Zend_Navigation rendering submenu with partial - zend-framework

Question

I've posted an edit to my question. While working on it I noticed the problem is easy to simplify.
I need a custom format of my submenu so i have to use partial. But then the problem occurs.
The below code shows the INCORRECT level (0):
echo $this->navigation()->menu()
->setMinDepth(1)
->setMaxDepth(1)
->setRenderParents(false)
->setOnlyActiveBranch(true)
->renderPartial(null, array('partials/menu.phtml', 'default'));
The below code shows the CORRECT menu level (1)
echo $this->navigation()->menu()
->setMinDepth(1)
->setMaxDepth(1)
->setRenderParents(false)
->setOnlyActiveBranch(true)
->render();
Any ideas? Guys please. I would appreciate any help!
Edit
My partials/menu.phtml:
foreach ($this->container as $page)
{
$active = $page->isActive();
echo '<div class="item">';
echo '<a class="'. ($active ? 'active' : '') .'" href="' . $this->baseUrl($page->getHref()) . '">' . $page->getLabel() . '</a>';
echo '</div>';
}
EDIT 2
My understanding of Zend_Navigation was, first to prepare container and than put it through partial.
$nav = $this->navigation()->menu()->setOnlyActiveBranch(true)->getContainer();
echo $this->navigation()->menu()->renderPartial($nav, array('/partials/menu.phtml', 'default'));
What is the point of setting set{Min/Max}Depth, parentRendering at the container when passing it anywehere is useless?

Answer 1

I use this code:
<?=$this->navigation()->menu()->renderPartial(null, 'shared/menu.phtml')?>
you should pass true to the method $page->isActive(true) so that also functions in depth.
in your partial
foreach ($this->container as $page) {
$active = $page->isActive(true);
if (count($page->getPages())) {
foreach ($page->getPages() as $subPage) {
$active = $subPage->isActive(true);
echo '<div class="item">';
echo '<a class="'. ($active ? 'active' : '') .'" href="' . $this->baseUrl($subPage->getHref()) . '">' . $subPage->getLabel() . '</a>';
echo '</div>';
}
}
}
before the second foreach you could add a check if and when to show the submenu.
my 2 cent.
EDIT
try this:
$partial = array('partials/menu.phtml', 'default');
echo $this->navigation()->menu()
->setMinDepth(1)
->setMaxDepth(1)
->setRenderParents(false)
->setOnlyActiveBranch(true)
->setPartial($partial)
->render();

Answer 2

Came across this while searching for an answer to the same problem. Having looked through the code for Zend_View_Helper_Navigation_Menu, it doesn't look like any of the view helper options are passed through to the view partial, although I don't see why they couldn't be... (in ZF 1.12 take look a line 736 of Zend_View_Helper_Navigation_Menu, the only thing passed is the container itself, the options array could easily be passed along with it, or the container prefiltered, may be worth filing a feature request with ZF)
These options are purely a way of filtering the Zend_Navigation_Container for rendering with the default renderMenu method. As you say, it seems you can accomplish the same thing by first filtering the container and then passing it as the first argument of the renderPartial method

Answer 3

In your main view
Find the container of the submenu located in navigation config. Then echo this container using said partial.
$pages = $this->navigation()->findOneBy('label', 'Label of your submenu');
echo $this->navigation()->menu()->renderPartial($pages,module/partials/menu.phtml');
In the partial (module/partials/menu.phtml)
Customise. This example iterates over the top level pages of your chosen container.
foreach ($this->container as $page) {
echo $this->navigation()->menu()->htmlify($page) . PHP_EOL;
}