push from a side bar menu to another view controller in ios - iphone

Question

I use in my application, the side bar menu like in facebook, so I have different cells in this menu, what I want is to when click on a cell push me to another view controller. I face a problem here which is: the menu is a table view which I don't have it in storyboard, I use some classes from this site:github
and I've stucked here, in my application I use a storyboard, but this menu is programmed with code, and doesn't have a view in stroyboard,
in the didSelectRowAtIndexPath method: I use like this
for(int j=0; j< 9 ; j++)
{
if(indexPath.row == j)
{
DetailsSidebarViewController *essayView = [[DetailsSidebarViewController alloc] init];
essayView.detailItem = [jsonResults objectAtIndex:j];
NSLog(#"%#=%d",essayView.detailItem,j);
}
}
and I create a DetailsSidebarViewController as the new view controller when I push from menu item. in this class, I create a method to configure the view, and just I echo the result:
- (void)configureView
{
// Update the user interface for the detail item.
if (self.detailItem) {
NSLog(#" %# ", self.detailItem);
}
}
the result is true like I want, but I want to push to another view controller, in fact nothing is happened when I click on an item into the menu.
How can I create the new view controller in storyboard? if the menu has not a storyboard, and how can I connect them with segues?
In fact, I am blue with it, please help!!

Answer 1

You should make an instance of the App Delegate class in the Side Menu view controller, and push it from there. You must have a reference to the Side Menu View and a reference to the Center View! Import your App Delegate into the Side Menu controller, and in the didSelectRowAtIndexPath, use:
DetailsSidebarViewController *essayView = [[DetailsSidebarViewController alloc] init];
essayView.detailItem = [jsonResults objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]; // note that you don't need the for loop to know what object you need
AppDelegate* myAppDelegate = (AppDelegate*)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
[myAppDelegate.sideMenuViewController toggleSideMenu]; // the idea here is that you have to close the side menu, i.e. it must dissapear
[myAppDelegate.centerViewController.navigationController pushViewController:essayView animated:YES];
This is all the code you need.
If I may, as a piece of advice, use Mike Frederik's MFSideMenu instead of the library you're using. In my opinion, it has a more simple and a more straightforward implementation, just look into the README file, everything is explained pretty simple, and it has exactly the code you need!
Hope this helps, good luck!