Using Menu ¶

Menu manager used for build hierarchical menu. This is automatically look of user role and permision then return menus that he has access.

use mdm\admin\components\MenuHelper;
use yii\bootstrap\Nav;

echo Nav::widget([
    'items' => MenuHelper::getAssignedMenu(Yii::$app->user->id)
]);

Return of mdm\admin\components\MenuHelper::getAssignedMenu() has default format like:

[
    [
        'label' => $menu['name'], 
        'url' => [$menu['route']],
        'items' => [
            [
                'label' => $menu['name'], 
                'url' => [$menu['route']]
            ],
            ....
        ]
    ],
    [
        'label' => $menu['name'], 
        'url' => [$menu['route']],
        'items' => [
            [
                'label' => $menu['name'], 
                'url' => [$menu['route']]
            ]
        ]
    ],
    ....
]

where $menu variable corresponden with a record of table menu. You can customize return format of mdm\admin\components\MenuHelper::getAssignedMenu() by provide a callback to this methode. The callback must have format function($menu){}. E.g:

$callback = function($menu){
    $data = eval($menu['data']);
    return [
        'label' => $menu['name'], 
        'url' => [$menu['route']],
        'options' => $data,
        'items' => $menu['children']
    ];
}

$items = MenuHelper::getAssignedMenu(Yii::$app->user->id, null, $callback);

Default result is get from cache. If you want to force regenerate, provide boolean true as forth parameter.

Using Sparated Menu ¶

Second parameter of mdm\admin\components\MenuHelper::getAssignedMenu() used to get menu on it's own hierarchy. E.g. Your menu structure:

• Side Menu
  • Menu 1
    • Menu 1.1
    • Menu 1.2
    • Menu 1.3
  • Menu 2
    • Menu 2.1
    • Menu 2.2
    • Menu 2.3
• Top Menu
  • Top Menu 1
    • Top Menu 1.1
    • Top Menu 1.2
    • Top Menu 1.3
  • Top Menu 2
  • Top Menu 3
  • Top Menu 4

You can get 'Side Menu' chldren by calling

$items = MenuHelper::getAssignedMenu(Yii::$app->user->id, $sideMenuId);

It will result in

• Menu 1
  • Menu 1.1
  • Menu 1.2
  • Menu 1.3
• Menu 2
  • Menu 2.1
  • Menu 2.2
  • Menu 2.3