/// <summary>
/// Generate Breadcrumb Navigation
/// </summary>
/// <param name="helper"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static string BuildBreadcrumbNavigation(this System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper helper)
{
var menulist = (List <GolfCentraAdmin.ViewModel.PageViewModel>)HttpContext.Current.Session["NavigationMenu"];
var action = helper.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString();
var controller = helper.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString();
var menuitem = menulist.Find(x => x.ActionName.ToLower() == action.ToLower() && x.ControllerName.ToLower() == controller.ToLower());
// optional condition: I didn't wanted it to show on account controller
if (controller.ToLower() == "account" || menuitem == null)
{
return(string.Empty);
}
StringBuilder breadcrumb = new StringBuilder("<ol class='breadcrumb'><li>").Append(helper.ActionLink("Dashboard", "Index", "Dashboard", new { }, new { target = "_self" }).ToHtmlString()).Append("</li>");
if (menuitem != null && menuitem.ParentId == 0)
{
breadcrumb.Append("<li>");
breadcrumb.Append(helper.ActionLink(menuitem.PageName.Titleize(),
action,
controller, new { }, new { target = "_self" }));
breadcrumb.Append("</li>");
}
else
{
var item = menulist.Find(x => x.PageId == menuitem.ParentId);
breadcrumb.Append("<li>");
breadcrumb.Append(item.PageName);
breadcrumb.Append("</li>");
breadcrumb.Append("<li>");
breadcrumb.Append(helper.ActionLink(menuitem.PageName.Titleize(),
action,
controller, new { }, new { target = "_self" }));
breadcrumb.Append("</li>");
}
return(breadcrumb.Append("</ol>").ToString());
}
/// <summary>
/// Creates 'li' HTML tags with contextual styling based on the actual request.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="htmlHelper"></param>
/// <param name="linkText">Text to be displayed.</param>
/// <param name="actionName">Action to point to.</param>
/// <param name="controllerName">Controller to point to.</param>
/// <returns>Returns a HTML 'li' string with the given context.</returns>
public static MvcHtmlString MenuLink(this System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper htmlHelper, string linkText, string actionName, string controllerName)
{
// Get the Action and the Controller for the actual request.
var currentAction = htmlHelper.ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");
var currentController = htmlHelper.ViewContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller");
// Creates the tag.
var li = new TagBuilder("li");
// Creates a <a> inside the <li> tag, pointing to the given action and controller.
li.InnerHtml = htmlHelper.ActionLink(linkText, actionName, controllerName).ToHtmlString();
// Checks if the user's actual page is the point page at the <li>. If it is, put an 'active' css class to it for contextual displaying.
// Turns all strings to lower casing to evade casing issues not setting the 'active' css correctly.
if (controllerName.ToLower() == currentController.ToLower() && actionName.ToLower() == currentAction.ToLower())
{
li.AddCssClass("active");
}
return(new MvcHtmlString(li.ToString()));
}
