PHP - Two kind of menu in mvc framework

Question

I use PHP Phalcon and I'd like to implement two different menus. First for regular user and second for admin. I want to have two menu templates to expand menus easily.

Now I have something like this:

//Main template:

[...]

if (session->role == 'admin')
    include 'adminmenu.volt'
elseif (session->role == 'user')
    include 'usermenu.volt'

 {{ get_content() }} //from upper templates

[...]

(Unlogged user doesn't have menu.)

I think this is not entirely correct. First of all i have no idea how to highlight active position. Secondly I'd like to control menu from controller, for example add special option by change something in database. Is there a proper way to do this? I'd like to get simple solution without using javascript, modules or microservices

I'd load your menu from an array or an XML file and check with your ACL rules if the user is allowed to view each menu item — Timothy, Jul 29 '16 at 12:25
I agree with @Timothy, let you have only one template which iterates over menu generated by your logic component, be it controller or acl or whatever.. :) — Nikolay Mihaylov, Jul 31 '16 at 16:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 27 '16 at 11:39

You're probably looking for partials. In your base template, you're going to want something like:

{% if this.session->get('role') == 'admin' %}
    {{ partial('adminmenu') }}
{% else %}
    {{ partial('usermenu') }}
{% endif %}

You'll have to set your partials directory up on your view:

//This is a path relative to your views directory.
//The following is accurate if your partials directory is a child of your views directory.
$this->view->setPartialsDir('partials');

Once you've done that, executing {{ partial('name') }} will reference a name.volt file in your partials directory.

As for highlighting your position. Your partial can call the dispatcher and ask what the controller and action are:

{{ this.dispatcher.getControllerName() }} and {{ this.dispatcher.getControllerName() }}

You can check the value of those against your href attribute and set the active flag if it is true.

PHP - Two kind of menu in mvc framework

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