Common page features

All page classes must extend Zend\Navigation\Page\AbstractPage, and will thus share a common set of features and properties. Most notably they share the options in the table below and the same initialization process.

Option keys are mapped to set methods. This means that the option order maps to the method setOrder(), and reset_params maps to the method setResetParams(). If there is no setter method for the option, it will be set as a custom property of the page.

Read more on extending Zend\Navigation\Page\AbstractPage in Creating custom page types.

Common page options

Key	Type	Default	Description
label	String	NULL	A page label, such as ‘Home’ or ‘Blog’.
fragment	String | NULL	NULL	A fragment identifier (anchor identifier) pointing to an anchor within a resource that is subordinate to another, primary resource. The fragment identifier introduced by a hash mark “#”. Example: http://www.example.org/foo.html#bar (bar is the fragment identifier)
id	String | Integer	NULL	An id tag/attribute that may be used when rendering the page, typically in an anchor element.
class	String	NULL	A CSS class that may be used when rendering the page, typically in an anchor element.
title	String	NULL	A short page description, typically for using as the title attribute in an anchor.
target	String	NULL	Specifies a target that may be used for the page, typically in an anchor element.
rel	Array	array()	Specifies forward relations for the page. Each element in the array is a key-value pair, where the key designates the relation/link type, and the value is a pointer to the linked page. An example of a key-value pair is 'alternate' => 'format/plain.html'. To allow full flexibility, there are no restrictions on relation values. The value does not have to be a string. Read more about rel and rev in the section on the Links helper.
rev	Array	array()	Specifies reverse relations for the page. Works exactly like rel.
order	String | Integer | NULL	NULL	Works like order for elements in Zend\Form. If specified, the page will be iterated in a specific order, meaning you can force a page to be iterated before others by setting the order attribute to a low number, e.g. -100. If a String is given, it must parse to a valid int. If NULL is given, it will be reset, meaning the order in which the page was added to the container will be used.
resource	String | Zend\Permissions\Acl\Resource\ResourceInterface | NULL	NULL	ACL resource to associate with the page. Read more in the section on ACL integration in view helpers.
privilege	String | NULL	NULL	ACL privilege to associate with the page. Read more in the section on ACL integration in view helpers.
active	Boolean	FALSE	Whether the page should be considered active for the current request. If active is FALSE or not given, MVC pages will check its properties against the request object upon calling $page->isActive().
visible	Boolean	TRUE	Whether page should be visible for the user, or just be a part of the structure. Invisible pages are skipped by view helpers.
pages	Array | Zend\Config | NULL	NULL	Child pages of the page. This could be an Array or Zend\Config object containing either page options that can be passed to the factory() method, or actual Zend\Navigation\Page\AbstractPage instances, or a mixture of both.

Note

Custom properties

All pages support setting and getting of custom properties by use of the magic methods __set($name, $value), __get($name), __isset($name) and __unset($name). Custom properties may have any value, and will be included in the array that is returned from $page->toArray(), which means that pages can be serialized/deserialized successfully even if the pages contains properties that are not native in the page class.

Both native and custom properties can be set using $page->set($name, $value) and retrieved using $page->get($name), or by using magic methods.

Custom page properties

This example shows how custom properties can be used.

$page = new Zend\Navigation\Page\Mvc();
$page->foo     = 'bar';
$page->meaning = 42;

echo $page->foo;

if ($page->meaning != 42) {
    // action should be taken
}