I'll be releasing a first, finished release before June 10th. The majority of the documentation can be found on the ioMenuItemPlugin http://github.com/weaverryan/ioMenuPlugin/tree/master/docs/.

Adds a data persistence layer to ioMenuPlugin. Create simple object-oriented menus and then easily persist them to and retrieve them from the database.

First, create a menu item and persist it to the database.

$menu = new ioMenuItem('root', '@homepage');
$menu->addChild('Sympal', 'http://www.sympalphp.org');
$menu->addChild('Account', '@account')
  ->requiresAuth(true)
  ->setCredentials('ManageAccount');

// persist the menu to the database
Doctrine_Core::getTable('ioDoctrineMenuItem')->persist($menu);

Next, aasily retrieve the menu item from the database:

$menu = Doctrine_Core::getTable('ioDoctrineMenuItem')
  ->fetchMenu('root');

Additionally, caching of the doctrine menu items is automatically handled if you retrieve the menu items from the menu manager. For example, from the actions:

public function executeIndex(sfWebRequest $request)
{
  $this->menu = $this->getContext()
    ->getConfiguration()
    ->getPluginConfiguration('ioDoctrineMenuPlugin')
    ->getMenuManager()
    ->getMenu('admin');
}

Finally, the plugin comes packaged with an admin module that allows for reordering and sorting of the menus via jQuery's Nested Sortable widget.

Please clone and improve this plugin! This plugin is by the community and for the community and I hope it can be final solution for handling menus.

If you have any ideas, notice any bugs, or have any ideas, you can reach me at ryan [at] thatsquality.com.

A bug tracker is available at http://redmine.sympalphp.org/projects/io-doctrine-menu

This plugin was taken from sympal CMF and was developed by both Ryan Weaver and Jon Wage.