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What would it take to make a location aware bullet menu, one that knew where it was and displayed the children?

i.e.

Say this is the site layout.

1 home
2 about us
2.1 mission statement
2.2 vision statement
2.3 Disclaimer
3 contact us


On the about us page I would like a smarty tag {awarebullet -displayhome="yes"}

This would display on whatever page it is put exactly what the bullet menu does now with the starting level set to '2' only instead it already knows where it is. Optionally displayhome="no" would omit the page you are on from displaying on the menu.

I possibly have a client with a HUGE site and a HUGE archive of newsletters in html. These archives are a main page and 3 children. I would put this location aware tag in the template and just start dumping in the html. Then it would auto generate ALL of the structure of links from the parent/child structure of the site.

Tell me what you think.


btw... does anyone have a site with 650+ urls? (i.e. static content, pdfs and other links, likely 70% or more are content pages) That is the size site I am talking about. Likely I would seperate the archive in a subdomain with it's own database and maintain it seperately.

Well, I didn't to look at doing any of the other things, but bulletmenu is location aware in svn now. It's a start...

I can certainly work with that!

Any idea on the .9 release date?

I think rc1 is coming out tomorrow or Tuesday. Then it's a matter of fixing bugs. Maybe a week?

Awesome!

Check out my Ell-Nav module on the Wiki.

It has the capability you describe.

Let me know if you run into any problems with it!

sjg wrote:Check out my Ell-Nav module on the Wiki.

It has the capability you describe.

Let me know if you run into any problems with it!

I actually downloaded it and looked through the docs and what not before posting this thread... but I am at a loss as to what the 'standard L shape' is. I have an idea but I could be wrong.

Any chance you can post a clip of how the nav looks or how it operates? I will install it and test it as soon as the .9 rc1 is released. But that is usually what I look for first... a demo somewhere. If i find a demo I check it out and for all the others that didnt have a demo they are the last to get checked out. That is how I eval scripts.

thanks.

jptechnical wrote:
I actually downloaded it and looked through the docs and what not before posting this thread... but I am at a loss as to what the 'standard L shape' is. I have an idea but I could be wrong.

Any chance you can post a clip of how the nav looks or how it operates? I will install it and test it as soon as the .9 rc1 is released. But that is usually what I look for first... a demo somewhere. If i find a demo I check it out and for all the others that didnt have a demo they are the last to get checked out. That is how I eval scripts.

thanks.

Well, I guess the L-shaped thing is something of a misnomer.

I don't yet have a site where I can demo the module. I will be putting up a site soon, but I need to get some approvals first.

I'll try to generate some JPGs. The concepts and layouts are actually really simple; it's just kind of hard to describe in words. I apologize for the lousy documentation, and for being generally inarticulate...

For a simple test, though, just put the basic {cms_module module='EllNav' showtoplevel=1} in your template where you'd typically have a vertical navigation. I think that the default should be pretty close to what you want.

great I will give it a try.