[Plugin: WP MVC] interacting with the menu system

  • So I opened an issue over on Github, but I’m not even sure it’d accomplish what I’m actually trying to do.

    I’m trying to figure out a way to add items dynamically to the navigation menu of my WordPress theme using WP MVC. I thought the best way to do that would be to create a custom layout that renders my data as li tags. And then use the output of that to put into the menu using the wp_nav_menu_items filter. But that proved problematic, because I can’t just capture the output of the rendering.

    I have a solution now, but it involves forgoing the WP MVC framework and doing some sql queries and such outside the context of WP MVC.

    Is there a more kosher way of going about what I want?

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-mvc/

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  • Plugin Author tombenner

    (@tombenner)

    To avoid the need to write SQL for this, I’ve added a function (in 1.1.4) called mvc_model, which lets you instantiate an MVC model anywhere in WP (e.g. in the theme). You can call find() on it to get objects and then iterate through them to create the HTML to pass into the wp_nav_menu_items filter:

    $venue_model = mvc_model('Venue');
$venues = $venue_model->find(array('limit' => 5));
$items_html = '';
foreach ($venues as $venue) {
    $items_html .= '<li><a href="'.mvc_public_url(array('controller' => 'venues', 'id' => $venue->id)).'">'.$venue.'</a></li>';
}

    I’ve also added another function called mvc_render_to_string() which lets you render a view to a string. The example in the documentation should show how to use it, but I haven’t thoroughly tested it yet.

    If you have any questions about this or anything else, definitely just shoot me a line.

    Best,
    Tom

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