README

Menu widget that loads Kartik sidenav widget with database items.

What's Menu Widget?

This widget gets from database a group of ordered and hierarchical items and loads them into the Kartik sidevan widget.

Developed by Joseba Juániz (@Patroklo)

Minimum requirements

• Yii2
• Php 5.4 or above

Future plans

• None right now.

License

This is free software. It is released under the terms of the following BSD License.

Copyright (c) 2014, by Cyneek All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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3. Neither the name of Cyneek nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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Instalation

• Install Yii 2

• Install package via composer

    "cyneek/yii2-menu": "dev-master"
  

• Launch the migration

     php yii migrate --migrationPath=@vendor/cyneek/yii2-menu/migrations
  

• Profit!

Widget definition

The first step is to fill the menu table with a menu structure. This can be achieved with the built-in methods of the MenuItems ActiveRecord:

add_menu_item

• label (String) (obligatory)

Defines the text that will be shown for this menu item in the SideNav Widget.

• url (String) (optional)

The url where the menu item will link in the sidenav.

• parent (String) (optional)

Name of the parent menu item. This will create a hierarchical menu.

• name (String) (optional)

Name of the menu item, if not defined, will use the label text.

• icon (String) (optional)

CSS Bootstrap icon name that will be shown next to the menu item text.

• options (String) (optional)

HTML Options that will be added into the menu item.

• visible (String) (optional)

If 0, the menu item and all its children won't be shown at the sidenav.

delete_menu_item

Warning: It deletes the menu item and all its children.

• name (String) (obligatory)

Name of the menu item, that will be deleted.

hide_menu_item

Warning: This will hide the menu item and all its children.

• name (String) (obligatory)

show_menu_item

• name (String) (obligatory)

Widget use

    echo \cyneek\yii2\menu\Menu::widget($options);

Options is an array as defined in the Kartik Sidenav Widget Options.