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Registering your own provider

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Registering your own menu provider allows you to feed your menu with your own data, accessed by your code. It can for example go through a PHPCR repository and create the corresponding menu elements.

Create first your Provider class, in the Provider directory of your bundle:

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namespace App\Provider;

use Knp\Menu\FactoryInterface;
use Knp\Menu\Provider\MenuProviderInterface;

class CustomMenuProvider implements MenuProviderInterface
{
    /**
     * @var FactoryInterface
     */
    protected $factory = null;


    /**
     * @param FactoryInterface $factory the menu factory used to create the menu item
     */
    public function __construct(FactoryInterface $factory)
    {
        $this->factory = $factory;
    }

    /**
     * Retrieves a menu by its name
     *
     * @param string $name
     * @param array $options
     * @return \Knp\Menu\ItemInterface
     * @throws \InvalidArgumentException if the menu does not exists
     */
    public function get($name, array $options = [])
    {
        if ('demo' == $name) { //several menu could call this provider

            $menu = /* construct / get a \Knp\Menu\NodeInterface */;

            if ($menu === null) {
                throw new \InvalidArgumentException(sprintf('The menu "%s" is not defined.', $name));
            }

            /*
             * Populate your menu here
             */

            $menuItem = $this->factory->createFromNode($menu);

            return $menuItem;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Checks whether a menu exists in this provider
     *
     * @param string $name
     * @param array $options
     * @return bool
     */
    public function has($name, array $options = [])
    {
        $menu = /* find the menu called $name */;

        return $menu !== null;
    }
}

Then, configure the services linked to this new provider.

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# config/services.yaml or app/config/services.yml
services:
    app.menu_provider:
        class: App\Provider\CustomMenuProvider
        arguments:
          - '@knp_menu.factory'
        tags:
          - { name: knp_menu.provider }

# ...

Finally, to generate the menu, for example inside a twig template type:

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{{ knp_menu_render('demo') }}

The Symfony CMF MenuBundle provides a complete working example.

This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.
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