Navigation Builder

Creating Menus

Pragma CMS allows you to create dynamic menus (e.g., main-menu, footer-menu) that can be centrally managed in the Administration panel.

The Navigation Builder natively supports various link types to keep your routing structurally sound and dynamically translated:

• Collection Entry: Dynamically link to an Article, a Page, or a Product. If the entry's slug changes, the menu link updates automatically.
• System Page (Route): Link securely to hardcoded routes (e.g., front.blog.index).
• Custom URL: Link to external websites.
• Section / Divider: Create non-clickable headers or visual separators for dropdowns.
• Mailto / Tel: Quickly generate contact links.

Menus also support advanced attributes like target="_blank", custom css_classes, anchor targets (#mission), and attaching specific icons or media directly to a menu item.

Rendering Menus

Once your menu is created and populated in the backend, rendering it on the frontend requires a single function call using the menu's unique handle.

In Twig:

In PHP:

The render_menu() function automatically traverses the hierarchy (parent/child items), applies the active language routes, and outputs clean, semantic HTML (<ul>, <li>, <a>).