Yep this works. I've done similar things to make
blocks appear on specific pages. You don't technically need path_auto to
accomplish this. If you use the path module, you can manually set up each
page with a path (e.g. news/todaysnews). What pathauto does for you is to
automatically set the "path" alias names based on content type and/or taxonomy
term plus the page title. You can always override a particular page by
specifically setting its path, provided you have the path module enabled.
Menu sections can easily be reorganized into
different blocks by following the basic steps.
-
Make sure menu module is enabled and add a menu item.
-
Make sure you have administer menu
priviledges.
-
Make a new menu block using "Add a Menu" under
Administer->Menus
-
Move or add a menu item to your new menu by changing its "Parent Item"
to the newly created menu.
-
Now go to Administer->Blocks to control the placement of your newly
created menu block in the normal way, as well as which paths it might appear
on.
Dave
> > ...I have the main header with the primary links
>
> which never changes regardless of the section... on the menubar on
> the left
> > or right of the page I will have a submenu
which will change whenever
> I go
> > to a different
section......
> >
> > Can this be achieved using drupal...?
If so how....?
>
> You can use a custom block with php if-then
conditions or switches. Not
> sure if there is an easier
way.
>
> If you don't know how to code, it is perhaps better to
make separate
> blocks with the menu links in them and only set their
visibility in
> block admin pages, otherwise you can make one block
with different PHP
> conditions to display the links as they should be
per page.
>
If you use pathauto to create your paths for you then
you could set up
a system that splits your "different sections" into
different URLs on
the site such
as:
forum/
blog/
news/
And then create blocks appropriate
for those sections and in the block
visibility settings set the blocks to
only show on forum/* pages or
blog/* pages as appropriate.
With
pathauto it's possible to separate by either node type (as shown
above) or
by the lowest weighted taxonomy term in the lowest
weighted
taxonomy.
Regards,
Greg
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