menu integration / plans for D6
omjn - October 8, 2008 - 06:47
| Project: | Outline Designer |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
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I posted to your blog also, but thought I might start a discussion in this space, as it seems more appropriate. I noticed you are working on menu integration with OD, but just wanted to ask if that is not perhaps duplicated effort with the integration already in D6, which has full integration. Seems that adding this functionality to D5 will require you to remove it again when you get around to upgrading the module to D6. Which brings me to the second part of the question - do you have any concrete plans for a D6 version beyond the todo list?
#1
Ummm... that what is already integrated in D6? Books and menus? I've already added the menu generation functionality to OD in a dev form I'm working off of. I was unaware of an integration between books and menus in D6 but if you could point that out to me that'd be awesome! It's like 10 lines of code that i've marked off and I could just delete them if need be.
At the moment there aren't really any new features planned for the D6 port of this module. Part of the reason I've still been working on the 5 version is that we use it internally at Penn State in our workflow. I also figured it would be easier to write for 5 and then when it was all solid port it up to 6. If you have any feature requests for a 6 version I'd be more then willing to look into them as we've made a ton of improvements based on suggestions posted here. At the moment though I'm fixing up a port of FLIR to work with facelift 1.2, this project is next on the slate though for upgrade / conversion. I'll probably start on it next week.
#2
Yes, sorry if I was overzealous, if not alarmist.
To be clear, AFAIK book module was rewritten for D6 and is based on the new menu API. I was basing this on the little information that is available at http://drupal.org/node/114774#book_module. The extent to which this effects your menu generation code I don't know, as the D6 book module doesn't seem to explicitly generate menus in the end-user sense, which I'm guessing is what you are trying to achieve.
Anyway, I'll mark this as closed for now. I don't have explicit requests for a D6 version or D6 features - just see a lot of promise...
#3
Hmmm... Interesting. Looking through that and playing with a D6 site it seems like this could speed up development big time (woohoo!). I'll have to convert my module's calls to the book functionality but it seems like that will be minimal. Look for a developmental release sometime next week if all goes well :)