Thought I'd cross-post here to since it's a functionality issue as well, and I'm not sure how populated the themes list is at this point.
Joe
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From: Joe Murray [mailto:joe.murray@jmaconsulting.biz] Sent: January 3, 2006 6:13 PM To: 'themes@drupal.org' Cc: 'chrisb@openconcept.ca'; 'Greg Bennett' Subject: Dynamic horizontal taxonomy menu with xTemplate
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 57 Grandview Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4K 1J1 416.466.1281, 416.466.1277 (f) joe.murray@jmaconsulting.biz Skype: josephpmurray