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• Paustian
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 29, 2008 - 07:15 PM

  Is there any documentation that is Zikula specific on how to do a layers menu? I see this has been implemented for the catagories module and a few others, but I am just missing a small part on what to do.
  
  I have the tree being implemented correctly and it displays fine on the page, but collapsing the menu is not working. I can hack a solution by looking at the phplayersmenu code, but I want to do it the right way for Zikula. It seems as if my problem is how do I hook up the javascript code that runs them menus to the page being rendered? Any step-by-step instructions on this? Thanks in advance. I will try to write something up once I have this all figured out and put it in the Wiki.

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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 29, 2008 - 11:14 PM

  Do you really want to use the phplayersmenu? For Zikula there is also the menutree block. This block makes a multi level menu available where by means of templates and style sheets you choose how the menu is displayed.
  phplayersmenu is rather heavy and IMHO complicated. A menu that uses a simple nested unordered list for the menu is much nicer.
  
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• Paustian
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 29, 2008 - 11:42 PM

  Thanks for the reply. This is for the user interface for a module, can I use a block for that? My goal is this, I am working on the editing interface for my Book module. There will be many pages that will be listed, and the interface right now is really klunky. My plan was to use a menu tree that listed each book and the chapters, and then you could choose the article you wanted to edit from the list. Something like this
  
  
  

  Code

  Book 1
         chapter 1
             article 1
             article 2
             article 3
             article 4
         chapter 2
         chapter 3
         chapter 4
         chapter 5
         chapter 6

  
  
  You could then toggle each chapter and see the articles. Each article would have links for editing and deleting. Any suggestions on how to to this is appreciated.
  
  Tim

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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 12:51 AM

  Ah like that. Didn't read good enough probably
  There are very nice tree menu scripts out there, much more elegant then phplayermenu IMHO.
  Check out for example this treemenu on dynamicdrive or this one using jquery.
  
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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 12:55 AM

  A nice article about tree implementations: http://ajaxian.com/archives/jstree-jquery-based-javascript-tree-component
  
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• Paustian
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 30, 2008 - 01:05 AM

  This.... is.... awesome!!!!!
  
  Thanks!

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