By tsusiat on

I am using Drupal 5.1 core, and installed Barron 5.x-1.3, after trying a couple other themes like BlueBreeze and Blue Marine.

With those modules, I was able to have the children of the main menu show active when a main menu link was highlighted, but with Barron I can't get these secondary menu links to show. Any suggestions, or would it involve heavy modifications of the theme?

Maybe I am missing something. You can see the site here if you want to see what I mean.

I am happy with how everything else looks and is working so far, I would just like to show the children of the main menu when a link is highlighted....

Here is the menu set-up in general:

" Menu containing primary links:Navigation
Menu containing secondary links: Navigation

If you select the same menu as primary links then secondary links will display the appropriate second level of your navigation hierarchy.

Restrict parent items to: Navigation
Choose the menu to be made available in the content authoring form. Only this menu item and its children will be shown."

Thanks for any advice.

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tsusiat commented

Sorry, I used a drupal address earlier, the correct web-site address is http://cheaprealty.net/home/.

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apsivam commented

Secondary Menus not supported in the Barron theme "out of the box". If you want to include this in the theme use the following code, which will print the secondary menu

  <?php if (isset($secondary_links)) : ?>
    <?php print theme('menu_links', $secondary_links) ?>
  <?php endif; ?>

you definitely need HTML/CSS knowledge to make this look good with the theme.

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Cheers,
Sivanandhan, P. (a.k.a. apsivam)
www.apsivam.in

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tsusiat commented

Sivanandhan,

Thanks for the code snippet, I know a bit more about CSS and X/HTML than PHP, so maybe I can make it look okay.

Thanks for your reply, I will post back once I have tried the modifications and let you know how it went.

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tsusiat commented

Sivanandhan,

I tried the code in the page.tpl.php file and the secondary menu actually looked kind of cool until the links were highlighted. What I have done instead is made a third menu in the sidebar where I will manually add any extra stuff that needs a link.

I will keep the snippet and try to use it in the future with a different theme - if the background was white it would have looked fine.

Thanks.