Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/5943 Post a follow up: http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/5943 Project: Drupal -Version: cvs +Version: 4.6.3 Component: theme system Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: flevour Updated by: brevity -Status: active +Status: patch (code needs review) Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/page.tpl.php.txt (5.14 KB) Based on the bluemarine template [1] for the PHP template engine and work by Nick [2] (example menu [3]), the following is a adaptation with working dynamic menu: page.tpl.php [4] Change the line reading print my_menu_tree(24); to your menu-id or to 0 to get a complete dynamic menu including administration menu items. -- Sorry for duplicate posting in http://drupal.org/node/31307. [1] http://drupal.org/project/bluemarine [2] http://www.nickrigby.com/article/25/drop-down-menus-horizontal-style-pt-3 [3] http://www.nickrigby.com/examples/dropdown4/index.htm [4] http://ten.ic24.net/drupal/page.tpl.php.txt brevity Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:01:32 +0000 : flevour I was wondering if anyone has already worked out a patch to allow menus created by the menu() call to be dhtml-ly expandable. Most of the times its a waste of bandwidth to load 2/3 different pages to access the page you want. Best regards, flevour ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:25:35 +0000 : flevour Setting as feature request. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mon, 23 Feb 2004 04:11:02 +0000 : ax i just implemented this [5] on my drupal site [6]. please have a look, see if it works with your browser, and tell me what you think of it. and feel free to make a patch for drupal (i won't have much time before next weekend). [5] http://drupal.kollm.org/node/view/36 [6] http://drupal.kollm.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mon, 23 Feb 2004 04:49:54 +0000 : moshe weitzman Wonderful. This is an elegant, elegant implementation. I'd like to see menu.inc patched as ax suggests (possibly add a param to the function) so we can experiment with css menus. i think the javascript error on ax's site happens when the nav block is not shown. just an oversight i'm sure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:59:27 +0000 : Anonymous Works fine here on Firebird 0.7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:39:29 +0000 : ax thanks to everyone for testing.

i think the javascript error on ax's site happens when the nav block is not shown. just an oversight i'm sure.

right you are. i fixed that in the multimenu javascript [7]. regarding the half a second delay before the menu pops up, to save the user from disortientation suggested at drupal.kollm.org [8]: i guess this isn't possible with a pure css menu, but would require considerably more javascript. which /i/ almost certainly won't find / implement. feel free to suggest / implement anything related, though. what i could imagine is to make the menu look more like a real menu as on CSS Creator [9], ie. instead of expanding the submenus to the bottom, shift them out to the left / right. as i said before, this probably won't happen before the weekend. [7] http://drupal.kollm.org/themes/ax_clean/multimenu.js [8] http://drupal.kollm.org/node/view/36#comment [9] http://www.csscreator.com/menu/multimenu.php#vertm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 27 Feb 2004 02:45:45 +0000 : Anonymous Indeed this would like nice with rollover menus like those on csscreator ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sat, 13 Mar 2004 05:46:12 +0000 : moshe weitzman Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/menu_show_all_items.patch (927 bytes) One line patch to menu_tree() so we can optionally show all links, not just active links. This is all the core code that needs to change in order to facilitate expandable menus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sat, 13 Mar 2004 06:34:29 +0000 : gordon I have written my own module to create a dhtml navigation tree, by linking in phplayersmenu to build the tree menu and handle all the cross browser capiblities. I did have to copy most of menu_tree() to do this, but it meant that I didn't have to change the core. But it was not just menu_tree that has to be changed. remember that once you have made this change to useing dhtml menus you have access to every menu. So modules like the watchdog only display it's menus when you are in the admin section. There really needs to be a method to say to all modules that we want every menu, and done try to be a smart bugger. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thu, 18 Mar 2004 03:52:54 +0000 : moshe weitzman Gordon makes a good point. I think this patch is worthy despite this known limitation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:40:49 +0000 : ax i put an updated version [10], implementing real csscreator style rollover menus and submenu indicators, on my site. please note the NOTE at the end. [10] http://drupal.kollm.org/node/view/38 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:46:58 +0000 : adrian Take a look at the following demo of the Archomai Transmenu drop down menu. It uses javascript, yes.. but it degrades well .. and doesnt require horribly kludged html I have tried it on firefox 0.7, ie 6.0 and opera 7 with exactly the same results. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:09:39 +0000 : ax

Take a look at the following demo of the Archomai Transmenu drop down menu.

nice menu, nice theme. thats phptemplate [11], isn't it?

