Sitemap -- Show "Title" instead of "Menu Text"?

[cwaz13]

Hi, I was just wondering if it's possible to display the pages in the sitemap by Title instead of Menu Text.  For example, right now my sitemap looks like:

- about
- contact
- what_we_do


and I'd like it to show the page titles:

- About Our Company
- Contact Us
- What We Do


I was looking through function.sitemap.php but my attempts to change anything keep breaking the page.  I also thought the "add_elements" parameter might do it, but either that's not it, or I'm just not understanding how to use it correctly.

Any help would be great.  Thanks!

[cwaz13]

bump!

[Ted]

If you're using the sitemap tag, it's a simple code change.

Open up plugins/function.sitemap.php.  Look for

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$menu .= ">".$onecontent->MenuText()."</a>";

Change it to:

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$menu .= ">".$onecontent->Name()."</a>";

Not a pleasant solution, but it should work.

Ted

[Russ]

cwaz13,  for accessibility and other reasons, a site map should be a list of actual menus where appropriate. It helps re-inforce navigation and structure. I'm not sure why you are putting:

- about
- contact
- what_we_do

in your menu? Surely

- About Us
- Contact Us
- What We Do

would be better and solve your problem?

However, I've not really checked the code but seem to remember somewhere around line 160

$menu .= ">".$onecontent->MenuText()."";

could perhaps be changed to:

$menu .= ">".$onecontent->Name()."";

Hope this helps,
Russ

[cwaz13]

Hmm... maybe I misinterpreted how some of this works.

When I edit or create a content page, I have "Title" and "Menu Text".  I have the Title set to, for example, "Job Opportunities".  I set the Menu Text to "jobs" as that's what I thought set the URL to that page.... i.e. domain.com/index.php?page=jobs.

How is the URL like that determined?  It appeared to me that it was auto-filled (under the Options tab) from the Menu Text that I used.   But maybe I missed something. 

Also, for this site, I have my own Flash menu already created -- with my own Menu Text, of course -- so I'm not using any of the dynamically-rendered CMS ones.  I have gone into my Flash menu and manually set the links to things like index.php?page=jobs, from what I set as the Menu Text (and what I thought was the auto-determined "Page Alias").

Thanks both for the temp fix, but apparently I was doing this incorrectly anyway?

[Russ]

'Page Alias:' is where the menu is taken from if it is set, it is on the next tab when editing (Options), so maybe you missed it

As for using Flash menus, comments about accessibility and useability spring to mind. It seems a bit strange to me to use such a menu with CMS when it has such a good and flexible menu system?

Hope this helps, just my thoughts

Russ

[cwaz13]

Ok, so I need to set three things?  Title (Page Title) and Menu Text (for CMS submenus and Sitemap) -- both probably the same? -- and then the page alias (used for URL).  Is the page alias always an auto-generated abbreviation of the title or menu text?

And for Flash menus, the reason I was using them here was for appearance, rollovers, animation, etc.  I've taken part in the debate between graphics/Flash and plain markup/CSS plenty of times over the past couple years, and no one ever seems to completely win it.    I do my best to gauge the target audience and use simplicity when needed, for accessibility reasons, but as an artist, I tend to lean toward spicing things up with Flash when the site and/or audience allows.

In most cases, I'd be open to using a CSS dropdown menu if I could at least use images as the main buttons and rollovers.... but from what I saw, I thought CMS was pretty set to use all-text menus, which do not fit my design at all.    If I'm wrong please correct me!  I'd love to have some dynamically-generated CMS menus, as long as I could format them with graphics I create as part of my design.