BlueWater Manager Menu design

I’m thinking that we could use <ul>s to structure the manager menus:

<ul>
<li>Main1</li>
<ul>
<li>item1</li>
<li>item2</li>
</ul>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>Main2</li>
<ul>
<li>item1</li>
<li>item2</li>
</ul>
</ul>

The core menus will be stored inside the database using the structure:

id, name, action, parentid

A menu file (cms.menus.php) could be generated and stored inside the assets/cache folder to prevent reading data from database. cache file can be regenerated when a new module or resource is installed.

On-the-fly menus could return their values based on the OnMenuItemPreRender event. On-the-fly menus will not be cached.

Perfect Raymond! Only we need to slightly restructure the code a bit. A fully/true nested menu should be done as follows and would make for really robust styling via CSS:



We could even use some of the same logic for menu building as is in the DropMenu snippet... um.. plugin.

ok,

remember that manager class names and ids should use a prefix (e.g. cms_)

Cool... and I like "cms_", too.