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Tree-menu Block for PHP-Nuke |
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chris
writes "Hello nukers,
have you felt the need for a flexible menu block, perhaps
as a replacement of the Modules block? Then the newly
released Treemenu Block may be right for you.
Click on the read more link for more details.
A commonly asked question in PHPNuke forums is if there exists
some Module block out there that displays a dynamic view of the
available modules. The webmaster needs a functionality that will
allow for the display of only certain module links, depending on,
say, the interests, access level, or preferences of the viewer.
What is needed is a module block that displays some links
(to modules, or generally, to pages) when a certain condition
is met (say, when Category A was previously chosen) and some
other ones when a different condition is true
(e.g. when Category B was chosen).
To met these requirements, I have adapted the well-known
Treemenu concept to a PHP-Nuke Block. I have created a PHP-Nuke
block containing a Treemenu. It will look like this:
http://www.karakas-online.de/myTreemenu/images/treemenu.png
When the user clicks on an item like "Links",
the sub-tree under this item is unfolded:
http://www.karakas-online.de/myTreemenu/images/treemenu1.png
and so on.
Tree-menu is a PHP class created by Bjorge Dijkstra and
adapted by Denny Shimkoski. I have fixed some bugs in the
version of the latter and incorporated it in a PHPNuke Block.
There are two ways you can use the Tree-menu class - I use
the one that takes as input a simple text file and creates a
tree menu, in a style that most users are familiar with
from a graphical file manager.
And of course, you may tweak it very easily to display multiple
Tree-menus, or dynamic ones using a criterion of your choice.
Thus, you can display one Tree-menu when the user chose, say,
Category A, and a different one for Category B. See
http://www.karakas-online.de/myTreemenu/refinements.html#AEN450
You control the tree structure of your menu from a simple text
file, see
http://www.karakas-online.de/myTreemenu/what-is-treemenu.html#INPUT-FILE-METHOD
Of course, this is only a quick and easy solution. If your menu
has to change very often, you will need some kind of database
support here. But for a lot of purposes this solution is perfectly
acceptable.
You can get Treemenu Block at
http://www.karakas-online.de/phpnuke/block-Treemenu.tgz
Just extract it in the blocks directory and activate it.
It comes with a sample sitemap text file. But you should also read
the detailed documentation at
http://www.karakas-online.de/myTreemenu/t1.html
which may be read online, or downloaded in various formats
(HTML, PDF, PS, RTF, TXT...) from
http://www.karakas-online.de/myTreemenu/introduction.html#FORMATS
Let me just add a big Thank You to Bjorge Dijkstra and
Denny Shimkoski for creating and improving the Treemenu PHP class,
which is used in this PHPNuke block.
Regards
Chris"
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Posted on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 @ 9:32 AM CST by ChatServ |
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