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nedarta/yii2-extended-navbar provides an extended Bootstrap 5 NavBar for Yii2 with support for rendering additional navigation items outside the collapsible container.

Features

• Built on top of yii\bootstrap5\NavBar
• Render extra items outside the collapse area (externalItems)
• Configure extra items as a plain array or full Nav::widget() config (externalItemsArray)
• Control whether extra items appear before or after the toggle button (externalItemsPosition)
• Optional active route highlighting for array-based external items (highlightActiveItems)

Installation

composer require nedarta/yii2-extended-navbar

Basic Usage

<?php

use nedarta\navbar\ExtendedNavBar;
use yii\bootstrap5\Nav;

ExtendedNavBar::begin([
    'brandLabel' => 'My Company',
    'brandUrl' => Yii::$app->homeUrl,
    'options' => [
        'class' => 'navbar-expand-lg navbar-light bg-light',
    ],
    'externalItems' => Nav::widget([
        'options' => ['class' => 'navbar-nav ms-auto d-flex flex-row gap-2 me-3'],
        'items' => [
            ['label' => 'EN', 'url' => ['/site/language', 'lang' => 'en']],
            ['label' => 'LV', 'url' => ['/site/language', 'lang' => 'lv']],
        ],
    ]),
]);

echo Nav::widget([
    'options' => ['class' => 'navbar-nav me-auto mb-2 mb-lg-0'],
    'items' => [
        ['label' => 'Home', 'url' => ['/site/index']],
        ['label' => 'About', 'url' => ['/site/about']],
        ['label' => 'Contact', 'url' => ['/site/contact']],
    ],
]);

ExtendedNavBar::end();

Array-Based External Items

<?php

use nedarta\navbar\ExtendedNavBar;
use yii\bootstrap5\Nav;

ExtendedNavBar::begin([
    'externalItemsPosition' => 'after',
    'highlightActiveItems' => true,
    'externalItemsArray' => [
        'options' => ['class' => 'navbar-nav ms-auto d-flex flex-row gap-2 me-3'],
        'items' => [
            ['label' => 'Profile', 'url' => ['/user/profile']],
            ['label' => 'Settings', 'url' => ['/user/settings']],
        ],
    ],
]);

echo Nav::widget([
    'options' => ['class' => 'navbar-nav me-auto'],
    'items' => [
        ['label' => 'Home', 'url' => ['/site/index']],
    ],
]);

ExtendedNavBar::end();

You can also pass externalItemsArray as a plain list of items; it will be wrapped as:

['items' => [/* your items */]]

Configuration

Notes

• externalItemsArray takes precedence over externalItems when both are set.
• Invalid externalItemsPosition values throw yii\base\InvalidConfigException.

Contributing

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/my-change).
3. Commit your changes.
4. Push your branch.
5. Open a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.