[themes] Dynamic horizontal taxonomy menu with xTemplate

[Joe Murray]

Thanks for your generous reply, Ber.

We were hoping for a three level dynamic drop down solution similar to what
jsDOMenu provides vertically. We love the integration of taxonomy_menu and
the existing menu admin interface, and were hoping to dynamically populate
the new system for one menu-oriented vocabulary. The site is built using the
CivicSpace 0.8.2 installer, with CiviCRM upgraded to 1.3, so it's Drupal
4.6.

Perhaps I'll go back and look at Primary and Secondary Links, but they
didn't seem to provide functionality of the sort we were looking for in 4.6.

As an update, due to tight timelines we've shifted to a different menuing
solution that is unfortunately not integrated with Drupal's taxonomy. Would
love to revisit this in future projects.

Cheers,

Joe
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: themes-bounces at drupal.org 
> [mailto:themes-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bèr Kessels
> Sent: January 4, 2006 5:26 PM
> To: A list for theme developers
> Subject: Re: [themes] Dynamic horizontal taxonomy menu with xTemplate
> 
> In 4.7 this is all handled in core. It has been quite well 
> documented in the code so I suggest you read the example code 
> in the core themes in HEAD and the functions in menu.module
> 
> Pre 4.6 I developed a module called primary_links to handle 
> this. But as the name "module" indicates it is quit "bolted 
> on". You can use it well, but I suggest you best not use it 
> when you distribute the sites for people that will have to 
> built there own menus afterwards. For your own development it 
> should work without any problems.
> 
> 
> both the 4.7 and primary links solutions are a lot better 
> controllable by themes. And both use the menu UI to define the links. 
> In combination with taxonomy_menu.module you will not even 
> have to hand-manage the menus!
> 
> Ber
> 
> 
> Op woensdag 04 januari 2006 00:12, schreef Joe Murray:
> > 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 at jmaconsulting.biz
> > Skype: josephpmurray
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