[support] Menus

Pherowze pherowze at gmail.com
Thu Jun 15 13:43:01 UTC 2006


Path auto?....Let me find out what it is and how to use it... Kobus, I was
unable to separate the menus using block admin pages...

Thanks.

On 6/15/06, Greg Knaddison - GVS <Greg at growingventuresolutions.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/15/06, Kobus Myburgh <ITBJDM at puknet.puk.ac.za> wrote:
> > > ...I have the main header with the primary links
> > > which never changes regardless of the section... on the menubar on
> > the left
> > > or right of the page I will have a submenu which will change whenever
> > I go
> > > to a different section......
> > >
> > > Can this be achieved using drupal...? If so how....?
> >
> > You can use a custom block with php if-then conditions or switches. Not
> > sure if there is an easier way.
> >
> > If you don't know how to code, it is perhaps better to make separate
> > blocks with the menu links in them and only set their visibility in
> > block admin pages, otherwise you can make one block with different PHP
> > conditions to display the links as they should be per page.
> >
>
> If you use pathauto to create your paths for you then you could set up
> a system that splits your "different sections" into different URLs on
> the site such as:
>
> forum/
> blog/
> news/
>
> And then create blocks appropriate for those sections and in the block
> visibility settings set the blocks to only show on forum/* pages or
> blog/* pages as appropriate.
>
> With pathauto it's possible to separate by either node type (as shown
> above) or by the lowest weighted taxonomy term in the lowest weighted
> taxonomy.
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
>
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Warmest Regards,

Pherowze
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