ZF2 custom attributes in navigation

Question

How would I add custom attributes into Zend Framework 2 navigation?
I know I can add id or class -> but that\'s about it....

1) How would I add data-test=\'bla

Answer 1

The Page classes have some dedicated setters for common attributes (setLabel, setId, setUri etc), If a setter not exists __set will be called. See the manual for more information about this and also about extending the AbstractPage class.

array(
    'label' => 'Page 1',
    'id' => 'home-link',
    'uri' => '/',
    'data-test' => 'blahblah'
),

Now you can do $page->get('data_test') and it will return blahblah.

Your second question is about altering the rendering of the menu (adding a attribute to the li. ZF2 is using the menu view helper to render a navigation menu. All the navigation view helpers have an option to use your own partial view for rendering using setPartial().

In your viewscript:

$partial = array('menu.phtml', 'default');
$this->navigation()->menu()->setPartial($partial);
echo $this->navigation()->menu()->render();

In your partial view menu.phtml do something like this:

container as $page): ?>
    
navigation()->menu()->htmlify($page)?>

This will only render the highest level of the menu. If you have deeper/nested structure your custom view script will end up far more complex.

Hope this helps.