[drupal-devel] primary/secondary links as menu blocks (was: phptemplate in core?)

[Dries Buytaert]

On 02 May 2005, at 08:32, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:

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> On Mon, 2 May 2005, Robert Douglass wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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).  This can be worked on independently from the phptemplate 
engine.
I don't think anyone is working on this.

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