Question

So i’ve followed the tutorial Zend Framework: Navigation and Breadcrumbs with an XML File in ZF 1.8 and all is working well, but i now want to use the jdmenu jquery plugin to renderer a cleaner looking horizontal menu. By default, the Zend framework wraps the menu html code in this element name

<ul class="navigation">

I think i can call this method to set the ‘ul’ element class atttribute to ‘jbmenu’

Zend_View_Helper_Navigation_Menu->setUIClass('jdMenu');

but i’m not sure how i can get access to the Zend_View_Helper_Navigation_Menu object reference. Should this be done in the Bootstrap.php file in the __initNav() method?. Any advise would be appreciated.

Answer 1

If you want to specify this in Zend you access the View Helper when printing the menu in your layout. So you could use:

//layout.phtml
echo $this->navigation()->menu()->setUlClass('jdMenu');