How to use Navigation Menu/Pages at frontend?

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• amkosys

  December 2010 edited 2:16PM

  Same question is also for my custom modules,
  
  Like I have created module name as "ads"
  
  in that I have category,subcategory,products.
  Now I want to show that list in home page, So how can I retrieve it from my module?
  
  What is the best way for it?
• admin

  December 2010 edited 2:16PM

  To render the menu, I'd use the fuel_nav() function. The fuel_nav() function is a wrapper around the Menu class.
  http://www.getfuelcms.com/user_guide/helpers/fuel_helper
  http://www.getfuelcms.com/user_guide/libraries/menu
  
  We wrote a blog post last weeks about using menus that may help too:
  http://www.getfuelcms.com/blog/2010/12/12/learning-fuel-cms-part-2
  
  With regards to your second question, if you are wanting to get your model data into your views, you can use the fuel_model helper function or load the module in like so:
  // using the helper function fuel_model('ad_categories', array('module' => 'ads')); // using the load method $CI->load->module_model('ads', 'ad_categories_model'); $categories = $CI->ad_categories_model->find_all();
  
  Here are some reference links for fuel_model and MY_Model (which is a base model that your module models inherit from):
  http://www.getfuelcms.com/user_guide/helpers/fuel_helper
  http://www.getfuelcms.com/user_guide/libraries/my_model
• amkosys

  December 2010 edited 2:16PM

  Thank you..
  This is the great help!!!! I will study all and checkout.
• amkosys

  December 2010 edited December 2010

  Hello,
  
  I have seen the Menu Class & fuel_nav(), it's working extremely fine..
  Just only one thing I didn't found any where.. And that is, How to set custom CSS class in [ul] tag?
  
  For Example, According to my custom layout, I have below type of menu code.
  
  [ul id="main_menu" class="main_menu"] [li]<a href="/about">About</a>[/li] [li]<a href="/feedback">Feedback</a>[/li] [/ul]
  
  by fuel_nav() how can I set property (id, class) of [ul] tag?
• amkosys

  December 2010 edited 2:16PM

  Ahhh.. I got it from Property list, it's like below..
  
  <?php echo fuel_nav(array('container_tag_id'=>'menu')); ?>
  
  Done... And now working fine
  
  Thanks