Your existing menu is likely a series of <li> elements with <a href=""> in them, yes? Replace the <a> elements with <?php this->Html->link() ?> calls. A good place to set this up is in app/View/Layouts/default.ctp. -Rob
On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 3:41:44 AM UTC-4, Simon Bradley wrote: > > Hi > > I'm new to cakephp > > I'm using version 3 > > I've been working through an existing site i have built and trying to > replicate it with cakephp > > I did a lot very quickly which is great but the menu is tricky > > Since this is a navigation bar at the top of every page i thought i might > use an element > > The problem there seems to be getting the data into it from the database > > I've read the manual quite a bit and based on that i thought maybe > creating a model and controller for the menu would be the best way to go > > Then i could call the menu controller from the article controller and get > the menu data that way > > It looks like i can pass the data into the menu element from there? > > But then where do i put the code that actually takes the data and > generates the menu? > > I've looked at various tutorials but it's not made things clearer > > I'd really appreciate some advice here folks. > > Cheers. > > > > > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
