Menu Templates

OroCommerceMenuBundle introduces the ability to render menu items using different menu templates. Menu templates allow to customize the way menu item is displayed in the storefront. Menu template represents a set of layout updates specific for each menu template defined by a frontend theme developer.

Note

The name of the menu template used for each storefront menu item is specified under the extra option Oro\Bundle\CommerceMenuBundle\Entity\MenuUpdate::MENU_TEMPLATE that is set automatically based on the related menu updates.

Available menu templates are collected from theme.yml configuration files across all themes and can be accessed by a developer using the Oro\Bundle\CommerceMenuBundle\Provider\MenuTemplatesProvider provider. The configuration structure is illustrated below:

Resources/views/layouts/default/theme.yml

 config:
     menu_templates:
         custom_flat:
             label: 'Custom Flat' # Label to use in Menu Template dropdown in the menu item form on the menu management page.
         custom_tree:
             label: 'Custom Tree'
             template: 'custom_tree_1' # Optional setting that specifies the directory where the menu template layout updates are located. Fallbacks to menu template key if not set, i.e. "custom_tree".

Although a Menu Template can be specified for each storefront menu item, out-of-the-box only top-level items of the main navigation menu, as the most demanded, make use of menu templates. Usually storefront theme developers judge whether they require menu templates in other menus.

Menu Item Renderer

The rendering mechanism of menu items according to their menu templates consists of the following parts:

1. TWIG function oro_commercemenu_render_menu_item that expects menu item object (\Knp\Menu\ItemInterface) and returns rendered HTML code.

2. Renderer Oro\Bundle\CommerceMenuBundle\Layout\MenuItemRenderer that makes use of layouts mechanism.

Oro\Bundle\CommerceMenuBundle\Layout\MenuItemRenderer takes the layout updates found under the Resources/views/layouts/%THEME%/menu_template/ and Resources/views/layouts/%THEME%/menu_template/%MENU_TEMPLATE_NAME%/ directories and renders them in a separate layout context. Additionally to the common data, the menu item layout context contains the following:

1. Context variable menu_template - the name of the menu template being used for rendering a menu item. Can be accessed in the layout update via =context[“menu_template”] expression.

2. Context variable menu_item_name - the name of the menu item being rendered. Can be accessed in the layout update via =context[“menu_item_name”] expression.

3. Context data variable menu_item - the menu item object (\Knp\Menu\ItemInterface) being rendered. Can be accessed in the layout update via =data[“menu_item”] expression.

Note

Having a separate layout context while rendering a menu item means that the rendering process is isolated - its layout updates are not affected by layout updates from the page layout context.

Note

Use Symfony Profiler to get suggestions on where to place layout updates and get information about rendering process.