scandiwebcom / MagentoMenuManager

A Magento extension allows to create as many menus as you wish. Each menu will have it's support for active items.

Scandi_MenuManager

As a site visitor you will get convenient navigation. There can be different navigation blocks on the site, if necessary. As a store owner, you are able to create unlimited number of navigation blocks per web site or store, add menu items, set URLs for them, enable/disable, set CSS class, set order of display. As a developer you will get easy to customize module, it does not have pre-defined strict front end design, so it is up to you how to render it, but you can choose several layouts: horizontal, vertical, or plain output.

Video Overview

http://www.screencast.com/t/XQaDKY1vAAuP

Installation

• For manual installation copy all folders to project root.
• Clear cache and extension should be installed.

Testing installation success

• After installation extension is available in Admin -> CMS -> Menus, where you can add Menus, and once added, create menu items and set their hierarchy e.g. root level, or 2nd-3rd-4th-... level sub-menu item, where root level means menu item is show on top level.
• As developer you can add menu via XML, directly in template or in CMS using Magento short-code - see examples below.

Depends

• Mage_Cms
• Mage_Adminhtml

Developer Notes

How-to add menu to the Magento store:

• Add within layout files (f.e. theme local.xml):

<block type="scandi_menumanager/menu" name="menu_name">
    <action method="setMenuId">
        <menu_id>menu_identifier</menu_id>
    </action>
</block>

• Add menu using Magento shortcode (f.e. within CMS block):

{{block type="scandi_menumanager/menu" name="menu_name" menu_id="menu_identifier"}}

• Add menu directly into template:

<?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('scandi_menumanager/menu')->setMenuId('menu_identifier')->toHtml(); ?>

• Add same menu multiple times having different output type:

<!-- Menu 1 displayed in header as horizontal menu -->
<reference name="header">
    <block type="scandi_menumanager/menu" name="menu_header">
        <action method="setMenuId">
            <menu_id>menu_identifier</menu_id>
        </action>
    </block>
</reference>

<!-- We use same menu but will show as vertical type -->
<reference name="right">
    <block type="scandi_menumanager/menu" name="menu_right">
        <action method="setMenuId">
            <menu_id>menu_identifier</menu_id>
        </action>

        <!-- Set new type like this -->
        <action method="setCustomType">
            <custom_type>vertical</custom_type>
        </action>
    </block>
</reference>

• Create menu and menu items using Magento models (useful for data migration):

<?php
    //Create Menu
    $menu = Mage::getModel('scandi_menumanager/menu')->load('menu_identifier')
        ->setIdentifier('menu_identifier')
        ->setTitle('Menu Title')            //menu title
        ->setStores(array(0))               //array of store ids - 0 for all stores
        ->setType('none')                   //none, vertical or horizontal - 'none' used by default
        ->setCssClass('menu-class')         //ignore this line if you do not need to add css classes
        ->setIsActive('1')                  //menu will be active by default, add this line if you want it disabled
        ->save();

    //Add Menu Item
    Mage::getModel('scandi_menumanager/item')->load('item_identifier')
        ->setIdentifier('item_identifier')  //items are identified by identifiers, attribute is not visible in admin
        ->setMenuId($menu->getId())         //set previously created menu as item's parent, we need to know the id
        ->setParentId('0')                  //set item's parent item, 0 stands for root level, 0 used by default
        ->setTitle('Item Title')
        ->setUrl('/')                       //item's url, ignore for item w/o url, add '/' for base url item.
        ->setType('same_window')            //link type - same_window or new_window, default same_window
        ->setCssClass('item-class')         //ignore this line if you do not need to add css classes
        ->setPosition('0')                  //item's position depending of its parent, 0 default
        ->setIsActive(1)                    //menu item will be active by default
        ->save();
?>