For example there is an exception when you click on “new” in an admin generated form:

Unable to find the sfGuardUserPeer object with the following parameters “array ( ‘sf_format’ => ‘html’,)”).

stack trace:
1. at ()
in SF_ROOT_DIR/lib/vendor/symfony/lib/routing/sfObjectRoute.class.php line 111
2. t sfObjectRoute->getObject()
in SF_ROOT_DIR/apps/backend/modules/helper/lib/menu_builder/sfMenuBuilder.class.php line 77

I think the problem is that there is no object in the route at the time this form is generated.

Fatal error: Class ‘sfBuilder’ not found in …/apps/frontend/modules/main/actions/menuComponent.class.php on line 12

getRequest()->getAttribute(‘sf_route’);

$routeName = sfContext::getInstance()->getRouting()->getCurrentRouteName();
$builder = sfMenuBuilder::initInstance(sfConfig::get(‘app_menu_items’), $route, $routeName, ‘default’);
echo $builder->renderTree(); // echo $sf_user->getMenu();

what’s with the myUser escape the html tags?

mkdir -p apps/backend/lib/helper/
then move the content of “lib” from the archive to this directory.

Config files :
— apps/backend/config/app.yml
all:
menu:
items:
submissions:
title: Submissions
reports:
title: Reports
children:
reports:
title: Default report
reports_summary:
title: Summary report
— apps/backend/config/routing.yml
# default rules
(…)

submissions:
class: sfDoctrineRouteCollection
options:
model: Submissions
module: submissions
prefix_path: submissions
column: id
with_wildcard_routes: true

reports:
url: /reports
param: { module: reports, action: index }
reports_summary:
url: /reports/summary
param: { module: reports, action: summary }

Added a dummy function in myUser so i can get the menu anytime from anywhere in the app
— apps/backend/lib/myUser.class.php
getRequest()->getAttribute(‘sf_route’);

$routeName = sfContext::getInstance()->getRouting()->getCurrentRouteName();
$builder = sfMenuBuilder::initInstance(sfConfig::get(‘app_menu_items’), $route, $routeName, ‘default’);
return $builder->renderTree();
}
}

Because i want this menu to be “global”
— apps/backend/templates/_menu.php
getMenu(); ?>

— apps/backend/templates/layout.php
(…)

(…)

et voila! Well almost, i have an issue : the html is escaped so the menu is still unusable, any idea why?

“The structure is intended for the lib/ folder, the example.php file states how the code could be called – I’m doing this actually inside a helper (MenuHelper.php) in my app’s lib/helper folder.”
-> What’s in MenuHelper.php exactly? confused there…

Anyway, imho this should definitely be a plugin for the community to use! so useful!