Pages

Zend\Navigation ships with two page types:

  • MVC pages – using the class Zend\Navigation\Page\Mvc
  • URI pages – using the class Zend\Navigation\Page\Uri

MVC pages are link to on-site web pages, and are defined using MVC parameters (action, controller, route, params). URI pages are defined by a single property uri, which give you the full flexibility to link off-site pages or do other things with the generated links (e.g. an URI that turns into <a href="#">foo<a>).

Common page features

All page classes must extend Zend\Navigation\Page\AbstractPage, and will thus share a common set of features and properties. Most notably they share the options in the table below and the same initialization process.

Option keys are mapped to set methods. This means that the option order maps to the method setOrder(), and reset_params maps to the method setResetParams(). If there is no setter method for the option, it will be set as a custom property of the page.

Read more on extending Zend\Navigation\Page\AbstractPage in Creating custom page types.

Note

Custom properties

All pages support setting and getting of custom properties by use of the magic methods __set($name, $value), __get($name), __isset($name) and __unset($name). Custom properties may have any value, and will be included in the array that is returned from $page->toArray(), which means that pages can be serialized/deserialized successfully even if the pages contains properties that are not native in the page class.

Both native and custom properties can be set using $page->set($name, $value) and retrieved using $page->get($name), or by using magic methods.

Custom page properties

This example shows how custom properties can be used.

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$page = new Zend\Navigation\Page\Mvc();
$page->foo     = 'bar';
$page->meaning = 42;

echo $page->foo;

if ($page->meaning != 42) {
    // action should be taken
}

ZendNavigationPageMvc

MVC pages are defined using MVC parameters known from the Zend\Mvc component. An MVC page will use Zend\Mvc\Router\RouteStackInterface internally in the getHref() method to generate hrefs, and the isActive() method will compare the Zend\Mvc\Router\RouteMatch params with the page’s params to determine if the page is active.

MVC page options
Key Type Default|Description
action String NULL Action name to use when generating href to the page.
controller String NULL Controller name to use when generating href to the page.
params Array array() User params to use when generating href to the page.
route String NULL Route name to use when generating href to the page.
routeMatch Zend\Mvc\Router \RouteMatch NULL RouteInterface matches used for routing parameters and testing validity.
router Zend\Mvc\Router \RouteStackInterface NULL Router for assembling URLs

Note

The URI returned is relative to the baseUrl in Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\TreeRouteStack. In the examples, the baseUrl is ‘/’ for simplicity.

getHref() generates the page URI

This example show that MVC pages use Zend\Mvc\Router\RouteStackInterface internally to generate URIs when calling $page->getHref().

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// Create route
$route = Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\Segment::factory(array(
   'route'       => '/[:controller[/:action][/:id]]',
   'constraints' => array(
      'controller' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]+',
      'action'     => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]+',
      'id'         => '[0-9]+',
   ),
   array(
      'controller' => 'Album\Controller\Album',
      'action'     => 'index',
   )
));
$router = new Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\TreeRouteStack();
$router->addRoute('default', $route);

// getHref() returns /album/add
$page = new Zend\Navigation\Page\Mvc(array(
    'action'     => 'add',
    'controller' => 'album'
));

// getHref() returns /album/edit/id/1337
$page = new Zend\Navigation\Page\Mvc(array(
    'action'     => 'edit',
    'controller' => 'album',
    'params'     => array('id' => 1337)
));

isActive() determines if page is active

This example show that MVC pages determine whether they are active by using the params found in the route match object.

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/**
 * Dispatched request:
 * - controller: album
 * - action:     index
 */
$page1 = new Zend\Navigation\Page\Mvc(array(
    'action'     => 'index',
    'controller' => 'album'
));

$page2 = new Zend\Navigation\Page\Mvc(array(
    'action'     => 'edit',
    'controller' => 'album'
));

$page1->isActive(); // returns true
$page2->isActive(); // returns false

/**
 * Dispatched request:
 * - controller: poalbumst
 * - action:     edit
 * - id:         1337
 */
$page = new Zend\Navigation\Page\Mvc(array(
    'action'     => 'edit',
    'controller' => 'album',
));

// returns true, because request has the same controller and action
$page->isActive();

/**
 * Dispatched request:
 * - controller: album
 * - action:     edit
 */
$page = new Zend\Navigation\Page\Mvc(array(
    'action'     => 'edit',
    'controller' => 'album',
    'params'     => array('id' => null)
));

// returns false, because page requires the id param to be set in the request
$page->isActive(); // returns false

Using routes

Routes can be used with MVC pages. If a page has a route, this route will be used in getHref() to generate the URL for the page.

Note

Note that when using the route property in a page, you do not need to specify the default params that the route defines (controller, action, etc.).

