[support] Menu question
sander-martijn
sander at sander-martijn.com
Fri Aug 17 22:21:18 UTC 2007
They're actually css menus only. The thing is, i'm quite certain I can
build what i need to with drupal i'm just having trouble with the
documentation. I won't rant about it, i don't really have the time and
i'm sure you don't either.
The main things I'm dealing with is
1: very specific (but not that unusual) requirements of what menus
should do on the site
2: a site that got mostly built already in a commercial cms that can't
handle even the most basic requirements - I'm in damage control mode now
trying to salvage a project by bringing it to drupal.
In the meantime I used the nice_menus module for the top nav which
pretty much can do what I need it to do in the short term, but may cause
problems once there is a third level which shouldn't show in the top
nav. Now I'm trying to get the left nav to display how that should.
I'm basically doing a lot of print_r in my templates right now so I can
get an idea of what's going on.
given this structure:
- home
- top level links
- 2nd level
- 3rd level
top nav: show on all pages, display top level links and their 2nd level
links (through css dropdowns)
left nav: show on top level links and below, list top level link and 2nd
level links when on top level, list top level link, 2nd level links and
current 2nd level link's children indented when on 2nd or 3rd level
So I don't need javascript or JQuery for this - if I can get arrays
containing these elements then I can use template override functions,
custom php code or whatever else to get what I need. I'd rather not
write a module for this but if that's the only option I'll go that route.
thanks
.sander
Metzler, David wrote:
> You might consider abandoning the primary links construct and just
> create a custom region for your theme and put the primary links block
> in that region. If the "menu-block" gives you what you wan't that
> might work. You then disable primary and secondary links in the menu.
>
> That being said. It sounds like your problems are that your
> javascript is doing a a lot of DOM walking specific stuff (otherwise
> why would extra divs be a problem?). Is that accurate? This is part
> of what JQUERY was written for. In JQUERY you can bind to on-click
> events using typical CSS selectors. That rocks for this kind of work
> (even if I don't do a ton of it).
>
> I realize that you have some already tested code. But if it's highly
> specified to the organization of the document it could cause you a lot
> of problems in the long run, so I thought you'd want to know about
> JQuery.
>
> Hope some of this helps anyway.
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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> *From:* support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org]
> *On Behalf Of *sander-martijn
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 16, 2007 5:15 PM
> *To:* support at drupal.org
> *Subject:* Re: [support] Menu question
>
> 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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