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• damon
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 31, 2011 - 06:46 AM

  I understnad that in Zikula 1.3.1 menutree is no longer a module but a built-in system block.
  
  Only the most basic menus are available in the core install, are there 1.3.1 versions of the additional menues listed here?
  http://code.zikula.org/projects/blanktheme/wiki/MenutreeTemplates
  
  Is there documentation somewhere on converting additional CSS menu systems into menutree menus?
  
  Please, this is one of those blockers for moving to 1.3.1.
  
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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Oct 31, 2011 - 04:39 PM

  Hi, this is indeed an open action. The "old" additional menus that were made available for menutree have to be ported over and
  maybe a cleanup of the menus can be done then as well. I have been very busy this year with a lot of things (not Zk related) and this is also one thing still to do.
  It is not very hard to port menus on the web to menutree, but you have to understand menutree of course. There is not really a manual
  for it. It depends also quite a lot on the structure that the menu uses (divs, ul/li, etc).
  
  With jQuery now also being fully available in the Core menus using jQuery are also options. I'm using a dynamicdrive menu
  at the moment (on 12x still) which is very nice, see ddlevelsmenu. I want to have that one also available and for my own website (see sig) I have ported it to menutree already. The license of the newer cssplay menus are quite restrictive, ever for personal use.
  http://protofish.procurios.nl/ is also a nice one, MIT licensed based on prottype.
  And dynamic drive has a nice new one: http://www.dynamicdr…dex1/ddmegamenu.htm.
  
  So lots of options to port, but time is limited
  
  
  
  Edited by espaan on Nov 01, 2011 - 05:41 AM.
  
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• damon
  
  

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  Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 03:28 AM

  I was afraid that would be the answer.
  
  So I spent a few hours trying to get ANY of the additional menus to work under 1.3.1 and failed, it's going to take someone with a much better understnading of how menutree was converted to a system block.
  
  I tried taking
  /pnimages
  /pnjavascript
  /pnstyle
  /pntemplates
  /pntemplates/plugins
  
  from /modules/menutree and placing them in
  
  /config/blocks/menutree as
  /images
  /javascript
  /style
  /templates
  /template/plugins
  
  Then changing the names of the templates to match the new naming for instance changed
  menutree_block_chromestyle.htm >> blocks_block_menutree_chromestyle.tpl
  and then made the edits inside that template to change the delimiters from
  

  Code

  <!--[
  to
  {
  and
  ]-->
  to
  }

  
  After all this it didn't work at all, the additional templates weren't visible in the blocks>menutree settings so I guess I didn't get them in the right place. I figured they should be under /config/blocks/menutree because I've read we should mess with the /system directory.
  
  I've given up, I'll have to stick to 1.2.8 yet again.
  
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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 06:04 AM

  Hi
  I have already set up a github repository for the menu projects (menus for menutree and extmenu). I will try to get the ddlevels menu working first and then go from there.
  
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• damon
  
  

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  Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 10:37 AM

  espaan

  Hi
  I have already set up a github repository for the menu projects (menus for menutree and extmenu). I will try to get the ddlevels menu working first and then go from there.

  
  Thank you for working on it.
  
  Don't mean to be negative all the time, the actual menutree functionality in 1.3.1 seems to be fine.
  
  So much is different from 1.2x to 1.3x that is not apparent at first.
  
  Since 1.3.1 is looking strong it takes only a few stable modules and my own learning curve to start creating sites with it.
  
  Menutree - Scribite - Content
  can build most sites
  
  add a fully functioning Clip and you've really got something.
  
  That is assuming I can grasp the theming changes, stil not sure about the overrides.yml file, seems like a step back to have to make a list of templates that are overwritten. (there I go again)
  
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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 12:21 AM

  BTW in menutree in zk13x there is already a multi level horizontal menu included. You could also tune that one to your needs.
  But of course some plug and play menus to start from that are some more graphical can be very handy.
  
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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 08:25 PM

  Hi, just "converted" the suckertree as test. It is really very doable and works out of hte box more or less.
  
  I've put the information on a Wiki page in the github project. https://github.com/e…2.x-to-Zikula-1.3.x
  
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• damon
  
  

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  Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 03:59 AM

  espaan

  Hi, just "converted" the suckertree as test. It is really very doable and works out of hte box more or less.
  I've put the information on a Wiki page in the github project. https://github.com/e…2.x-to-Zikula-1.3.x

  
  Thanks for doing that.
  
  Once converted, will these other menus be added to the standard menutree package in Zikula? It would be a nice addition, otherwise there would need to be a simple way of packaging these to add in by each Zikula user.
  
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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Nov 03, 2011 - 06:12 AM

  Hi, once I have the menus converted it will be a seperate package that can be installed and that can work inside menutree directlry. The licenses of the menus are not always the same and not always allowing including them in open source packages.
  So that prevents from direct inclusion. But the package will be installable and should work just as a normale menutree menu.
  
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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Nov 14, 2011 - 07:08 PM

  Hi, I have uploaded the first menus to the github project: https://github.com/e…us_menutree_extmenu
  You can download by pressing on ZIP. Files are in the correct place and converted to zikula 1.3 standards. I have placed the additional
  menus in config/..
  
  The Wiki explains a bit more on what is what in the menus and how to convert zk12x menutree menus to zk13x menutree menus.
  https://github.com/e…nutree_extmenu/wiki
  
  I have already added several ddlevels menu from dynamicdrive. This is a multi level menu and several example menus are included already from http://www.dynamicdr…smenu/generator.htm. I need to update the Javascript to the latest version.
  
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• michiel
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 19, 2011 - 04:40 AM

  fantastic work, just wanted to say that

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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Dec 19, 2011 - 07:58 AM

  at least the project is there and a set of menus ready for 1.3. There is now also the potential for eassier using jQuery menus, since it is part of the Core.
  
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