By michee on

Hello,

I need to create some tabs accessible from a link in the Navigation Menu. These 3 tabs should contain one panel each.
What method should i use? What modules?

Thanks.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Typing the words "panels tabs" into the drupal.org search box yields the following as the first two links:

=============
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

michee’s picture

michee commented

The forum did not help me much. I've tried a lot of exampled there and did not work. I also have panels_tabs installed and i don't know how to use it exactly I need to see a more concrete example.

So once again, I need some tabs and then to display a panel in each tab(each pannel should contain a menu and a view).

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

The forum did not help me much.

That's exactly what I used to create tabs on a fresh d5 install, and the easiest way if you're not already using the panels module for other things.

Here's the step by step:

  1. install jstools (be sure to enable the "Tabs" module is enabled)
  2. create a page or story (or whatever content type you want)
  3. set the input format to "PHP Code"
  4. enter the following code and save the page (it assumes you have at least nodes 1 and 2 with some content in them):
      $node_1 = node_load(array('nid' => 1));
  $tab_1 =  $node_1->body;

  $node_2 = node_load(array('nid' => 2));
  $tab_2 = $node_2->body;

  $form = array();
  $form['myform'] = array(
    '#type' => 'tabset',
  );

  $form['myform']['tab1'] = array(
    '#type' => 'tabpage',
    '#title' => t('T1'),
    '#content' => $tab_1,
  );
  $form['myform']['tab2'] = array(
    '#type' => 'tabpage',
    '#title' => t('T2'),
    '#content' => $tab_2,
  );

  return tabs_render($form);
  5. Customize as needed, but it works as is.

If you wish the tabs to appear in a block, simply replace step 2 above with creating a block.

The steps are taken from the first comment to the thread and the code was further down the thread (http://drupal.org/node/62998#comment-705753). The code works as is directly copied & pasted from the thread, but I genericized it more.

Doing it with panels is also possible, but if you're not using panels, it doesn't really make sense to do it that way.

Being an open source project, documentation often lags behind software releases. It's frequently necessary to read an entire thread in order to piece together the necessary steps for the current version.

===
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. -- Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Search is your best friend." -- Worldfallz