bulletmenu and others in custom plugins

[jptechnical]

What would it take to put the bulletmenu and the variations into the custom plugin table and make it editable from the admin? How about the same for new plugins that are single file based?

my problem:

I use the bullet menu for occaision but I needed one with different styles for a right hand nav.

my solution

I made a duplicate bulletmenu.php file called bulletmenu2.php and did a find and replace bulletmenu - bulletmenu2. Now I have the css I need for the second bulletmenu in my css sheet attached to the templtes (I love that!).


I tried to copy and paste the content from the php file into a custom plugin but I kept getting the invalid code error (I have worked with PHP for years but have no aptitude for code... only the most basic of basic troubleshooting and modifications). The pro for this is obvious that you can hop in and comment out a line or make a quick change in much less time that it takes to change the file and ftp it up. What are the cons of putting these into the database?

thanks.

[Ted]

What would it take? About 36 seconds.

Here's the trick... Just take the contents of smarty_cms_function_bulletmenu and paste it into a user defined tag. So, it would start at

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global $gCms;

and end at

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return $menu;

If it doesn't work, let me know (I didn't actually try it), but I'm PRETTY positive it will.

Enjoy