[themes] Dynamic horizontal taxonomy menu with xTemplate

[Bèr Kessels]

In 4.7 this is all handled in core. It has been quite well documented in the 
code so I suggest you read the example code in the core themes in HEAD and 
the functions in menu.module

Pre 4.6 I developed a module called primary_links to handle this. But as the 
name "module" indicates it is quit "bolted on". You can use it well, but I 
suggest you best not use it when you distribute the sites for people that 
will have to built there own menus afterwards. For your own development it 
should work without any problems.


both the 4.7 and primary links solutions are a lot better controllable by 
themes. And both use the menu UI to define the links. 
In combination with taxonomy_menu.module you will not even have to hand-manage 
the menus!

Ber


Op woensdag 04 januari 2006 00:12, schreef Joe Murray:
> I'm working with some graphic designers who are still coming up to speed on
> Drupal. We're trying to create a horizontal menu with data from a taxonomy.
> It's three deep. Ideally the first level would be horizontal, the second
> and third would be vertical, ie, the menu options drop down, and then if
> there is a third level it comes out and drops down again.
>
> After looking at a number of options (eg. jsdoMenu, rewriting our xTemplate
> them in phpTemplate, hardcoding menu, etc) we decided we would try to get
> Nick Lewis' phpTemplate menu
> (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/hvmenu/index.htm) working in
> xTemplate. Not sure this is feasible... Anyway, we've got the css stuff
> working but want to find a hack that would allow us to run a php snippet in
> the appropriate place in the template.
>
> Under the existing <tr> for the logo and primary and secondary menus we
> were thinking of doing something like:
> <tr><td colspan="2" class="topmenu">test<?php
>
> $TheMenu = theme_menu_tree(17);
>
> print $TheMenu;
>
> ?> </td></tr>
>
> Can we create a {mymenu} that would run this code snippet?
>
> Or is there a different way we can do this using xTemplate?
>
> Advice welcome. (Yeah, we should have figured out menuing before doing
> theme in xTemplate, but we're newbies...)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joe Murray, PhD
> President, JMA Consulting
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