Sidemenutree?

I sincerely apologize for not getting back to you sooner. Thank you for your willingness to pursue this request for a sibling menu.

I consider the menu title not a big issue, but it would be interesting to have some direct control over the menu title per node. For example, if I have a child menu of individual states, submenutree would put the parent menu item as the title, in this example I'd say "USA". I would like to have the control of the title to say "USA Navigation" or "Explore further into the US". But this would be specific to the node page, just as the submenutree is controlled on a per node basis.

Of course that would probably be a monster to work out in comparison to a sibling menu module or something like that.

Anyways, thanks again, I'm heading to my test site to submenutree-ize some more nodes right now.

Superb!!! I will check that out ASAP!

Wow! This thing rocks hard now! I'll be sure to let you know when my site goes live so you can see it in action.

I send many thanks, and hope this is put into drupal core someday... talk about essential!

My only extra thought now is whether there is a way to exclude the node you are on from the siblingmenu list, I suppose as a configurable option.

But regardless of whether that is possible or not, the module as is gets my highest praise... thank you.

That's all good. Do you think it would be a difficult thing to override by a themeable function? I'm embarrassed by how little I know about the theming system altogether, at best I'm a guy who writes HTML/CSS by hand. I don't know anything about "if" statements.

Just as a follow-up, I found this script in another forum post... that I deleted an undesired part from... and by putting it into my theme's template.php it doesn't display the menu item of the current node, making the siblingmenutree truly rock!

The only problem I'm having is that even though it removes the menu item, it doesn't remove the li code that would go around it.

<li class="leaf"></li>

The only problem with this is that it shows a bullet for this entry even though the menu item isn't shown. I want to have the bullets on the menu item list, so removing all bullets won't work. I'll be looking into this.

Here is the code to remove the menu item though:

 function phptemplate_menu_item_link($item, $link_item) {

/***
  *  - no link tag is provided on the menu item for the current page
  */

  $this_page = menu_get_active_title();

  $linked_item   = l($item['title'], $link_item['path'], !empty($item['description']) ? array('title' => $item['description']) : array(), isset($item['query']) ? $item['query'] : NULL);

  if ($item['title'] == $this_page || drupal_is_front_page() && $item['title'] == "Home" || $active) {
    return $unlinked_item;
  }

  else {
    return $linked_item;
  }

}

So now I'm a good way there... just need to figure out how to disable that li and It'll be smoking.

Oh yeah... this is the original link to the code I modified:

http://drupal.org/node/171529

And here was his code

<?php
function phptemplate_menu_item_link($item, $link_item) {

/***
  * Overrides the HTML output for all links in block menus
  *  - no link tag is provided on the menu item for the current page
  *  - <strong> tags are added to the current page's menu item, to emphasise it as the current page.
  */

  $this_page = menu_get_active_title();

  $unlinked_item = "<strong>". $item['title'] ."</strong></li>\n"; // causes menu to stop at this p
oint.

  $linked_item   = l($item['title'], $link_item['path'], !empty($item['description']) ? array('title' => $item['description']) : array(), isset($item['query']) ? $item['query'] : NULL);

  if ($item['title'] == $this_page || drupal_is_front_page() && $item['title'] == "Home" || $active) {
    return $unlinked_item;
  }

  else {
    return $linked_item;
  }

}
?>

In case anyone visiting this thread is interested.

I just gave that code a shot but the page wasn't removed from the siblingmenu list. Its color was changed to black though. I'm using zen as my theme, so maybe that is part of it?

Revised... scratch that, I used my brain for a second and figured it out. Anyone using this be sure to change "yourtheme" to your theme name.

But wow bengtan... this is a complete solution now if there ever was one. I am giving you my highest appreciation once again.

I just realized that this causes a bit of a problem for me.

In my drupal install I have two main menus... my user menu which includes "my account, administer, create content" and the other menu is my site navigation, like my example above "USA, states..."

My problem is that whereas I would like for the items to be removed from the site navigation list, I would like the normal tree structure to work on the user menus.

So my question is, is there a way to make this template script/function target only one menu tree and not the other?