How to set the active menu item class to Nav::widget?

Question

Yii

There is a table in the database that populates the items array in Nav. Pages that have template_name specified have an Article controller and a default index method.

+----+------------------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------+
| id | title                        | type      | url           | template_name |
+----+------------------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------+
|  5 | О фабрике                    | page      | /about        | article       |
|  6 | Новинки                      | page      | /products/new | main          |
|  7 | Каталог                      | container | /catalog      | main          |
|  8 | Сотрудничество               | page      | /partners     | article       |
|  9 | Мастерская                   | page      | /master_class | main          |
| 10 | Новости                      | container | /news         | main          |
| 11 | Контакты                     | page      | /contacts     | main          |
+----+------------------------------+-----------+---------------+---------------+

In UrlManager specified rules for opening pages under the specified url in the database

'rules' => [
                '/about' => 'article/index',
                '/partners' => 'article/index',
            ],

But due to this approach (bicycle?), Nav doesn't set the class of the active menu item as the urls don't look like "Controller/Method" but I need different urls that are manually set (assuming manual setting) in the app's backend.
How to solve setting the class of the active menu item, in this situation?

Answer 1

Your problem is related to the fact that by default the Nav widget takes the current route from the controller that is called and without considering the url rules. You can solve this problem by setting the route for Nav yourself, like this:

<?= Nav::widget([
    'route' => Yii::$app->getRequest()->pathInfo,
    'items' => $items
]);

Answer 2

I think at least it should be like this:

'rules' => [
                '/<url>' => 'article/index',
            ],

and action

public function actionIndex($url){
   return $this->render('some_view',[
      'model' => SomeModel::findOne(['url'=>$url]);
   ]);
}