Is it possible to render absolute urls with the knp menu?

[Bruno Reis]

Hi all, 

Is it possible to render absolute urls with the knp menu? Is the menu aware of the complete path, including the domain info? 

* I found just one issue on stackoverflow with a broken link and tried the "routeAbsolute' parameter (as told there) but it did not work. 

[David Buchmann]

hi bruno,

knp menu items have uri, they know nothing about symfony, routes or
anything:
https://github.com/KnpLabs/KnpMenu/blob/master/src/Knp/Menu/ItemInterface.php#L46

the menu factory is responsible for converting menu nodes to menu items.
looking at this code in the cmf menu factory, it looks like you are on
the right trail:
https://github.com/symfony-cmf/MenuBundle/blob/master/ContentAwareFactory.php#L228-L264

the menu node can have an option 'routeAbsolute' and if you set that to
true, you should get absolute urls.

if this does really not work, there would be a bug somewhere - to debug
you could check if routeAbsolute really is true, or if hardcoding true
in the ContentAwareFactory helps...

cheers,david

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[Bruno Reis]

it seems that the factory is run before the twig extension, so it's not possible to add routeAbsolute to the proccess of converting nodes into items. 

If I do something like...

{{ knp_menu_render('simple/main', {'currentClass': 'pure-menu-selected', 'depth': 2, 'routeAbsolute':true, 'linkType':'urf'}) }}

...nothing happens. 

But If I intercept the CreateMenuItemFromNodeEvent event and force the it, it shows that routeAbsolute is working:

        $node = $event->getNode();

        $factory = $event->getFactory();

        $options = $node->getOptions();

        $options['routeAbsolute'] = true;

        $item = $factory->createItem($node->getName(),$options);

        $event->setItem($item);

But, I think the first option should also work. And it's sure a cleaner way to do it. 

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[David Buchmann]

> it seems that the factory is run before the twig extension, so it's not
> possible to add routeAbsolute to the proccess of converting nodes into
> items.
>
> If I do something like...
>
> {{ knp_menu_render('simple/main', {'currentClass': 'pure-menu-selected',
> 'depth': 2, 'routeAbsolute':true, 'linkType':'urf'}) }}
>
> ...nothing happens.

but the other options are passed through? i agree that it should be
possible to overwrite these options here, whithout some event listener.