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// the following route is added to the ZF router
$route = Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\Segment::factory(array(
   'route'       => '/a/:id',
   'constraints' => array(
      'id' => '[0-9]+',
   ),
   array(
      'controller' => 'Album\Controller\Album',
      'action'     => 'index',
   )
));
$router = new Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\TreeRouteStack();
$router->addRoute('default', $route);

// a page is created with a 'route' option
$page = new Zend\Navigation\Page\Mvc(array(
    'label'      => 'A news article',
    'route'      => 'default',
    'params'     => array('id' => 42)
));

// returns: /a/42
$page->getHref();

Zend\Navigation\Page\Uri

Pages of type Zend\Navigation\Page\Uri can be used to link to pages on other domains or sites, or to implement custom logic for the page. URI pages are simple; in addition to the common page options, a URI page takes only one option — uri. The uri will be returned when calling $page->getHref(), and may be a String or NULL.

Note

Zend\Navigation\Page\Uri will not try to determine whether it should be active when calling $page->isActive(). It merely returns what currently is set, so to make a URI page active you have to manually call $page->setActive() or specifying active as a page option when constructing.

URI page options
Key Type Default Description
uri String NULL URI to page. This can be any string or NULL.

Creating custom page types

When extending Zend\Navigation\Page, there is usually no need to override the constructor or the methods setOptions() or setConfig(). The page constructor takes a single parameter, an Array or a Zend\Config object, which is passed to setOptions() or setConfig() respectively. Those methods will in turn call set() method, which will map options to native or custom properties. If the option internal_id is given, the method will first look for a method named setInternalId(), and pass the option to this method if it exists. If the method does not exist, the option will be set as a custom property of the page, and be accessible via $internalId = $page->internal_id; or $internalId = $page->get('internal_id');.

The most simple custom page

The only thing a custom page class needs to implement is the getHref() method.

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class My\Simple\Page extends Zend\Navigation\Page
{
    public function getHref()
    {
        return 'something-completely-different';
    }
}

A custom page with properties

When adding properties to an extended page, there is no need to override/modify setOptions() or setConfig().

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class My\Navigation\Page extends Zend\Navigation\Page
{
    protected $foo;
    protected $fooBar;

    public function setFoo($foo)
    {
        $this->foo = $foo;
    }

    public function getFoo()
    {
        return $this->oo;
    }

    public function setFooBar($fooBar)
    {
        $this->fooBar = $fooBar;
    }

    public function getFooBar()
    {
        return $this->fooBar;
    }

    public function getHref()
    {
        return $this->foo . '/' . $this->fooBar;
    }
}

// can now construct using
$page = new My\Navigation\Page(array(
    'label'   => 'Property names are mapped to setters',
    'foo'     => 'bar',
    'foo_bar' => 'baz'
));

// ...or
$page = Zend\Navigation\Page::factory(array(
    'type'    => 'My\Navigation\Page',
    'label'   => 'Property names are mapped to setters',
    'foo'     => 'bar',
    'foo_bar' => 'baz'
));

Creating pages using the page factory

All pages (also custom classes), can be created using the page factory, Zend\Navigation\Page::factory(). The factory can take an array with options, or a Zend\Config object. Each key in the array/config corresponds to a page option, as seen in the section on Pages. If the option uri is given and no MVC options are given (action, controller, route), an URI page will be created. If any of the MVC options are given, an MVC page will be created.

If type is given, the factory will assume the value to be the name of the class that should be created. If the value is mvc or uri and MVC/URI page will be created.

Creating an MVC page using the page factory

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$page = Zend\Navigation\Page::factory(array(
    'label'  => 'My MVC page',
    'action' => 'index'
));

$page = Zend\Navigation\Page::factory(array(
    'label'      => 'Search blog',
    'action'     => 'index',
    'controller' => 'search',
));

$page = Zend\Navigation\Page::factory(array(
    'label' => 'Home',
    'route' => 'home'
));

$page = Zend\Navigation\Page::factory(array(
    'type'   => 'mvc',
    'label'  => 'My MVC page'
));

Creating a URI page using the page factory

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$page = Zend\Navigation\Page::factory(array(
    'label' => 'My URI page',
    'uri'   => 'http://www.example.com/'
));

$page = Zend\Navigation\Page::factory(array(
    'label'  => 'Search',
    'uri'    => 'http://www.example.com/search',
    'active' => true
));

$page = Zend\Navigation\Page::factory(array(
    'label' => 'My URI page',
    'uri'   => '#'
));

$page = Zend\Navigation\Page::factory(array(
    'type'   => 'uri',
    'label'  => 'My URI page'
));

Creating a custom page type using the page factory

To create a custom page type using the factory, use the option type to specify a class name to instantiate.

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class My\Navigation\Page extends Zend\Navigation\Page
{
    protected $_fooBar = 'ok';

    public function setFooBar($fooBar)
    {
        $this->_fooBar = $fooBar;
    }
}

$page = Zend\Navigation\Page::factory(array(
    'type'    => 'My\Navigation\Page',
    'label'   => 'My custom page',
    'foo_bar' => 'foo bar'
));

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