How to Extend the Zend Navigation Menu View Helper

How do I extend the Zend Navigation Menu View Helper?

   $view->addHelperPath(
      APPLICATION_ROOT . '/library/MyApp/View/Helper/Navigation',
      'MyApp_View_Helper_'
      );

echo $this->navigation()->myMenu(); // name of your class

From: Getting Zend_Navigation menu to work with jQuery's Fisheye

EDIT

Sorry I've not seen your solution, it is exactly what I've posted.

But why this is not a trully extension of menu class?

Zend Menu extend

My code in the plugin file(ROOT/Application/SubmenuPlugin.php):

$view = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getParam('bootstrap')->getResource('view');

$submenuPartial = array('submenus/'.$currentControllerName.'.phtml', 'default'); //$currentControllerName defined a couple of lines ago             

$view->addHelperPath(APPLICATION_ROOT . '/library/Pcw/View/Helper', 'Pcw_View_Helper_');
$view->navigation()->submenu()->setPartial($submenuPartial);

Location submenus: ROOT/Application/views/scripts/submenus/

Location submenu view helper: ROOT/library/Pcw/View/helper/Submenu.php

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How to Extend Zend View Properly

Ahh!! Sorted it out. In the view resource, I needed to set the view for the ViewRenderer, as follows:

    $viewRenderer = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker
        ::getStaticHelper('ViewRenderer');
    $viewRenderer->setView($this->_view);           

(It's in the Resources section of the manual!) Anyhow, that's all I had to do. In order to do its work, the layout looks for the view registered with the renderer...

ZF2 - overriding navigation menu view helper function

Check out this tutorial by Samsonasik. I use a hack of his example to develop two-dimensional menus. While the meat of the tutorial is about dynamic menus, how he renders the menu may be of help.

Samsonasik calls the menu like this:

<div class="nav-collapse">
<?php echo $this->navigation('Navigation')->menu()->setUlClass('nav'); ?>
</div>

In my hack, I call my menu like this:

<?php

// ...

echo "<div class='collapse navbar-collapse'>";
    echo "<ul class='nav navbar-nav'>";
        echo $this->navigation('mainNavigation')
                  ->menu()
                  ->setPartial('partial/menu')
                  ->render();
    echo "</ul>";
echo "</div>";

Injecting custom navigation using a View Helper through the ServiceManager

There is no need to extend the navigation container Zend\Navigation\Navigation or extend the builtin view helpers to render menu's.

A container manages all pages in the navigation structure. The are several ways to create a container.

All the view helpers (menu, breadcrumbs) use the container as the provider for navigation data. You can eighter set a new container on the view helper using setContainer(). Alternatively you could just call the view helper in your view without a container setup and the view helper will create a new empty container for you.

If you need some alternate rendering because the default view helpers don't provide it you can create you own navigation view helper.

namespace MyNamespace\View\Helper\Navigation;

use Zend\View\Helper\Navigation\AbstractHelper;

class MyHelper extends AbstractHelper
{
}

Next register your view helper to the navigation pluginManager. I think you can do something like this (untested):

class Module
{
    public function onBootstrap($e)
    {
        $application = $e->getApplication();
        /** @var $serviceManager \Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceManager */
        $serviceManager = $application->getServiceManager();

        $pm = $serviceManager->get('ViewHelperManager')->get('Navigation')->getPluginManager();
        $pm->setInvokableClass('myHelper', 'MyNamespace\View\Helper\Navigation\MyHelper');
    }
}

Now call you custom helper in your view:

$this->navigation()->myHelper()

How to extend/replace default action helper in Zend Framework

Check out Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker. In your bootstrap file try this:

public function _initActionHelpers()
{
    $this->bootstrap('frontController')
    Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::addHelper($myHelperClass);
}

If you override the getName() behaviour your helper should be called if you refer to the redirector.

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