very helpful tutorial! How do you assign an ACL to this menu so that the menu changes accordingly to the permissions associated with the user? My current solution is a fixed menu once user logs in which is not that efficient. Here’s the scenario:

User goes to website as:
1. Guest Account:
Home
– About

2. Member Account:
Home
– Member
+ Profile
– About

3. Admin Account:
– Admin
+ Manage Users
– About

Something like that? Thanks!

THE XML MUST BE CORRECT: Look you home tag, the pages is inside!!!!.

Great Tutorial!!!!… thanks a lot.

Acl.

you’re quite right, however this is an excellent example of where practice and theory are divergent. I would venture to guess that most non-trivial web application will have components that are divergent from the typical MVC page-to-navigation model. Relying on mvc instead of uri will work until your client asks for optimized SEO urls or when you need to migrate legacy pages. I think its important to know how to manually set active pages, if nothing more than being able to change the breadcrumb due to Authorization or user constraints.

I created a BaseController that contains the setActiveNavigation function. Now, when I extend my BaseController I get an error that the BaseController can’t be found. I don’t know how Jon fixed it, maybe you do? It works fine if I use include_once.

This is the code i use to set my include path:
set_include_path(implode(PATH_SEPARATOR, array(
realpath(APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/../library’),
get_include_path(),
)));

I hope you can help me out .

My navigation.xml is identical to the demo.

check not to have more nodes with the same name in the xml file

i get this error :

Uncaught exception ‘Zend_Navigation_Exception’ with message ‘Invalid argument: Unable to determine class to instantiate’..

any ideas ?

thanx

if you’re looking to have dynamically added stylesheets, you can do it in the controller as well, either in the action() methods or in preDispatch().

e.g. $this->view->headLink()->appendStylesheet(’/css/mystyle.css’);

You could write some code to inspect which controller / action you’re currently in and load the css dynamically, either through a plugin or by inheriting from another Controller (e.g. a BaseController that extends Zend_Controller_Action) that has shared functionality across multiple Controllers.

But I’m a bit stuck with the css now. My Bootstrap class used to say:
$view->headLink()->appendStylesheet(‘/css/mystyle.css’);
but because of the nav, the pages under home (e.g. About at /index/about and Contact at /index/contact) now can’t find their css stylesheets anymore. And my images.
How do I dynammically append my Stylesheets to this new nav?

The problem is when pages are called that have parameters, e.g. http://localhost/index/update/1 it fails with:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::setClass() in /usr/local/Zend/apache2/htdocs/quickstart/application/controllers/IndexController.php on line 122

I worked around this problem by checking for:
if ($activeNav != null) { } and this avoids the error but now no breadcrumbs are printed at all for these pages.

I think the solution would be to isolate the action but I don’t know how to do this.

I tried Jim’s method of [route]default[/route] but I think this might be off track.

What I also find curious is that wrapping a try – catch block around $activeNav->setClass ( “active” ); does catch the exception. There is still a lot I don’t understand about Zend Framework.

Zend_Navigation maps <name, value) pairs from the config (that is generated from the XML file) to setter methods. If you have a <label>Home</label> under a page in your XML, the page object will first look for a method called setLabel(), and call that with the given value. If the method doesn’t exist, the ‘label’ => ‘Home’ pair is stored as a custom property in the page, which you may access as any other native property. Same goes for a page’s sub pages; <pages>…</pages> will map to setPages() etc.

The page factory determines which type of page to create (URI, MVC, custom), so the XML syntax depends on the type of page you’re creating.

If you’re creating a URI page, you’ll have the common page options available, plus the ‘uri’ option. All options are listed in tables in the manual:

Common page options:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.navigation.pages.html#zend.navigation.pages.common.options

URI page options (well, just one, really):
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.navigation.pages.html#zend.navigation.pages.uri.options

MVC page options:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.navigation.pages.html#zend.navigation.pages.mvc.options

There should be several examples around the manual, showing how to use various properties, including those specified as arrays in the manual.

Hope this helps,
http://twitter.com/robinsk

Zend_Navigation maps pairs from the config (that is generated from the XML file) to setter methods. If you have a Home under a page in your XML, the page object will first look for a method called setLabel(), and call that with the given value. If the method doesn’t exist, the ‘label’ => ‘Home’ pair is stored as a custom property in the page, which you may access as any other native property. Same goes for a page’s sub pages; … will map to setPages() etc.

The page factory determines which type of page to create (URI, MVC, custom), so the XML syntax depends on the type of page you’re creating.

If you’re creating a URI page, you’ll have the common page options available, plus the ‘uri’ option. All options are listed in tables in the manual:

Common page options:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.navigation.pages.html#zend.navigation.pages.common.options

URI page options (well, just one, really):
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.navigation.pages.html#zend.navigation.pages.uri.options

MVC page options:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.navigation.pages.html#zend.navigation.pages.mvc.options

There should be several examples around the manual, showing how to use various properties, including those specified as arrays in the manual.

Hope this helps,
http://twitter.com/robinsk

I figured out where the mistake was.

It was misconfiguration of the directory directive in httpd.conf.

AllowOverride All

Best reguards

Frank

I’m having problems with my navigation menu. I’ve used your tutorial and now I’ve added a module to my application and I’m not sure how to structure this in my navigation.xml file.

Is there good documentation somewhere about the structure of the navigation.xml?

The problem is that the toplevel pages (default module) are displayes correctly in the menu, but when I click on the menu item that is in the seperate module, the menu dissapears. What I want in the menu are the toplevel default menuitems and also the current module’s page with it’s subpages.

Could you help me with this?

I can see the index page – so far the script is working fine.

