I'm trying to create a "plugin" like script for adding to a "menu array".... I'll go straight in..
Lets say I initiate a nav item like so:
$sections->add_section('dashboard');
$DashBoardSection = $sections->load_section('dashboard');
$DashBoardSection->set_role(NULL);
$DashBoardSection->set_nav_item(array(
'identifier' => 'dashboard',
'text' => 'Dashboard',
'url' => NULL,
'position' => NULL
));
starts off by creating a new section and the getting the instance of.
We are then setting a "role" in which we will test against to see if the user is authenticated as being verified to view.
The set nav item simply stores the array. identifier is a reference to the item ( its for when we want to add sub items), all standard apart from "position" which states where it is to sit in the nav i.e. NULL is top level, array('topnav','subnav') will be topnav->subnav->dashboard.
as a test, this could be stored as follows:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[identifier] => dashboard
[text] => Dashboard
[url] =>
[position] =>
)
[1] => Array
(
[identifier] => dashboard2
[text] => Dashboard2
[url] =>
[position] => Array
(
[0] => dashboard
)
)
)
my question being how I turn that into the following structure:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[identifier] => dashboard
[text] => Dashboard
[url] =>
[position] =>
[children] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[identifier] => dashboard2
[text] => Dashboard2
[url] =>
)
)
)
)
pulling my hair out over this one, any help would be very much appreciated.
regards
I currently have
public function build_navigation( $role ){
$role = (int)$role;
$nav = array();
foreach( $this->sections as $section ) {
if( $section->get_role() === NULL || $section->get_role() === $role ) {
$nav_array = $section->get_nav();
foreach( $nav_array as $key => $nav_item ) {
if( $nav_item['position'] === NULL ) {
$nav[$nav_item['identifier']] = $nav_item;
}elseif( is_array( $nav_item['position'] ) ){
#...#
}
}
}
}
return $nav;
}
EDIT
Imagine this is the array given (it can be in any order)
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[identifier] => dashboard_child2
[text] => Dashboard Child 2
[url] =>
[position] => Array
(
[0] => dashboard
)
)
[1] => Array
(
[identifier] => dashboard_child_child_1
[text] => Dashboard Child Child 1
[url] =>
[position] => Array
(
[0] => dashboard
[1] => dashboard_child1
)
)
[2] => Array
(
[identifier] => dashboard_child1
[text] => Dashboard Child 1
[url] =>
[position] => Array
(
[0] => dashboard
)
)
[3] => Array
(
[identifier] => dashboard
[text] => Dashboard
[url] =>
[position] =>
)
[4] => Array
(
[identifier] => dashboard2
[text] => Dashboard2
[url] =>
[position] => Array
(
[0] => dashboard
)
)
)
Which needs to be formatted as:
Array
(
[dashboard] => Array
(
[text] => Dashboard
[url] =>
[children] => Array
(
[dashboard_child2] => Array
(
[text] => Dashboard Child 2
[url] =>
)
[dashboard_child1] => Array
(
[text] => Dashboard Child 1
[url] =>
[children] => Array
(
[dashboard_child_child_1] => Array
(
[text] => Dashboard Child Child 1
[url] =>
)
)
)
[dashboard2] => Array
(
[text] => Dashboard2
[url] =>
)
)
)
)