Generate navigation from a multi-dimensional array
- by rg88
The question: How do I generate navigation, allowing for applying different classes to different sub-items, from a multi-dimensional array?
Here is how I was doing it before I had any need for multi-level navigation:
Home
Pics
About
and was generated by calling nav():
function nav(){
$links = array(
"Home" => "home.php",
"Pics" => "pics.php",
"About" => "about.php"
);
$base = basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
foreach($nav as $k => $v){
echo buildLinks($k, $v, $base);
}
}
Here is buildLinks():
function buildLinks($name, $page, $selected){
if($selected == $page){
$theLink = "<li class=\"selected\"><a href=\"$page\">$name</a></li>\n";
} else {
$thelink = "<li><a href=\"$page\">$name</a></li>\n";
}
return $thelink;
}
My question, again:
how would I achieve the following nav (and notice that the visible sub navigation elements are only present when on that specific page):
Home
something1
something2
Pics
About
and...
Home
Pics
people
places
About
What I've tried
From looking at it it would seem that some iterator in the SPL would be a good fit for this but I'm not sure how to approach this. I have played around with RecursiveIteratorIterator but I'm not sure how to apply a different style to only the sub menu items and also how to only show these items if you are on the correct page.
I built this array to test with but don't know how to work with the submenu1 items individually:
$nav = array(
array(
"Home" => "home.php",
"submenu1" => array(
"something1"=>"something1.php",
"something2" => "something2.php")
),
array("Pics" => "pics.php"),
array("About" => "about.php")
);
The following will print out the lot in order but how do I apply, say a class name to the submenu1 items or only show them when the person is on, say, the "Home" page?
$iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveArrayIterator($nav));
foreach($iterator as $key=>$value) {
echo $key.' -- '.$value.'<br />';
}
