arillo/silverstripe-menumanager

Allows complex menu management to be handled through the CMS when a simple tree structure is not enough.

dev-main / 1.0.x-dev 2025-03-06 13:43 UTC

Requires

• silverstripe/cms: ^5
• symbiote/silverstripe-gridfieldextensions: ^4.0
• unclecheese/display-logic: ^3.0

MIT

README

The menu management module is for creating custom menu structures when the site tree hierarchy just won't do.

This module is an alternative to, and is inspired by, heyday/silverstripe-menumanager.

Installation

composer require arillo/silverstripe-menumanager

After completing this step, navigate in Terminal or similar to the SilverStripe root directory and run composer install or composer update depending on whether or not you have composer already in use.

Usage

There are 2 main steps to creating a menu using menu management.

1. Create a new MenuSet
2. Add MenuItems to that MenuSet

Creating a MenuSet

This is pretty straight forward. You just give the MenuSet a Name (which is what you reference in the templates when controlling the menu).

As it is common to reference MenuSets by name in templates, you can configure sets to be created automatically during the /dev/build task. These sets cannot be deleted through the CMS.

Arillo\MenuManager\MenuSet:
    default_sets:
        - Main
        - Footer

Disable creating Menu Sets in the CMS

Sometimes the defined default_sets are all the menu's a project needs. You can disable the ability to create new Menu Sets in the CMS:

Arillo\MenuManager\MenuAdmin:
    enable_cms_create: false

Note: Non-default Menu Sets can still be deleted, to help tidy unwanted CMS content.

Usage in template

<% loop $MenuSet('YourMenuName').MenuItems %>
<a href="{$Link}" class="{$LinkingMode}">{$MenuTitle}</a>
<% end_loop %>

To loop through all MenuSets and their items:

<% loop $MenuSets %>
	<% loop $MenuItems %>
		<a href="$Link" class="$LinkingMode">$MenuTitle</a>
	<% end_loop %>
<% end_loop %>

Optionally you can also limit the number of MenuSets and MenuItems that are looped through.

The example below will fetch the top 4 MenuSets (as seen in Menu Management), and the top 5 MenuItems for each:

<% loop $MenuSets.Limit(4) %>
	<% loop $MenuItems.Limit(5) %>
		<a href="$Link" class="$LinkingMode">$MenuTitle</a>
	<% end_loop %>
<% end_loop %>

Enabling partial caching

Partial caching can be enabled with your menu to speed up rendering of your templates.

<% with $MenuSet('YourMenuName') %> <% cached 'YourMenuNameCacheKey',
$LastEdited, $MenuItems.max('LastEdited'), $MenuItems.count %> <% if $MenuItems
%>
<nav>
    <% loop $MenuItems %>
    <a href="{$Link}" class="{$LinkingMode}"> $MenuTitle.XML </a>
    <% end_loop %>
</nav>
<% end_if %> <% end_cached %> <% end_with %>

Allow sorting of MenuSets

By default menu sets cannot be sorted, however, you can set your configuration to allow it.

Arillo\MenuManager\MenuSet:
    allow_sorting: true

Subsite Support

If you're using SilverStripe Subsites, you can make MenuManager subsite aware via applying an extension to the MenuSet.

app/_config/menus.yml

Arillo\MenuManager\MenuSet:
  create_menu_sets_per_subsite: true
  extensions:
    - Arillo\MenuManager\Extensions\MenuSubsiteExtension
Arillo\MenuManager\MenuItem:
  extensions:
    - Arillo\MenuManager\Extensions\MenuSubsiteExtension

Migrate from data from heyday/silverstripe-menumanager

Uninstall heyday/silverstripe-menumanager and install arillo/silverstripe-menumanager Run dev/build/?flush=all

Afterwards you can run dev/tasks/Arillo-MenuManager-Tasks-MigrateFromHeydayMenus to copy the records into the other table(s), e.g.:

vendor/bin/sake dev/tasks/Arillo-MenuManager-Tasks-MigrateFromHeydayMenus