[archived] mdp_SectionMenu

ray.williams · 2004-09-14 18:40:38

Ah! Thank you very much! I’m playing with the plugin now that I know how to use it. But I do have one more question: Can I get this plugin to list pages that are not a part of txp? If you look at my site, you’ll see a link called “Pictures”. It’s totally outside of txp, but I’d like it to be a part of the section list.

mattwebb · 2004-09-23 11:51:10

Hey there !

Does anybody know what i am doing wrong with this ?? I am using the section menu… it works fine if i only apply the “id” option to it, but if i want to change the order, it only displays the “home” option and nothing else, no matter what i have in the order ???

Here is the tag i have put in the template..

txp:mdp_sectionmenu id=“nav” order=“home, contact”

Can anyone see what ive done wrong… i have mdp_lib installed and V0.3 of the plug in.

??

help please !

Matt

Last edited by mattwebb (2004-09-23 14:07:38)

greenrift · 2004-09-23 14:16:50

> mattwebb wrote:

> Hey there !

> Does anybody know what i am doing wrong with this ?? I am using the section menu… it works fine if i only apply the “id” option to it, but if i want to change the order, it only displays the “home” option and nothing else, no matter what i have in the order ???

> Here is the tag i have put in the template..

> txp:mdp_sectionmenu id=“nav” order=“home, contact”

> Can anyone see what ive done wrong… i have mdp_lib installed and V0.3 of the plug in.

> ??

> help please !

> Matt

Try removing the space between the comma and the next section name. I’ll have to fix this sometime later.

mattwebb · 2004-09-23 14:36:04

Still no go mate… ive tried every combination i can think of… it still shows nothing but the Homepage link… unless i remove “order”. :( boo hoo…

any other idea’s ??????

hafnius · 2004-09-23 14:41:41

Hey Mattwebb

Have you tried taking out “Home” from the order?
/Hafnius

mattwebb · 2004-09-23 15:25:45

Taking “home” out just makes it render nothing at all ! :-O !

any other idea’s ??????

greenrift · 2004-09-23 23:25:21

> mattwebb wrote:
> Taking “home” out just makes it render nothing at all ! :-O !

Maybe try uninstalling the plugin and installing again? I try to recreate your situation but I can’t duplicate it at all.

<txp:mdp_sectionmenu id="nav" order="home,contact" /> does not work? And you are positive you have nothing in your style sheet that would make an element with id equal to ‘nav’ not appear?

mattwebb · 2004-09-24 08:42:24

Ok. Ive sorted it…. i dont know what it was that was doing it, but i made a test with a fresh install of textpattern, and now its fixed.

wierdness hey !

While i am here.. Does anybody know how to change the default section name of “home” ? For example, what if i want it to say “bob” instead ???

Last edited by mattwebb (2004-09-24 08:42:42)

mattwebb · 2004-09-30 08:28:21

Hey hey !! Me again ! :)

Ive been playing around out of my curiosity to find out what was going wrong before, i have found that if you have your section names in caps, AND use the “order” option. The section menu breaks and only displays “home”.

Im not much of a PHP whizz… so i was wondering if anyone can help me. I want to do 2 things:

1) Make it so i can have my section names in caps AND use the order function.

2) find out how i can change the default “Home” to “HOME”

Any clues ??

Matt

greenrift · 2004-09-30 14:10:50

> mattwebb wrote:

> Hey hey !! Me again ! :)

Ive been playing around out of my curiosity to find out what was going wrong before, i have found that if you have your section names in caps, AND use the “order” option. The section menu breaks and only displays “home”.

Im not much of a PHP whizz… so i was wondering if anyone can help me. I want to do 2 things:

1) Make it so i can have my section names in caps AND use the order function.

2) find out how i can change the default “Home” to “HOME”

Any clues ??

Matt

I just had an idea on how I could do that, allow user text transformations in the actual code itself. You could use the CSS property “text-transform” to do that, though. Search google for it to get some more information

mattwebb · 2004-09-30 14:25:25

…… blasphemy

You are right ! dammit… my thoughts were so damn focused on textpattern itself, i didnt think to look in to an alternative such as that, also that is a css property i never use..

…… and it works.

champion !

CHEERS !

theturninggate · 2005-02-04 16:38:08

Does this plugin work when you use messy urls? Doesn’t seem to for me.

andjules · 2005-02-07 22:21:24

I made a couple of hacks in my install – urlencoding where appropriate to have section names with spaces and yet appropriate hrefs and ids.

1) changed
$tagatts[] = ($sect 'default') ? ' href="'.$pfr.'"' : ' href="'.$pfr.$sect.'"'; to $tagatts[] = ($sect ‘default’) ? ‘ href=”’.$pfr.’”’ : ‘ href=”’.$pfr.urlencode($sect).’”’;
2) changed
$tagatts[] = ‘ id=“menu_’.strtolower($sectionname).’”’;
to
$tagatts[] = ‘ id=“menu_’.strtolower(urlencode($sectionname)).’”’;
3) changed
$content = tag(ucwords($sectionname),‘span’);
to
$content = tag($sectionname,‘span’);
(i didn’t want auto-capitalization!)

thought this might help someone other than me
i also found that i had to change my section-named, extensionless text files (for clean URLs) to use ‘+’ in the name where you’d have a space

and theturninggate… yes, i had trouble with messy urls too. didn’t spend much time on it, though.

icubyx · 2005-02-08 05:20:12

HI…I’ve been looking for a plugin which lets me do exactly things that this plugin does. Feel this should have been in the core TxP itself.
I also want the current section to be highlighted / differentiated in some way. Any ideas how I could this?
Thanks!

andjules · 2005-02-08 14:48:19

icubyx:
“I also want the current section to be highlighted / differentiated in some way”
this is built in to the plugin. the current section is given class=“active”… so add an .active class to your css and you’ve got your differentiated-current-section.

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