i-lateral/silverstripe-custommenus

A Silverstripe module allowing you to create custom menus that can be gernated in the front end of your site.

Custom Menus

Developer

Developed and maintained by i-lateral, _(*1)

Requirements

SilverStripe 3.3 or greater., _(*2)

Installation Instructions

Downloading the module:, _(*3)

1. Download and add the module to the "custommenus" folder in your SilverStripe root folder, _(*4)

2. Run dev/build?flush=all, _(*5)

3. Visit admin/menus/ to setup your custom menus, _(*6)

4. In you template, use: , _(*7)

You can also download and install this module using composer and packagist, _(*8)

Usage

Once the module is downloaded and installed, you can create menus and add pages to them using the "Menus" page in the admin interfacve., _(*9)

To render these menus in your templates, you can either:, _(*10)

Add $RenderCustomMenu(menu-slug) to your template code. This will make use of the CustomMenu.ss include to render a UL (with a unique class name)., _(*11)

Alternativley you can generate your own template by adding the following code:, _(*12)

<% if $CustomMenu(main-menu) %><ul class="menu">
    <% loop $CustomMenu(main-menu) %>
        <li class="$LinkingMode $FirstLast">
            <a href="$Link">$MenuTitle</a>
        </li>
    <% end_loop %>
</ul><% end_if %>