[support] Many menus - complex navigation

[Eric McKenna]

if you views are displaying as a page, you could enable the menu feature on
then move it under the correct parent.  I do feel your pain, there always
seems to be one page that breaks whatever menu I've come up with ;)

On 5/9/07, J-P Stacey <jp.stacey at torchbox.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks very much for your reply:
>
> > * how to highlight A, B, C or D (with HTML classes?) and make a
> > menu only 2 levels deep
> >
> > emm >> If you are using the drupal built in menus, the structure
> returned by menu_primary_links() is helpful.
>
> That looks almost ideal, actually. I've had to use it as a stub for my
> own,
> but it's pretty much the mechanism I'm looking for.
>
> The problem I'm having is that frequently I have items which have a
> natural
> place in the notional hierarchy of my site, but no entry in the menus. So
> there's a trail through open menus that ought to all be open, but they're
> not (because the specific bit of the menu that the page "feels like" it
> falls under isn't the current active item).
>
> While it's possible to fudge things a *bit* with the category module, that
> only works for quasi-static pages: I can't seem to categorise e.g. views
> or
> the site shop. So I'm currently wrapping my call to menu_tree() with a
> temporary hack to the active item:
>
>         $temp = $_GET['q'];
>         menu_set_active_item(myfunc_map_to_effective_active_item($temp));
>
>         /* Menu functions go here, unaware of the hack */
>
>         menu_set_active_item($temp);
>
> It all seems to work, though it feels a bit hairy.
>
> Cheers,
> J-P
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