Simple menu block module example?

By thrice on 7 Feb 2006 at 14:58 UTC

Can anyone point me at a simple example of a module that creates a menu inside a block? Just a heading with a couple of menu items underneath it, written in such a way that it follows the theme (I'm using phptemplate).

I've read the documentation but it won't quite gel. I tried looking at the menu.module code and got more confused than ever. A simple example I can build on would help a lot.

Comments

menu tree

Folkert commented 7 February 2006 at 15:56

Well if you mean you want a menu form a certain menu-item you could create a new block 'admin/block/add' and insert a piece of code like:

if ($menu = theme_menu_tree(29)) {
   $menu = "<div class=\"menu\">". $menu . "</div>";
   return $menu;
}
else {return;}

where the number of the menu you want is found in admin/menu/item/edit

luck,

Folkert

Why not just use the menu module to create the menu?

nevets commented 7 February 2006 at 16:04

You can use the menu module to create new menus the enable the block(s) as needed.

depence on the structure i guess

Folkert commented 7 February 2006 at 16:09

If your menu is like 'home'->'headItem'->subItem you could simply make a menu, for let's say 'headItem', like i wrote in the last reply.

For a site wide menu you are right. just enable the block.

I need something more complex

thrice commented 8 February 2006 at 07:35

I need to write a module that picks up items from a database and shows different menu items to different users based on certain criteria found in my business logic.

I'm asking for a simple example of how to build a menu, not because I need to do something simple, but because I need to understand how to do it!