CodeIgniter Navigation Helper

This is a small helper to create dynamic navigation menus in codeigniter.

The idea is to easily have a way to show a simple list or paragraph menu with the current section highlighted.

How to use it

The helper is pretty easy to use. You just need an array with the menu:

$items = array(
    'home' => array(
        'title' => 'Home',
        'link' => ''
    ),
    'services' => array(
        'title' => 'Our Services',
        'link' => 'services'
    ),
    'contact' => array(
        'title' => 'Contact Us',
        'link' => 'contact'
    )
);

And then call the menu

$data->['main_menu'] = menu($items, $selected_item, $css_class);

Both the selected item and the css class are optional parameters, if not sent, the menu will be created with no highlighted item and it will not have a class added to the list.

There is also a menup() function that creates a menu inside a paragraph tag, and includes a separator variable.

$data->['footer_menu'] = menup($items, $selected_item, $css_class, $separator);

Requeriments

The helper uses the function base_url() which is part of the url_helper, you will need to autoload the URL helper.

Options

You can create a navigation config file with all your arrays, and save it in 'application/config/', autoload the file and you'll have all menu items available for the application:

$items = $congig['main_menu'];

I will be adding support for submenus soon.