It uses javascript, yes.. but it degrades well .. and doesnt require horribly kludged html

the nice thing about the CSS Creator menu [12] is that for non-IE browsers, it works *without any javascript*, with css only. and the javascript to make it work in IE is just some 10 lines. besides that, it degrades as well and doesn't require kludged html, neither. i'm sure your demo can be done the same as nice with the CSS Creator menu. mind to give it a try? [11] http://drupal.org/node/view/6711 [12] http://www.csscreator.com/menu/multimenu.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:33:49 +0000 : moshe weitzman One more benefit of the CSSCreator scheme is that the HTML is much easier to construct. The brief javascript snippet in CSSCreator figures out which items have submenus and applies the proper styling accordingly. The Anarchai menu on the other hand requires the user to embed classes in his HTML depending on whether they have children or not. Thats harder to contruct. An example from Adrian's site example, <?php  <li class="firstItem collapsed">capdev ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:30:18 +0000 : JonBob When the admin-customizable menu patch is applied (http://drupal.org/node/view/7172), this should be possible to do without patching core. The whole menu tree will be available at all times to modules. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:41:08 +0000 : Dries Has anyone tried using expandable menus after JonBob's menu changes have been committed? According to JonBob this patch is no longer required ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sat, 24 Apr 2004 15:54:14 +0000 : Dries I'm marking this fixed as I believe this is no longer an issue now JonBob's menu system improvements hit CVS. Please reopen if necessary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:02:17 +0000 : moshe weitzman The new menu system makes this job possible, but still difficult. I think the patch proposed here is still a valid approach. What the UI designer needs is for the menu system to output a UL. menu_get_menu() does not do this. menu_get_tree() does, but it omits invisible items. Thus, I still propose we enhance menu_get_tree() to optionally include hidden items. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:17:45 +0000 : JonBob In HEAD, theme('menu_tree', 1, TRUE) will return a rendered tree of all accessible menu items in the main nav menu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:19:11 +0000 : moshe weitzman Perhaps some entrprising theme designer wants to apply some DHTML menu renderer to theme('menu_tree', 1, TRUE), the function cited by JonBob. The output of that function shoudl work with most smart menu scripts, since its just a UL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:25:23 +0000 : lekei Since this thread was before 4.6 -- is "head" referred to here 4.6 or was all the work I did building a template with DHTML menus a waste? I need to launch this site, do I need to remove the menus from the template? I didn't think that an apparently closed feature request was the right place to ask, but I go to response trying to ask in what I thought was a more appropriate location. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:11:22 +0000 : ax hm - seems that theme('menu_tree', 1, TRUE) doesn't work anymore? apparently, it silently disappeared between revision 1.77 and 1.78 [13] as part of this patch [14]. r1.78 was the penultimate change before DRUPAL-4-6 [15], which means that theme('menu_tree', 1, TRUE) is /not/ in Drupal 4.6. bad bad bad. i rely on this feature for a dynamic menu on certain sites of mine. was the patch supposed to remove it ("Make local tasks more themeable" doesn't suggest this)? is there another way to get an completely expanded menu tree with proper menu item class labeling ("expanded", "collapsed") for the current menu path? if not, could this functionality please be reinstated? thanks for any insights. [13] http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/includes/menu.inc?r1=1.77&r2=1.7... [14] http://drupal.org/node/17869 [15] http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/includes/menu.inc#rev1.79 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:50:24 +0000 : lekei So I take this to mean that Drupal can't do common DHTML menus, or any menu structure other than the primitive repaint-the-entire-page-on-each-mouse-click menus? The only way to add items to a dynamic menu seems to be to hand-code them into the template one page at a time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:53:36 +0000 : brevity Using menu_get_menu from http://drupaldocs.org/api/4.6/group/menu should help to hand over a complete menu to some JavaScript, no? Something along that lines in your phpTemplate/theme...  <?php  function my_menu_tree($pid = 1) {  $menu = menu_get_menu();  $output = ;  {    foreach ($menu['visible'][$pid]['children'] as $mid) {        print theme_menu_item($mid); // print out current menu-item; change to fit your dHtml/JS code?        my_menu_tree($mid); // recursive call to get sub-menu-items    }  }  return $output;  }  ?> ... combined with http://www.nickrigby.com/examples/dropdown4/index.htm from http://www.nickrigby.com/article/25/drop-down-menus-horizontal-style-pt-3 and I would be happy, too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:38:55 +0000 : Tobias Maier not        print theme_menu_item($mid); // print out current menu-item; change to fit your dHtml/JS code? better print theme('menu_item', $mid); the function theme_menu_item is just the fall back function if no such function is available in the theme!