pop-nav

OVERVIEW

pop-nav is a component for managing and rendering an HTML navigation tree. It includes support for injecting ACL functionality to display only the certain branches of the navigation tree that the current user role is allowed to access. For this, the pop-acl component is used.

pop-nav is a component of the Pop PHP Framework.

INSTALL

Install pop-nav using Composer.

composer require popphp/pop-nav

BASIC USAGE

A basic example

First, you can define the navigation tree:

$tree = [
    [
        'name'     => 'First Nav Item',
        'href'     => '/first-page',
        'children' => [
            [
                'name' => 'First Child',
                'href' => 'first-child'
            ],
            [
                'name' => 'Second Child',
                'href' => 'second-child'
            ]
        ]
    ],
    [
        'name' => 'Second Nav Item',
        'href' => '/second-page'
    ]
];

Then, you have a significant amount of control over the branch nodes and attributes via a configuration array:

$config = [
    'top' => [
        'node'  => 'nav',
        'id'    => 'main-nav'
    ],
    'parent' => [
        'node'  => 'nav',
        'id'    => 'nav',
        'class' => 'level'
    ],
    'child' => [
        'node'  => 'nav',
        'id'    => 'menu',
        'class' => 'item'
    ],
    'on'  => 'link-on',
    'off' => 'link-off',
    'indent' => '    '
];

You can then create and render your nav object:

use Pop\Nav\Nav;

$nav = new Nav($tree, $config);
echo $nav;

    <nav id="main-nav">
        <nav id="menu-1" class="item-1">
            <a href="/first-page" class="link-off">First Nav Item</a>
            <nav id="nav-2" class="level-2">
                <nav id="menu-2" class="item-2">
                    <a href="/first-page/first-child" class="link-off">First Child</a>
                </nav>
                <nav id="menu-3" class="item-2">
                    <a href="/first-page/second-child" class="link-off">Second Child</a>
                </nav>
            </nav>
        </nav>
        <nav id="menu-4" class="item-1">
            <a href="/second-page" class="link-off">Second Nav Item</a>
        </nav>
    </nav>

An advanced example using the ACL

First, let's set up the ACL object with some roles and resources:

use Pop\Acl\Acl;
use Pop\Acl\AclRole as Role;
use Pop\Acl\AclResource as Resource;

$acl = new Acl();

$admin  = new Role('admin');
$editor = new Role('editor');

$acl->addRoles([$admin, $editor]);

$acl->addResource(new Resource('second-child'));
$acl->allow('admin');
$acl->deny('editor', 'second-child');

And then we add the ACL rules to the navigation tree:

$tree = [
    [
        'name'     => 'First Nav Item',
        'href'     => '/first-page',
        'children' => [
            [
                'name' => 'First Child',
                'href' => 'first-child'
            ],
            [
                'name' => 'Second Child',
                'href' => 'second-child',
                'acl'  => [
                    'resource' => 'second-child'
                ]
            ]
        ]
    ],
    [
        'name' => 'Second Nav Item',
        'href' => '/second-page'
    ]
];

We then inject the ACL object into the navigation object, set the current role and render the navigation:

$nav = new Nav($tree, $config);
$nav->setAcl($acl);
$nav->setRole($editor);
echo $nav;

    <nav id="main-nav">
        <nav id="menu-1" class="item-1">
            <a href="/first-page" class="link-off">First Nav Item</a>
            <nav id="nav-2" class="level-2">
                <nav id="menu-2" class="item-2">
                    <a href="/first-page/first-child" class="link-off">First Child</a>
                </nav>
            </nav>
        </nav>
        <nav id="menu-3" class="item-1">
            <a href="/second-page" class="link-off">Second Nav Item</a>
        </nav>
    </nav>

Because the 'editor' role is denied access to the 'second-child' page, that nav branch is not rendered.