How-to modify main menu? Best practices for integrating pre-existing tables? about app HOT 6 CLOSED

What do you mean exactly with "Read-only directories"?

We usually create the frontend site structure with p3pages, which included the model class P3Page, which has a method getMenuItems to retrieve items in a way so that CMenu and extended classes can instantly use it (Sorry about the incomplete docs). And you can define multiple root nodes, eg. for top navigation, footer links, etc...

In the default setting the backend theme and the frontend theme use the same _menu.php. But it's up to you if you want to change that. The reason for two themes by the way is that heavy modifications in the frontend may very likely break your backend modules layout.

I've found no flexible and powerful way yet to include the backend modules in to the menu, so that they still can be configured via a web interface, so I simply decided to adjust the PHP file, if it's needed - as it's part of your application, it will always fit with your configuration and installed modules.

There is a Wiki page about Pages, but you're right, it should contain more guidance...

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And ... which pre existing tables do you have? Do they contain menu items?

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Hi Tobias, thanks for responding.

I think maybe the directory permissions were a hangover from having to change things in MAMP so that Composer could work its magic during the setup

The tables are content for a restaurant site I built in Yii 1.0. They contain things like food items, wine, etc. The existing site isn't responsive and rather than re-do a 1.0 site I wanted to upgrade to 1.1.13 and a responsive theme. I wanted to be able to add menu links for the (restaurant) menus (dinner and lunch) and for the wine list, and for the owners' blog, which I might move to being P3 pages...

I guess that the lack of documentation, combined with the significant departure from the "normal" way of doing things in yii is a challenge for me. If there was more info about the overall way things worked - "root nodes" for example, menus and navigation, and how best to integrate non-P3 models/controllers/views into Phundament - then I wouldn't be pounding my forehead on the desk so much!

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You can link to any controller action with p3pages, see the wiki page mentioned above.

Have you gone through this section and created a root node?

Phundament is Yii, so there's no difference how to integrate models, etc... just add them to your application and call the corresponding actions.
Please also have a look at this gist for an example how to create menu items from a custom model, code could be more sophisticated, though.

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@dzogchen Did it help?

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