Hi all,
I am developing a theme from fusion_core and facing a problem with the main menu (ie. the top menu). Right now it has 2 main items, one is Shopping and another is Services. In Services, there are 2 other items, one is Mobile and another is Cash. I'm using the following code in the file page.tpl.php to print the main menu.
print theme('links__system_main_menu', array(
'links' => $main_menu,
'attributes' => array(
'id' => 'gwt-main-menu',
'class' => 'hidenav',
'role' => 'menu',
),
'heading' => array(
'text' => t('Main menu'),
'level' => 'h2',
'class' => array('element-invisible'),
),
));
What I expect are
- The main menu items must be displayed on one-row only.
- The main menu item Services must be displayed like a drop-down menu and will show its sub menu items (ie. the Mobile and Cash menu items) only when user moves mouse to it.
In other words, it must be something like this
<ul role="menu" class="hide nav" id="gwt-main-menu">
<li class="dropdown active" id="mnu-shopping">
<a target="_self" href="/shopping/catalog">Shopping</a>
</li>
<li class="dropdown" id="mnu-service">
<a target="_self" href="service">Services <b class="caret"></b></a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu " role="menu">
<li id="mnu-service-airtime">
<a target="_self" href="/service/mobile">Mobile</a>
</li>
<li id="mnu-service-cashadv">
<a target="_self" href="/service/cashadv">Cash</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
However, when testing, I saw the main menu items are listed vertically in many rows (in this case 2 rows). Not only that, the main menu item Services does not display like a dropdown menu. When I viewed source, this is what I got.
Can someone please tell me what do I need to do to achieve the expectations above? I searched on the Internet but the posts I found don't help me at all. Although they all agree that I should override the functions in the file template.php, but they don't give me enough instructions of what I need to do or how I start. I'm new in themeing drupal 7. Please help! Thanks.
Comments
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why printing the menu manually? You can enable the menu block in a region. see: administer -> blocks
According to the fusion project page:
You don't mention selecting the "Expanded" setting.
VM are we multi-threading
VM are we multi-threading topics now?
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I'm not sure what you are asking me.
I saw another thread that has
I saw another thread that has the exact same topic from the exact same person
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ok so what exactly is your point? That i missed a duplicate post? if so; it happens.
No.. *sigh* You know what
No.. *sigh* You know what just forget it.. Focus on helping people... Sorry for distracting your work.
sorry yesterday the web page
sorry yesterday the web page was freezing and kept throwing the error message 502 (ie. "bad gateway") to my face, so I pressed the F5 many times. May be that's why there are many duplicate posts. If you are admin, please delete other duplicate posts for me. Thanks.
This is the requirement for
This is the requirement for the project of my company. Apparently they don't want to enable and/or format the main menu through Structure > Menus or Structure > Blocks. They want the menu displays automatically when the page is loaded. By the way, Superfish is not what they want. They only trust fusion and that's that. I have to build the whole theme from fusion_starter. This is the guideline that they expect me to follow.... https://drupal.org/node/629454
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That's an odd explanation of a requirement as blocks are loaded when the page is loaded.
There are no drop down menus in drupal by default. Fusion uses superfish for that feature as stated on the project page for the theme in use. That's what fusion provides. Else you can write your own custom module.
My company indeed require me
My company indeed require me to write some custom code in order to display the main menu and all of its items (even child nodes). This is my current code in the file template.php. Would you please help me how to get each menu's child items and display them when user hovers mouse to it?
By the way, do you know how to add a unique id in every menu item?
For example:
Shopping ----> id: mnu-shopping
Services ----> id: mnu-service
This's also a requirement for the project.
Thanks y'all.
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dropdowns = look at an already existing module for aid with code for implementation
unique id's = https://drupal.org/node/345624
Thanks. This works
Thanks. This works
ok now I've managed to get
ok now I've managed to get the menu to display horizontally in one line. Now I'm facing the 2nd issue. How can I get the list of the items of the menu Services and display them all when user move mouse to the menu Services?
This is not my place, really,
This is not my place, really, but I have to ask:
your company "only trusts fusion", but they trust the custom code of someone writing a drop-down as they learns how?
Superfish is an excellent module, written and then edited by potentially hundreds of people, and passing QA checks from tens of thousands.
It seems very odd to me that you are writing your own version of superfish by hand and they are OK with that, but they refuse to use superfish as a "trust" issue?
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yes you get that right. My
yes you get that right. My company doesn't really trust Superfish and want to build their own theme from scratch. That's why I have to write all these custom code. I hope you guys don't mind helping me. I'm not very good in theme development, to be honest. I only know how to download already-built themes and modules and use them. I've never built a whole theme from scratch like this before.
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you're essentially going to have to write the code on your own. The javascript for the dropdowns and the module to integrate the javascript with the menu items. Which is pretty silly considering there is already multiple modules in contrib that produce this feature.
fortunately they at least
fortunately they at least allow me to use the already-built js and css files from their previously-built system in jsp. That reduced about 10% of my workload. Otherwise my head would be exploded (*sigh*)
Anyway now my menu seems to display correctly as required, but I'm facing another issue. Please refer to my latest thread https://drupal.org/node/2087227. Thanks.
Some companies indeed demand
Some companies indeed demand more than just work performance. They are too extreme in loving creativity. They worship it. They reject using the already-built applications. They rarely use open source. They just want to build everything from scratch. That sounds silly, but true. (*sigh*)