Need a php doctor..to make a simple modification in a script

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astrolabe Reply #1, 18 years, 10 months ago

Hello,

Do you know the plugin Autotoc, able to generate a synopsis of document based on the H tags ? Here is the link : (http://modxcms.com/Automatic-TOC-Navbar-994.html).

This plugin functions perfectly, but unfortunately does not restore the hierarchical level of the H titles in the HTML result. They leave all on the same level without means of differentiating them…

I think that it would take 2 minutes for an expert php to solve this problem.
The lines concerned with this problem (generation of the <ul><li>… </li></ul> of the TOC) go from line 125 to 135 in script.

An idea? Its author is unfortunately not available at this moment.

Thank you very much if the subject interests you

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dev_cw Reply #2, 18 years, 10 months ago

I have thought about this for another use. The trick is to identify the ’level’ of the item. There are to many alternatives that make this a bigger problem than just a few minutes to resolve (I sure ain’t no doctor, so a real doctor could do better). Here is an example scenario:

h1
--h2
----h3
------h4
h1
h1
----h3
--h2
h1

We know that you should use a hierarchy but it is not always the case. How would the above case be outputted?

<ul>
  <li>h1</li>
    <ul>
      <li>h2</li>
        <ul>
          <li>h3
            <ul>
              <li>h4</li>
            </ul>
        </ul>
    </ul>
<li>h1</li>
<li>h1</li>
<ul>
    <ul>
       <li>h3</li>
         <ul>
           <li>h2</li>
        </ul>
    </ul>
</ul>
<li>h1 </li>
</ul>

To get this to work each item needs to know if it is a child of another file and ’remember’ the depth and parent/child state. Also what happens if there is a lonely h2. Will it show up as second level or first level. I am interested, but it is a bit beyond my mental capacity to figure this out.

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astrolabe Reply #3, 18 years, 10 months ago

Thank you very much, dev_cw !

I believe to understand the problem which you raise… Another solution would perhaps simply consist to assigning a class at the exit code according to the initial level of the title (h1: class= " toto", H2: class= " titi ", ...) ?

I know it is less clean with dimensions code, but isn’t this more simply realizable ?

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ganeshXL Reply #4, 18 years, 10 months ago

hmm, I think this could be better solved with using XML as input-format. You can nest nodes in XML any way you want (as long as it’s well-formed, of course). But this being a Saturday afternoon, I can think of a few more entertaining activities right now

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astrolabe Reply #5, 18 years, 10 months ago

Thank you very much.

In fact, with you and Sottwell, I could solve the problem via the plugin Page TOC generator http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,20583.0.html

Version corrected by Sottwell (it seems that there has a problem on the last version in line 203 of Page TOC …).

Thank you still!