I am trying to integrate nested categories to bootstrap navbar with dropdown. I Have tried many different examples and did searches on google but none solved my problem. My structured tree is showing dropdowns when I click on them nothing hapening. which should show subcategories in dropdown.
You can see in image
After many tries and code changes this is what I have:
function dynamic_menu($parent_array, $sub_array, $qs_val = "menu", $main_id = "nav", $sub_id = "subnav", $extra_style = "foldout") {
$menu = "<ul id=\"".$main_id."\" class=\"navbar-nav mr-auto\">\n";
foreach ($parent_array as $pkey => $pval) {
if (!empty($pval['count'])) {
$menu .= "<li class=\"nav-item\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"nav-link dropdown-toggle\" id=\"navbarDropdownMenuLink-333\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"
aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\">".$pval['label']."</a>\n";
} else {
$menu .= "<li class=\"nav-item dropdown\"><a class=\"nav-link\" href=\"".$pval['link']."\">".$pval['label']."</a></li>\n";
}
if (!empty($_REQUEST[$qs_val])) {
$menu .= "<div class=\"dropdown-menu dropdown-default\" aria-labelledby=\"navbarDropdownMenuLink-333\" id=\"".$sub_id."\">\n";
foreach ($sub_array as $sval) {
if ($pkey == $_REQUEST[$qs_val] && $pkey == $sval['parent']) {
$menu .= "<a class=\"dropdown-item\" href=\"".rebuild_link($sval['link'], $qs_val, $sval['parent'])."\" target=\"_blank\">".$sval['label']."</a>\n";
}
}
$menu .= "</div>\n";
$menu .= "</li>\n";
}
}
$menu .= "</ul>\n";
return $menu;
}
Here is the navbar I am tryign to integrate:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.7/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<!--Navbar -->
<nav class="mb-1 navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-dark bg-info">
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Navbar</a>
<button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarSupportedContent-333"
aria-controls="navbarSupportedContent-333" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
<span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
</button>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarSupportedContent-333">
<ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">
<li class="nav-item active">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Home
<span class="sr-only">(current)</span>
</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item dropdown">
<a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" id="navbarDropdownMenuLink-333" data-toggle="dropdown"
aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">Dropdown
</a>
<div class="dropdown-menu dropdown-default" aria-labelledby="navbarDropdownMenuLink-333">
<a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Action</a>
<a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Another action</a>
<a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Something else here</a>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
<!--/.Navbar -->
Here is my sql structure if needed:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `dyn_menu` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`label` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
`link_url` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '#',
`parent_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=13 ;
Here is the best solition I found for my question after many searches and trying many different examples and I think this is the best way to have a bootstrap navbar work properly.
its a Multi-level Bootstrap Menu on hover with jquery
And codes:
function bootstrap_menu($pdo, $parent_id, $level = null) {
//First query to find category id
$stmt = $pdo->prepare("SELECT * FROM categories WHERE parent_id =:parent_id");
$stmt->bindParam(":parent_id", $parent_id, PDO::PARAM_INT);
$stmt->execute();
//FetchAll as $row to use
foreach ($stmt->fetchAll() as $row) {
//Second query to find cildren of main categories
$sql = $pdo->prepare("SELECT count(*) FROM categories WHERE parent_id =:cat_id");
$sql->bindParam(":cat_id", $row['cat_id'], PDO::PARAM_INT);
$sql->execute();
//Here we check for parent and level valuess
if($sql->fetchAll()[0][0] !== '0' && $level !== 0){
//Here we check if category has children if so display dropdown
echo "<li class=\"nav-item dropdown\">\n";
echo "<a class=\"nav-link dropdown-toggle\" href=\"".htmlspecialchars($row['seo_url'])."\" id=\"navbarDropdown\" role=\"button\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"
aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n";
echo $row['cat_name'];
echo "</a>\n";
echo "<ul class=\"dropdown-menu\" aria-labelledby=\"navbarDropdown\">\n";
bootstrap_menu($pdo, $row[0], $level - 1);
echo "</ul>\n";
echo "</li>\n";
}elseif($level == 0){
//Here we set our actice class $my_class
$my_class= htmlspecialchars($row['cat_name']);
if($my_class== 'Home'){
echo "<li class=\"nav-item active\">\n";
echo "<a href=\"".htmlspecialchars($row['seo_url'])."\" class=\"nav-link \">\n";
echo htmlspecialchars($row['cat_name']);
echo "</a>\n";
echo "</li>\n";
}else{
echo "<li class=\"nav-item\">\n";
echo "<a href=\"".htmlspecialchars($row['seo_url'])."\" class=\"nav-link\">\n";
echo htmlspecialchars($row['cat_name']);
echo "</a>\n";
echo "</li>\n";
}
}
else {
echo "<li class=\"dropdown-item\">";
echo "<a href=\"".htmlspecialchars($row['seo_url'])."\" class=\"dropdown-item\">\n";
echo htmlspecialchars($row['cat_name']);
echo "</a>\n";
echo "</li>\n";
}
unset($sql);
}
unset($stmt);
}