menu is a simply little html generator really. I wrote it to easily interact with jQueryUI’s accordion menu. Essentially you add a variety of menuItems and then call the asHtml() method to generate an un-ordered list suitable for use with jQueryUI’s accordion menu.

Parent Class

None

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Public Properties

$id

The name for the html ID attribute
Data Type: string
Default Value: ‘accordion’

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Public Methods

\ipinga\menu __construct( [string $id] )

This is the class constructor. You can optionally provide the html ID value
Parameters:
$id (string: optional) is the value used for the html ID attribute. Default: ‘accordion’
Returns:
A menu instance
Example:

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$myMenu = new \ipinga\menu('left_menu');   $myMenu->addItem( 'Main Menu', 'Home', '/index' ); $myMenu->addItem( 'Main Menu', 'My Account', '/account_info' ); $myMenu->addItem( 'Messages', 'Create New Message', '/messages/create');   echo $myMenu->asHtml();   outputs:   <!-- Start of accordion menu --> <ul id="left_menu"> <li>    <h3><a>Main Menu</a></h3>    <ul>          <li><a href="/index">Home</a></li>          <li><a href="/account_info">My Account</a></li>    </ul> </li> <li>    <h3><a>Messages</a></h3>    <ul>          <li><a href="/messages/create">Create New Message</a></li>    </ul> </li> </ul><!-- End of accordion menu -->

void addItem( string $tab, string $name, string $url [, string $target] )

Add an item to the menu. Internally this uses the menuItem object, but it is not exposed.
Parameters:
$tab (string) The tab name you want this option to appear on
$name (string) The menu item name (ie: the text that will appear for this link)
$url (string) The url to take the user to when they click on the menuItem
$target (string: optional) The value used for the html TARGET attribute. Default: none
Returns:
null

string asHtml()

Returns the generated HTML code, suitable for ECHOing to the user, etc.
Parameters:
None
Returns:
The HTML string