Categories as Navigation Items

damiandrozdowicz · Nov 6th 2019

Hi guys,

I've been trying to "inject" a set from Categories into a perch_navigation() function so I could render categories as subitems of a navigation items - i'm building a shop. There are total of two levels in the navigation.

What I tried was getting all the data from a navigation group and combined it with an output of categories. It resulted in a correct data set however I couldn't find a "Perch Way" to render it after such manipulation. Any tips?

I've resolved it by writing a PHP loop with a lot of "echos" but I'm not quite happy with that hack.

Any thoughts are welcomed.

Damian

Byron Fitzgerald · Nov 6th 2019

You could potentially add a category set field to your page attributes template. This should then be accessible through perch navigation function, and then rather than using the subitems tag you can just loop through the categories instead.

marc · Nov 6th 2019

Hey buddy,

Just a thought, return the categories and pass in to the pages navigation function using the data option. This may help getting the categories in with the pages navigation/templating, you would then need to utilise perch conditionals to show the categories under the nav item required. Or use in conjunction with the idea that Byron Fitzgerald has suggested.

PHP

$categories = perch_categories([
'set' => 'my-category-set',
], true);
perch_pages_navigation([
'data' => [
'categories' => $categories,
],
'template' => 'template.html',
]);

marc · Nov 6th 2019

Not saying thats the answer, but floating a concept/idea out there

damiandrozdowicz · Nov 14th 2019

Thanks marc and Byron Fitzgerald . I haven't consider using Set within navigation. I guess it could result in a neat solution. In the end I went with something similar to what you suggested marc

Damian