[support] Menu question

[sander-martijn]

Making some progress here.  I've realized that to some extent what I 
want to do is override theme_menu_tree and theme_menu_item.  That gives 
me some of the control I need BUT the default menu system still has 
extra junk I don't want (such as a Primary links header) AND I need two 
types of menu trees that display different things - one horizontal in 
the top (primary links) and one vertical down the left (current section 
and its children). 

so far i think menus are a pain in the ass in drupal.  a tradeoff for 
the power but I think the multiple meanings that the word "menu" has in 
drupal just adds to the confusion of it all.  What I need is really not 
that complicated, but it's becoming incredibly complicated fast.

sander-martijn wrote:
> I want to customize my menus, but since I want it to work with the 
> html/css/javascript code I've already written and tested I want to get 
> the system to output the menu in html as I want it.  Actually what I 
> need is quite simple.  I don't really want to try to customize someone 
> else's module and I'd rather not build one.  After some digging around I 
> figured out that I could override the theme_menu_links method in my 
> template.php file.  Now that's exactly what I need... I got really 
> excited but I must have some things missing/misunderstood.
>
>
> what I have in the menu system under primary links:
> primary links
>   - menu item 1
>      - menu 1 subitem 1
>      - menu 1 subitem 2
>   - menu item 2
>      - menu 2 subitem 1
>
> etc - fairly standard
>
> What I need to output is the following:
>
> <ul id="nav1" class="nav">
>   <li><a href="#">menu item 1</a>
>     <ul>
>       <li><a href="#">menu 1 subitem 1</a></li>
>       <li><a href="#">menu 1 subitem 2</a></li>
>     </ul>
>   </li>
> </ul>
> <ul id="nav2" class="nav">
>   <li>menu item 2
>     <ul>
>       <li><a href="#">menu 2 subitem 1</a></li>
>     </ul>
>   </li>
> </ul>
>
> etc. - also pretty straight forward.
>
> SO - I put in page.tpl.php the following:
> <?php print theme('menu_links', $primary_links); ?>
>
> and put in template.php the following:
> function tpg_menu_links($links){
>   if (!count($links)) {
>     return '';
>   }
>   $level_tmp = explode('-', key($links));
>   $level = $level_tmp[0];
>   $output = "<ul id=\"nav\" class=\"nav\">\n";
>   foreach ($links as $index => $link) {
>     $output .= "<li>". l($link['title'], $link['href'], 
> $link['attributes'], $link['query'], $link['fragment']) ."</li>\n";
>   }
>   $output .= '</ul>';
>
>   return $output;
> }
> ?>
>
> Which is basically a modified version of theme_menu_links in menu.inc
>
> It works as a start, but there are a couple of issues. 
> 1. even though my class attribute in $output is hard coded, it's still 
> being replaced by class="active" when you're on the page.  Not a 
> disaster, i can always modify my css to do the same thing for 
> class="active" as class="nav".
> 2. this is the bigger issue.  It's not outputting the subitems.  I'd be 
> happy to add in the proper call in the foreach loop to either call 
> another function that i also override or to load them directly in here 
> if anyone can point me in the direction of what i need to call in order 
> to load them.
>
>
>   

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sander-martijn <mailto:sander at sander-martijn.com>
interface developer | architect
sander at sander-martijn.com <mailto:sander at sander-martijn.com>
www.sander-martijn.com <http://www.sander-martijn.com>

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