DropMenu

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raaviraaj Reply #1, 18 years ago

Dear Members,

Need help with dropMenu.

Sitemap is as under:
----------------
MainWebsite.org
|-home (document)
|-content (folder / id="11")
|-dept1 (folder)
|-dept2 (folder)
|-dept3 (folder)

Requirement: My main menu needs to show dep1, dept2, dept3. Clicking on the department needs to make the link "class=selected" so that it can be styled differently.

My Solution: Use dropmenu (as is) in a "chunk" which in turn is placed on the template. My dropmenu call goes like this [[DropMenu? &menuName=’mainMenu’ &startDoc=11 &levelLimit=1 &topnavClass=’cf’ &titleOfLinks=’pagetitle’ &hereClass=’selected’ &selfAsLink=’true’]]

Problem:
1) The links are shown correctly, but, the title="" attribute is empty (inspite) of filling up ALL the document specific variables.
2) The hereClass value (i.e. "selected") does NOT append to the li/a of the active link.

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks in advance.

-raavi

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Ryan Thrash Reply #2, 18 years ago

Don’t use single-quote characters: ’

Use backticks: `

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dernier_recours Reply #3, 18 years ago

For problem 2, there are problems with hereclass and setaslink. Look here:
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,2609.msg17880.html#msg17880

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raaviraaj Reply #4, 18 years ago

Thanks ryan and dernier,

Both the suggestions helped! This IMHO is the best support forum there is.

I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to each one of you.

BTW, in the DropMenu Snippet, can I give my bounding DIV an ID rather than a CLASS. I did try it.

Taken from the documentation with DropMenu
###########################################
// Usage Examples #
// ###########################################
// Creates menu with wrapping DIV with id=myMenu, starting at the site root, two levels deep,
// with descriptions next to the links, and nested UL elements with class=nestedLinks; output
// of menu can be placed in layout using placeholder named myMenu ( e.g. [ +myMenu+ ] )
// [[DropMenu? &menuName=`myMenu` &startDoc=`0` &levelLimit=`2` &topdiv=`true` &showDescription=`true` &subnavClass=`nestedLinks`]]

it doesn’t seem to work.

warm regards,

-raavi

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openfire3 Reply #5, 18 years ago

If you’ve changed that part of the code it won’t work. All those lines are comments (each of those lines start with //) and won’t be read by php. I think you’ll have to change this part:

// build the output
			$topdivcls = (!empty($topdivClass)) ? ' class="'.$topdivClass.'"' : '';
			$topdivblk = ($topdiv) ? "<div$topdivcls>" : '';
			$topnavcls = (!empty($topnavClass)) ? ' class="'.$topnavClass.'"' : '';
			$subdivcls = (!empty($subdivClass)) ? ' class="'.$subdivClass.'"' : '';
			$subdivblk = ($subdiv) ? "<div$subdivcls>$ie" : '';
			$subnavcls = (!empty($subnavClass)) ? ' class="'.$subnavClass.'"' : '';
			$output = ($toplevel) ? "$topdivblk<ul$topnavcls>$ie" : "$ie$subdivblk<ul$subnavcls>$ie";

But I don’t see the purpose of using a id instead of class for that.

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