bennoislost/easy-navigation

A simple module to customize your navigation menu

Easy Navigation

Simple navigation styling and extra category attributes for Magento., _(*1)

Installation

Composer

php composer.phar require bennoislost/easy-navigation

Then refresh Magento caches., _(*2)

Usage

Select a catalog/category attribute for use

Add the following snippit to your modules config.xml inside the default node. Replace my_new_catalog_attr with the attribute code you wish to be displayed in your navigation., _(*3)

<frontend>
    <category>
        <collection>
            <attributes>
                <my_new_catalog_attr/>
            </attributes>
        </collection>
    </category>
</frontend>

Display a selected attribute

Copy the following templates to your design package / theme., _(*4)

• app/design/frontend/base/default/template/bennoislost/easy-navigation/single-level.phtml
• app/design/frontend/base/default/template/bennoislost/easy-navigation/level-with-children.phtml

You can now use the following snippet to return the catalog/category attribute value in your template., _(*5)

$this->getMenu()->getCategoryData()->getData('my_new_catalog_attr');

Replace my_new_catalog_attr with your attribute code., _(*6)

With blocks in Magento these can be extended and replaced :), _(*7)

Support

If you have any issues with this extension, open an issue on GitHub (see URL above), _(*8)

Contribution

Any contributions are highly appreciated. The best way to contribute code is to open a pull request on GitHub., _(*9)

Developer

Ben McManus - @bennoislost, _(*10)

Licence

MIT, _(*11)

Copyright

(c) 2015 Ben McManus, _(*12)