But this “/index/about” thing gives me always a 404 !
I changed httpd.conf a lot tweaking with aliases and virtual-hosts – I tested it with ZendServerCE and VertigoServ (another application stack like WAMP or MAMP) without finding a solution…

Best reguards
Frank

$this->_respons->setHeader(‘Content-Type’,'text/xml;charset=utf-8′);

One can’t stress enough how important this.

The HTTP protocol REQUIRES you to ALWAYS give correct Content-Types. The reason why the sitemap looked wierd in Firefox was cuz you did not give a correct content-type header.

And ohh, google can some times ignore your sitemap if its not identified with the correct headers.

I’m working on Zend ACL for my next video, however I try and keep the components separated unless its absolutely necessary so that they can be explored in their own context. I would probably use the two together by extending the Zend Menu View Helper and overriding the htmlify method by introducing some sort of check from Zend_ACL.

You could also put a require_once statement at the beginning of the IndexController… but you shouldn’t have too… I would double check the include paths.

Jon, I created a new controller called BaseController and extended it from Zend_Controller_Action. After that I used that class to extend my other controllers from this BaseController.
The weird thing is that I get an error message saying:

Fatal error: Class ‘BaseController’ not found in /../application/controllers/IndexController.php on line 3

line 3 is the class header:
class IndexController extends BaseController

BaseController is in the same folder as the other controllers. What could be the problem?

Here is what I’m doing; I’m coding a flow in Zend 1.82 that is made up of the following pages A:Search–>B:List–>C:Detail. Once on the detail page I would like to have a breadcrumb that would display the following home>search>list; upon clicking either the search or list page I would like the user to be taken back to that page with context (i.e. the original data). Is there a way to do this with your current example or have you thought about a way someone might do this?

Cheers,
JLi

Good question! I’ve found it really helpful to create a class (I usually call it BaseController) that inherits from Zend_Controller_Action.

I then define my preDispatch / init function there with any generalized functionality (i.e. security, general template configuration, default title pages, etc…)

Then I’ll have all my other Controllers extend the BaseController.

If I want to use preDispatch() or init() in those controllers, I simply need to call their parent:

public function preDispatch() {
parent::preDispatch()
// more code here

}

If you want to create functions that will be called in various Controllers across your site, just define them as protected / public in your BaseController. Hope that helps.

I’ve figured it out. The problem was that the About page was using a router. I didn’t specify routes yet in the navigation file. Now I have specified [route]default[/route] for every page and it works.

Now I have another question. I’m using your setActiveNavigation() function and I’ve copied this function into every controller that is using it. Now I want to put this function in a helper class to avoid the copying everytime. I’ve created a helper class using the Zend_Framework_project features in Zend Studio for Eclipse so all naming should be fine. When I try to use the helperfunction, I get an errormessage that the function doesn’t exist and is not trapped in __call().

What is the the best thing to do?

I think, a forum would be a beneficial addition to your site.

I’ve created a menu with the help of your tutorial. The .xml I’m using is (Third try to display my xml):

[configdata]
[nav]
[home]
[label]Home[/label]
[controller]index[/controller]
[action]index[/action]
[pages]
[contact]
[label]Contact[/label]
[controller]contact[/controller]
[action]index[/action]
[/contact]
[reacties]
[label]Reacties[/label]
[controller]reacties[/controller]
[action]index[/action]
[/reacties]
[/pages]
[/home]
[/nav]
[/configdata]

The weird thing is that I cant’ navigate away from the About page anymore. Navigating to and from Home and Contact is fine. Navigating to the About page is also possible, but when on the About page, the links under the menu items are all to the About page itself.

Can you help me with this problem?

Jeroen

I just want to thank you for all your videos and in particular this one. It would have taken me some time to figure that one out.

Greetings
Marry

I think you can write a function like this:

protected function setActiveNavigation()
{
$uri = $this->_request->getPathInfo();
$activeNav = $this->view->navigation()->findByUri($uri);
if ($activeNav == null)
$activeNav = $this->view->navigation()->findOneByController($this->_getParam(‘controller’));

if ($activeNav != null)
{
$activeNav->active = true;
$activeNav->setClass(“active”);
}
}

You should be able to call it either in preDispatch or in the actual action. I think its best to stick to one kind of format (either uri or controller / action) as a way of making the search tree easily traversed.

I managed this code

class GuestbookController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
    public function indexAction()
    {
        $guestbook = new Default_Model_Guestbook();
        $this->view->entries = $guestbook->fetchAll();
    }
     public function signAction()
    {
        $activeNav = $this->view->navigation()->findByAction('index');
		$activeNav->active = true;
		$activeNav->setClass("active-my");	

    }
}

the output is
li class=”active”
a class=”active-my”

but I don’t see any breadcrumbs yet

[The reason I got it to work dynamically in the tutorial is because I used the preDispatch method and made sure to specify a tag for each page in my navigation.xml file.]

Sorry may be I miss the point
but there isn’t any preDispatch
in the ControllerIndex.
An example would be gratefully appreciated

in order for the breadcrumb to function correctly, you need to specify which page is active. You can do that manually by finding the node the Zend_Navigation container and then setting the $page->active = true;

for some reason, your signAction isn’t being setup to pickup the active element in the Zend_Navigation container. The reason I got it to work dynamically in the tutorial is because I used the preDispatch method and made sure to specify a tag for each page in my navigation.xml file.

hope that helps.

Jon

I’ve a problem with breacrumbs
with this

$this->navigation()->breadcrumbs()->setMinDepth(0)->setLinkLast(true)->setSeparator(” : “);

in the layout.phtml

I’ve got the first
breadcrumb when the request uri
is / or /guestbook but nothing when
the uri is /guestbook/sign for instance.

my navigation.xml

Home
index
index

Guestbook
guestbook
index

I’m new at zf so can you help me, please ?

Best regards.

Whisher