Creating a menu from a categories table

[eluser]überfuzz[/eluser]
First of all you need to set up a sql query that fetches al the links, names, parent_id, etc you need. Decide if you wanna array or an object returned.

Code:

//in the controller, might be a MY_Controller so you'll be able to use it throughout the site.
$menu = $this->menu_model->get_menu();

If you need to alter $menu you could tinker with it in the controller. Now you have to decide whether you want to render the menu in the view or in a library. I often go with a library('html_render').

Code:

$this->data['menu_html'] = $this->html_render->make_menu($menu);

(Feels like a nice way of doing a thing I haven't figure out how to do in a strict mvc way.)

Feel free to ask questions as you go along.