My first custom menu

[cb2004]

I have only been using this software a day. Think its great and I have barely touched it.

I am trying to create my first menu with seperators and only showing a few links.

My call to the menu is this:

{menu template=bottom items=links,contact-us,careers,home}

My menu code is this:

{foreach from=$nodelist item=node}
{if $node->current == true}
{$node->menutext}
{elseif $node->type == 'separator'}
|
{else}
url}">{$node->menutext}
{/if}
{/foreach}

Very basic I know. But the only thing I do not have working is the seperator. Does the items param not call the child pages as the seperator is a child? Is this why they are not showing?

Am I heading in the right direction?

Cheers.

[kermit]

"items" uses page aliases; only those items are shown. separators don't have a page alias to reference...

try something like this instead.. output looks like this:

[iurl=#]Link Text[/iurl] | Current Page | [iurl=#]Link Text[/iurl] | [iurl=#]Link Text[/iurl] | [iurl=#]Link Text[/iurl]

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{if $count > 0}

<p class="links">{strip}

  {counter start=0 name=itemcount assign=itemcount print=false}

  {foreach from=$nodelist item=node}

    {counter name=itemcount print=false}
    {if $itemcount ne '1'} | {/if}
    {if $node->current eq true}<span class="current">{$node->menutext}</span>
      {else}<a href="{$node->url}">{$node->menutext}</a>
    {/if}

  {/foreach}

{/strip}</p>

{/if}

[cb2004]

Superb. No idea what the code does, but I modified it slightly and now, its perfect .

[kermit]

{* "if no menu items to process, then don't bother" *}

{if $count > 0}


{* this wraps your menu in a tag so you can style it; the strip removes extra linefeeds and spaces from output *}

{strip}


{* this counts the menu items; a quick-n-dirty way to skip the separator before the first item *}

  {counter start=0 name=itemcount assign=itemcount print=false}


{* this is the start of the main loop for the menu *}

  {foreach from=$nodelist item=node}


{* this counts up one (from zero, above) *}

    {counter name=itemcount print=false}


{* add a separator before all but the first item *}

    {if $itemcount ne '1'} | {/if}


{* if current page, add a span and class so you can style it different, didn't *need* the class (p.links span would've been enough), but added it to make the purpose of the span obvious. *}

    {if $node->current eq true}{$node->menutext}


{* otherwise it's "just a link" *}

      {else}url}">{$node->menutext}

    {/if}


{* cycle through all menu items *}

  {/foreach}


{* the end, closing open tags *}

{/strip}

{/if}