Creating breadcrumbs in symfony 2.1 using knpmenu bundle

Question

What's the best way to create breadcrumbs using knpmenu bundle in symfony 2.1.x ? Aside from using 3-rd party bundles.

UPDATE:

Hi, theunraveler, sorry for late answer. Now I've been following your example and I'm stuck at one moment. Here, code below throws an exception, that

Missing argument 2 for Acme\DemoBundle\Menu\MenuBuilder::getBreadCrumbs()    

{% set item = knp_menu_get('main') %}
{{ knp_menu_render(item) }}
{% block breadcrumbs %}
    {% set breadcrumbs = knp_menu_get('breadcrumbs', [], {'request':    app.request, 'menu': item }) %}
    {{ dump(breadcrumbs) }}
{% endblock %}

Why it doesn't accepts "item" variable?

Agree, but what I meant is, do not add any more bundles when there's already an opportunity to create breadcrumbs in existing knpmenu bundle. — Mister Been, Nov 13 '12 at 11:05

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 04 '15 at 10:15

Since version 2.0, getBreadcrumbsArray has been moved to Knp\Menu\Util\MenuManipulator.

Possible workout to this solution is to create a twig extension:

<?php

namespace Kimwild\CommonBundle\Twig;
use Knp\Menu\Util\MenuManipulator;
use Knp\Menu\ItemInterface;

class MenuManipulatorExtension extends \Twig_Extension
{

    public function getFunctions()
    {
        return array(
            new \Twig_SimpleFunction('menu_manipulator', array($this, 'menuManipulator')),
        );
    }

    public function menuManipulator(ItemInterface $item)
    {
        $manipulator = new MenuManipulator();
        return $manipulator->getBreadcrumbsArray($item);
    }


    public function getName()
    {
        return 'menu_manipulator';
    }

}

Register twig extension:

kimwild_common.menu_manipulator_extension:
    class: Kimwild\CommonBundle\Twig\MenuManipulatorExtension
    public: false
    tags:
        - { name: twig.extension }

In breadcrumb.html.twig:

{% block root %}
    {%- for  link in menu_manipulator(item) %}
    /* whatever you want to do ... */
    {%- endfor %}
{% endblock %}

From 2012 up to now (2015) this has actually become the *right* answer on how to fix this issue in a **Symfony 2-friendly** way, deprecating the previously accepted one! — pid, Jun 19 '15 at 09:02

theunraveler · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-13T14:27:32.730

The Knp\Menu\MenuItem class has a getBreadcrumbsArray() method. It should return an array of items in the current active menu trail. If you are on an earlier version of KnpMenu (<= 1.1.2, I think), the returned array will be in the form of label => uri. Otherwise, it will be an array with each item having keys label, uri, and item.

To find the current menu item, you'll probably want to create a method in your controller (or somewhere else, if it makes more sense for your project) that looks something like this:

public function getCurrentMenuItem($menu)
{
    foreach ($menu as $item) {
        if ($item->isCurrent()) {
            return $item;
        }

        if ($item->getChildren() && $current_child = $this->getCurrentMenuItem($item)) {
            return $current_child;
        }
    }

    return null;
}

From there, you can call getBreadcrumbsArray() on the returned value:

$this->getCurrentMenuItem($your_menu)->getBreadcrumbsArray();

I guess what I would do ultimately is create a Twig extension that registers a breadcrumbs global, and put the getCurrentMenuItem() method in there. That way, you can have the breadcrumb variable in all of your templates without having to manually render it in each controller.

Source: https://github.com/KnpLabs/KnpMenu/blob/master/src/Knp/Menu/MenuItem.php#L544.

can you please provide some example of usage of this method? Because the problem lays on determining current item of the rendered menu. — Mister Been, Nov 13 '12 at 12:46
Updated my answer with an example of how to find the current menu item. — theunraveler, Nov 13 '12 at 14:20
getBreadcrumbsArray() is not availlable anymore. Do you know what to use instead? — Skid Kadda, Sep 17 '14 at 14:48
@Netbulae, this method has been moved to `Knp\Menu\Util\MenuManipulator` see this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/28851780/1055200 — b.b3rn4rd, Mar 04 '15 at 10:16

fsevestre · Answer 3 · 2016-09-27T13:06:30.913

Since KnpMenu 2.1, there is a new twig function: knp_menu_get_breadcrumbs_array

You can take a look at my gist: https://gist.github.com/fsevestre/b378606c4fd23814278a

I added a new twig function knp_menu_get_current_item, which retrieve the current menu item and work fine with the knp_menu_get_breadcrumbs_array function.

--

Edit:

With KnpMenu 2.2, you can now do:

<ol class="breadcrumb">
{% for breadcrumb_item in knp_menu_get_breadcrumbs_array(knp_menu_get_current_item('main')) %}
    {% if not loop.last %}
    <li><a href="{{ breadcrumb_item.uri }}">{{ breadcrumb_item.label }}</a></li>
    {% else %}
    <li class="active">{{ breadcrumb_item.label }}</li>
    {% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</ol>

https://github.com/KnpLabs/KnpMenu/blob/master/doc/02-Twig-Integration.markdown#functions

The knp_menu_get_current_item('main') Twig function will retrieve the current menu item, for the main menu.

Creating breadcrumbs in symfony 2.1 using knpmenu bundle

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