Magento static pages menu - php

Question

I want to make a menu that will dynamically show the active static pages from CMS; for example if in my CMS I have these pages:
About Us (enabled)
Shipping & Refund (disabled)
Terms and Conditions (enabled)
Contacts (enabled)
then the menu would look like:
About US | Terms and Conditions | Contacts
I need just a few tips on how to get started; maybe somebody has already done this before?

Answer 1

Dougle
thanks a lot, that was really helpful!
Fede
in Magento CMS you can make static pages that you can only access using its IDENTIFIER; what I wanted is somehow make a menu that will automatically display the ACTIVE (enabled) static pages; and if you set status to Disable it should not be in the menu;
here is the code i used, note there is IF $PageData['identifier']!='no-route'; no-rute is the 404 page, so i don't need it in the menu, but it must be enabled so Magento redirects 404 errors to this page;
<div>
<?php $collection = Mage::getModel('cms/page')->getCollection()->addStoreFilter(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId());?>
<?php $collection->getSelect()
->where('is_active = 1'); ?>
<ul>
<?php foreach ($collection as $page): ?>
<?php $PageData = $page->getData(); ?>
<?php if($PageData['identifier']!='no-route') { ?>
<li>
<?php echo $PageData['title'] ?>
</li>
<?php } ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</div>

Answer 2

To exclude more than just the no-route I added a new field to the CMS pages to specify if the page should have a menu item or not using true or false. I followed Add a new CMS Field and used the following in main.php
$fieldset->addField('menu', 'text', array(
'name' => 'menu',
'label' => Mage::helper('cms')->__('On Menu'),
'title' => Mage::helper('cms')->__('On Menu'),
'required' => true,
'disabled' => $isElementDisabled
));
Then changed this line:
<?php if($PageData['identifier']!='no-route') { ?>
to
<?php if($PageData['menu']!= 'false') { ?>

Answer 3

Here is another way to put static links to Magento catalog menu.
First, create static page, assign some url key to it, for example, "my-test-page".
Go to /app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block, copy file Navigation.php to /app/code/local/Mage/Catalog/Block, now you able to edit it without any worries about the possibility of loosing your changes with Magento upgrade.
Open file Navigation.php at line 265 (magento 1.4) function _renderCategoryMenuItemHtml(...), change code:
$htmlLi .= '>';
$html[] = $htmlLi;
$html[] = '<a href="'.$this->getCategoryUrl($category).'"'.$linkClass.'>';
$html[] = '<span>' . $this->escapeHtml($category->getName()) . '</span>';
$html[] = '</a>';
to that:
$htmlLi .= '>';
$html[] = $htmlLi;
if(preg_match('/\/static-/', $this->getCategoryUrl($category))) {
$link_url = str_replace("static-", "", $this->getCategoryUrl($category));
} else {
$link_url = $this->getCategoryUrl($category);
}
$html[] = '<a href="'.$link_url.'"'.$linkClass.'>';
$html[] = '<span>' . $this->escapeHtml($category->getName()) . '</span>';
$html[] = '</a>';
Now go to Categories management, edit category, change URL key to that: "static-my-test-page" and uncheck "Create Permanent Redirect for old URL" check-box. After saving category you will have link to my-test-page at top categories menu in Magento.
So after all that changes you can convert category link to static page link by adding prefix "static-" to category URL key.

Answer 4

In your page/html block create a method containing:
$collection = Mage::getModel('cms/page')->getCollection()->addStoreFilter(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId());
$collection->getSelect()
->where('is_active = 1')
->order('main_table.sort_order ASC');
return $collection;
Which you can call in your template and foreach() through creating your LIs
Might need some tweaking mind, depending on your setup.
From memory though i think this is built in, have a look in design/frontend/../../templates/page/ i seem to remember striping out some similar functionality in one of the phtml files in there.
where, order and other select stuff can be found in /lib/Zend/Db/Select.php(FYI)