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Whats up Druplers... Ive been working on my first Drupal project, and so far its pretty amazing. Ive had a few run ins that took some head banging to figure out, but thats how learning goes... and i didnt really like that dog anyway.... but...
I have been trying to get my menu block to only display the menu items that are under the current page.. and I dont want any menu items on the home page.
I have a flash header with a menu as my main navigation. So basically I want it when I click a page in my flash menu, that it will pull up the page and a block of the pages created under that page.
(sorry my Drupal child parent lingo sucks, I hope I am somewhat clear on my intentions)
I have tried doing it with CSS and it was getting dirty quick... any better ideas?
Thanks TONS.. any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.. and when I get this Drupal all figured out Ill be returning the favor(s).
-theHuston
If you enable book module
If you enable book module and create each of your top level pages as a new "book" then you will automatically have a block available that shows the nav for that book.
However when you are on a child page it will still show parents and siblings as well as any children of its own. If that's not what you want then try http://drupal.org/project/menu_block.
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk
Huh.
Ill look into that module, thanks buddy.
I forgot that if somthing is "hard" to just find a module. :p
Chris Huston
theHuston.com
yah
Menu block allows you to choose your sub menus individually,
but menu_block_split, menu_trim or local_menu (and others?!) will shave off the top of the current context and only show the local 2nd nav and down. This means you can build just one big tree heirarchy and the system will figure out the rest.
http://drupal.org/search/node/type%3Aproject_project+split+menu
I'm not 100% sure of what the difference between implementations is. Mostly in the UI and configs IIRC.
.dan.
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Awesome...... but uh.
works perfect, exactly what I was looking for.
Only problem is it renders my image node on the bottom of the menu list.
Any ideas how to get it not to?
Again, Heeuuge thanks guys.
Chris Huston
theHuston.com
Where should it be? Can you
Where should it be? Can you post a link to the site?
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk
Well Im localhost
It currently is local.. but Ill do a screen cap and upload..
http://www.thehuston.com/menuWork.jpg
Under "News and Events" is where my secondary menu block appears. Because the page node has an image node in it, it displays the image node under the menu block.. or in it.. im not sure.
thanks... again.
Chris Huston
theHuston.com
I see what you mean. I
I see what you mean. I wonder if the image node is in the menu tree somehow. If so, remove it. Or configure the menu block to show only the one level or somesuch.
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk
That's freaky, but it can't
That's freaky, but it can't be a menu blocks doing.
Isn't that just the image_attach block?
Use firebug to see what the wrappers around the image are called, or check your admin-blocks page.
.dan.
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HEEAAYY! That is what it
HEEAAYY!
That is what it was.. I never turned the image_attach block on... so I didnt even suspect him.. Sorry, I feel a wee bit soompid now.
This is my first Drupal site, soon Ill stop asking stupid questions.
Thanks for your time though guys, much appriciated.
Chris Huston
theHuston.com
Nah, don't worry about
Nah, don't worry about it.
image_attach auto-enables the block on install without telling you :-/ which I find redundant nowadays as it shows up in the body anyway. It may have had a reason to do that a while ago, but that should probably be fixed.
.dan.
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Yes good point menu block
Yes good point menu block should be putting node title and link in the block, not anything else!
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk
How can I get the parent?
How would I go about putting the title of the parent above the text links... and have the title of the child page in a different spot.
For instance when you click on "Abous Us", you go to the abous us page and see its title above the child links....
then if I click on one of the children, the "about us" stays above the child links.. but a title for "our mission" comes up to the right.. (or in some print() area)
So i guess what Im asking is.. i know about
<?php print $title ?>but is there an
<?php print $parentTitle ?>Just... wondering.. if anyone happens to know..
Thanks for all your guys' help..
-theHuston
Chris Huston
theHuston.com
Okay so I just went looking
Okay so I just went looking and found...
<?php$parent = node_load( $node->parent );
echo $parent->title;
?>
This will solve problems.. but on the pages where "Home" is the parent.. it should just be
<?php print $title ?>So I am thinking..
<?php$parent = node_load( $node->parent );
if(($parent->title)=="home"){
print $title;
}else{
echo $parent->title;
}
?>
but obviously its not "home"... i think im close though.
or not.. I tried... <?php
or not..
I tried...
<?php$parent = node_load( $node->parent );
echo $parent->title;
?>
and I got all kinds of errors.. Im using Drupal 5.whathaveyou... I didnt go with 6 because of AMFPHP and Flex application later..
Am a bit confused exactly
Am a bit confused exactly what you are trying to do ... maybe print the $breadcrumb, which should already be available to your page.tpl.php?
gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk