Wayfinder Config Challenge - Show us yours and we will show you ours

This is an unsanctioned official challenge to the modx and specifically the Wayfinder user community.

I know that many of you have put together some cool menus and that some may even already be in config file format. The current configs available for Wayfinder are fantastic but are falling a bit behind the times. I would like to build up a library of menu configs complete with all the necessary companion file in one easy to install compressed package (that means a .zip  file).

To start off the season I am offering the Digg Menu style config. You can download the config and see a demo here (or get them from the attached zip).

OK. The challenge has been issued. If those who can contribute a config participate we can end up with a nice library of modern menu configs that we can all enjoy.

Now let’s see what you got!

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Edit: here is a preview of 2 more configs ready to release (but have not built pages for them yet):
Superfish (jQuery) multi-level
Fancy Dop-down (jQuery) - This one is still a bit buggy in FF but degrades well.

I had no idea of this parameter! Is it only compatible with/made for jQuery menus?

Quote from: mrhaw at Dec 12, 2008, 07:40 AM

I had no idea of this parameter! Is it only compatible with/made for jQuery menus?

No. you can use the config file for any wayfinder menu. It is not in the packaged documentation but it is in the documentation in the wiki.:

&config:
# Wayfinder allows you to preload all of the parameters and templates you want for a given Wayfinder call into a single configuration file. Then by by calling Wayfinder with [!wayfinder? &config=`filename`!] you get all the parameters and templates set at once.
# So, if this parameter exists then Wayfinder will interpret the value given as the <name> part of a Wayfinder configuration file, where the full name of the file must be <name>.config.php and the file must be in the directory /assets/snippets/wayfinder/configs/.
# If you specify a file that Wayfinder can’t find, then it will look instead for the default config file: /assets/snippets/wayfinder/configs/default.config.php.
# If Wayfinder can’t find either of these files, then it will ignore the &config parameter.

Great idea and thanks for putting up the challenge.

Also FYI, here’s an old post that might help some folks get started: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=18133.0

Hi Shane,

i’m trying to get your superfish menu working...i tried several wayfinder calls: [[wayfinder? &config=`jmultilevel`]], [!wayfinder? &config=`jmultilevel`!], [[wayfinder?startId=`0` &config=`jmultilevel`]], [!wayfinder?startId=`0` &config=`jmultilevel`!] but none is working, the css and js is loaded to the head like it should, all the paths are okay but the menu either won’t show up at all, or is displayed on the website...do you have any ideas, suggestions or hints what i could be missing? it’s an 0.9.6.1p2 modx-version.

thank you, cheers & happy new year, j

*edit, sorry - i see it in the source-code it’s a css problem...
well, that’s strange, i don’t know, i see the menu in the source, but nothing shows up on the webpage no matter what?!

okay, i got it. the #navigation of the superfish-css was colliding badly with an #navigation i overlooked in my main-css.

btw. i noticed that in IE6 from the second dropdown-menuitem on, not the whole button is clickable. you can fix this by adding "position:relative;" -> .nav a {display:block;position:relative;}

thanks again for the menu!

cheers, j

Glad you got it working and thanks for the tip for getting it to work in IE. I have been meaning to build up a better presentation / support site but it is still on my list of to-dos

okay, my fancypants config goes here -> http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,31940.0.html

Hi dev_cw,

very nice superfish-menu-config - but there’s one thing i’m missing: the active-class to see in wich current menutab the user is!
I tried to get it with:

and some other css-formats - but didn’t get the desired result! I can find the class .active in my source-code but i can’t style it anyway!

Sorry but do you have any suggestions to this small problem?

Another question is: What is this style for - can’t find it in your source!


thx in advance