On Mon, 2 May 2005, Dries Buytaert wrote:
On 02 May 2005, at 08:32, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
On Mon, 2 May 2005, Robert Douglass wrote:
Why don't we get rid of primary and secondary links altogether?
We could replace them with custom menus from the menu module and position them using the new block region code. We could then write menu theme functions that render any menu in a suitable way for different kinds of links (tabbed, dhtml, etc). The best code for generating hyperlinks is in the menu module - that's the base we should be resting on.
I second this request. I am using some hack to achieve this for over a year now and don't want to miss it.
This has been discussed at length, and if I remembered correctly, JonBob outlined the required menu system changes in a post (whose URL I can't find).
I might be missing something, but I didn't make any changes to the menu system. The only thing I changed was the way the theme puts out the primary links block I use as top navigation. $primary_links = theme('menu_tree', some number); Then Bèr made me some nice CSS to render the ul vertically.
This can be worked on independently from the phptemplate engine.
True, but that would mean double work and some would go to waste, wouldn't it?
I don't think anyone is working on this.
Bèr has been, I think. Before we hadn't the possibility to have more than two block regions it didn't make sense to work on it. What we need is a design decision: Do we want to leave primary /secondary links as something that is implemented by the theme engine or by the menu system? In my scenario, all that would be in the theme's configuration is a selector of which menu blocks to chose for primary and secondary links and a link to the menu admin screen to add or expand those blocks. Cheers, Gerhard