By blue92877 on

If you click here:

http://www.thebeijinger.com/classifieds

You'll see that thebeijinger.com has a pretty nice dynamic menu that represents their classifieds categories. I'd like to replicate that. But my question is, how did they do it?

I can see this being a solution: 1) using views, create a page view for each category 2) creating a new menu and assigning that view page path to each menu element 3) installing DHTML Menu module to handle the expanding contracting.

But, this seems overly tedious and a lot of work when categories need to be modified, added, deleted.

Any thoughts?

Also, I'm really interested in understanding how they have an rss feed for each category. That's fantastic - how did they add that?

Thanks!
Blue

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

The behavior suggests it is a taxonomy based menu, parent items are taxonomy terms, child items are node titles. There are several modules that implement such menus.

matkeane’s picture

matkeane commented

Hi,

Are there really several modules that do this? Finding a solution for menus which show vocabulary terms and the associated nodes has become something of a holy grail for me recently. The closest I've got is Taxonomy Menu combined with NAT, but this still has some problems. The other modules I've looked at either turn out to display terms only, or have performance problems - If I've overlooked some, I'd love to know!

coreyp_1’s picture

coreyp_1 commented

You don't need to create a page view for each category, you create one page view, and set up an argument that pulls the taxonomy term from the URL.

As an example, look at the default View that ships with Drupal. It is meant to override the default Taxonomy listings. It has a path of "taxonomy/term/%". It will give you an idea of how it works.

-Corey

blue92877’s picture

blue92877 commented

Thanks for the responses guys, it helped, and you're right, Taxonomy Menu module works for creating the menu structure. Any thoughts on how they applied the rss to each individual menu item? as well as the count to the right of the item? (although, that last part is not so important)

cburschka’s picture

cburschka
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Taxonomy menu has a node count as far as I'm aware. You need to enable it though.

cburschka’s picture

cburschka
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Not sure why, but while the UI matches that of DHTML Menu, both the HTML and JS code appear entirely different and either a custom job or from a different project. You would be able to get basically the same functionality using DHTML Menu, however.