What are some alternative approaches to building and managing dynamic navigation menus in PHP?

Building and managing dynamic navigation menus in PHP can be achieved by storing the menu items in a database and dynamically generating the menu structure based on the data retrieved from the database. This approach allows for easy management and updating of the menu items without having to manually edit the code. 

// Sample code snippet to build and manage dynamic navigation menus in PHP using a database

// Connect to the database
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "menu_db";

$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Query to retrieve menu items from the database
$sql = "SELECT * FROM menu_items";
$result = $conn->query($sql);

// Build the navigation menu
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    echo '<ul>';
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo '<li><a href="' . $row["url"] . '">' . $row["title"] . '</a></li>';
    }
    echo '</ul>';
} else {
    echo "No menu items found.";
}

// Close database connection
$conn->close();

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