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Posted: **Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:09 pm**

I think I might be missing something obvious here so please let me know.
I want to create a side menu which shows the children of the current page. By itself that is easy: {menu childrenof=$page_alias} works fine.

The problem is when we get to a bottom level page, the menu is (naturally) blank. What we would like to do is show the menu from one level higher; the menu which contains the current page. We only want to do this when there are no children of the current page.

If anyone has a clue of how to begin on this please let me know.
Thanks,
Steve

Posted: **Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:44 pm**

Download and install CGSimpleSmarty and then use the following code.

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{capture assign='menu'}{menu childrenof=$page_alias}{/capture}
{if $menu != ''}
  {$menu}
{else}
  {menu childrenof=$cgsimple->get_parent_alias()}
{/if}

Posted: **Thu Aug 11, 2011 8:03 pm**

Thanks kidcardboard! I knew there was an answer. Also thanks for the tip about CGsimplesmarty - I had installed before when it was required by other modules, but never used it for itself like this. I'm glad to know what it can do.

Steve

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