By davidknicker on

Im trying to make a single page have different drop down menu functions depending on what area of the site you navigate to the page from.
For example:
home > products > product type > PAGE (with such drop down menu showing)
then
home > products > manufacturer > PAGE (with this drop down menu showing, not the one above^)

Should i use url aliases? are there better ways to do this?
Please help!

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rockitdev’s picture

rockitdev commented

i know this is in the "coding" section of the form, but what you're describing sounds like a perfect case to use the Hierarchical Select module http://drupal.org/project/hierarchical_select.

Seems to me you could achieve this functionality just using taxonomy with hierarchical select and maybe some views.

jaypan’s picture

jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

Let's say the path to your module is like this:

function my_module_menu()
{
  $menu['my_module/path'] = array
  (
    'page callback' => 'my_module_callback',
    // rest of menu definition goes here
  );
  return $menu;
}

Then you can define your callback like this:

function my_module_callback($origin = FALSE)
{
  if($origin == 'product_type')
  {
    // add stuff when the user comes from product type page
  }
  elseif($origin == 'manufacturer')
  {
    // add stuff when the user comes from manufacturer page
  }
  // add stuff that isn't dependent on the page they came from
  return $something;
}

Then from your product type pages, you link to my_module/path/product type. From manufacturers pages you link to my_module/path/manufacturer, and from any other pages you can link to my_module/path.

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