README

Symfony Bundle featuring:

• A factory for creating the navigation tree, using BuildDirectors which you can add to, if needed
• Twig functions for rendering navigation elements (tree, ancestry, breadcrumbs) and inspecting the navigation tree

Installation

composer require webfactory/navigation-bundle 

... and activate the bundle in your kernel, depending on your Symfony version.

Rendering navigation elements in Twig

Simple Navigation List

Syntax

{{ navigation_tree(root, maxLevels = 1, expandedLevel = 1, template = '@WebfactoryNavigation/Navigation/navigation.html.twig') }}

Examples

{{ navigation_tree(root = {"webfactory_pages.page_id": root_page_id}) }}

{{ navigation_tree(
  root = {"webfactory_pages.page_id": root_page_id, "_locale": app.request.locale},
  template = 'AppBundle:Navigation:navigation.html.twig'
) }}

Ancestry List

An ancestry list is the active path from the given start level to the currently active node. Useful if you want to render e.g. the third level navigation outside of the regular navigation.

Syntax

{{ navigation_ancestry(startLevel, maxLevels = 1, expandedLevels = 1, template = '@WebfactoryNavigation/Navigation/navigation.html.twig') }}

Examples

{{ navigation_ancestry(startLevel = 1) }}

{{ navigation_ancestry(startLevel = 1, template = '@App/Navigation/secondaryNav.html.twig') }}

Breadcrumbs

Syntax

{{ navigation_breadcrumbs(template = '@WebfactoryNavigation/Navigation/breadcrumbs.html.twig') }}

Examples

{{ navigation_breadcrumbs() }}
{{ navigation_breadcrumbs(template = '@App/Navigation/breadcrumbs.html.twig') }}

Customisation

For each function mentioned above you can provide a Twig template in which you can extend the base template and overwrite each block. Please find the default blocks in src/Resources/views/Navigation/navigationBlocks.html.twig.

Example:

{# layout.html.twig: #}

...
{{ navigation_tree(root = {"webfactory_pages.page_id": root_page_id}, template = 'AppBundle:Navigation:navigation.html.twig') }}
...

{# AppBundle:Navigation:navigation.html.twig: #}

{% extends "@WebfactoryNavigation/Navigation/navigation.html.twig" %}

{% block navigation_list %}
    <nav class="project-specific-classes">
        {{ parent() }}
    </nav>
{% endblock %}

Modifying the NavigationTree

Implement a Webfactory\Bundle\NavigationBundle\Build\BuildDirector. Example:

<?php

namespace AppBundle\Navigation;

use JMS\ObjectRouting\ObjectRouter;
use Symfony\Component\Config\Resource\FileResource;
use Webfactory\Bundle\NavigationBundle\Build\BuildContext;
use Webfactory\Bundle\NavigationBundle\Build\BuildDirector;
use Webfactory\Bundle\NavigationBundle\Build\BuildDispatcher;
use Webfactory\Bundle\NavigationBundle\Tree\Tree;
use Webfactory\Bundle\WfdMetaBundle\Config\DoctrineEntityClassResource;

final class KeyActionBuildDirector implements BuildDirector
{
    /** @var YourEntityRepository */
    private $repository;

    /** @var ObjectRouter */
    private $objectRouter;

    public function __construct(YourEntityRepository $repository, ObjectRouter $objectRouter)
    {
        $this->repository = $repository;
        $this->objectRouter = $objectRouter;
    }

    public function build(BuildContext $context, Tree $tree, BuildDispatcher $dispatcher): void
    {
        if (!$this->isInterestedInContext($context)) {
            return;
        }

        foreach ($this->repository->findForMenu() as $entity) {
            $context->get('node')
                ->addChild()
                ->set('caption', $entity->getName())
                ->set('visible', true)
                ->set('url', $this->objectRouter->path('detail', $entity));
        }

        $this->addResourcesToTreeCache($dispatcher);
    }

    private function addResourcesToTreeCache(BuildDispatcher $dispatcher): void
    {
        $dispatcher->addResource(new FileResource(__FILE__));
        $dispatcher->addResource(new DoctrineEntityClassResource(YourEntity::class));
    }
}

Define your implementation as a service and tag it webfactory_navigation.build_director. Example:

<service class="AppBundle\Navigation\YouEntityBuildDirector">
    <argument type="service" id="AppBundle\Repository\YourEntityRepository" />
    <argument type="service" id="JMS\ObjectRouting\ObjectRouter" />
    <tag name="webfactory_navigation.build_director"/>
</service>

See src/Resources/doc/How-To-Use-Klassendiagramm.puml for more.

Credits, Copyright and License

This project was started at webfactory GmbH, Bonn.

• https://www.webfactory.de

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