Global-Set-Powered Navigation

In this exam­ple, we cre­ate a Glob­al Set in Craft and use it to build and man­age the site nav­i­ga­tion. The advan­tage here is that it allows some­one, pre­sum­ably the client or cus­tomer, to man­age the nav­i­ga­tion from the Craft con­trol pan­el. This is help­ful in some sce­nar­ios because it doesn’t require the inter­ven­tion of a devel­op­er or tech­ni­cal staff member.

This imple­men­ta­tion has the down­side of strad­dling sta­t­ic and ful­ly dynam­ic nav­i­ga­tion, with lim­it­ed con­trol over child nav­i­ga­tion items (like the drop-down we did in the Par­tial­ly-Dynam­ic ver­sion above).

We can han­dle this nav­i­ga­tion in a few ways because we can use any field or field type in a Glob­al Set. For this ver­sion, let’s use a Table field and man­age all nav­i­ga­tion items as table rows.