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Hi there,
A. One of the current practice I have when building a
template is to call repeating navigation using php includes (or ssi
if there's no php support, shame on those host by the way).
B. Why do that man?
A. Simple. Navigation need to be repeated in every page.
B. You could have it in your template!
A. How would my user edit it then?
B. You could give it an editable region!
A. Nope. Ya stupid, I don't want my poor users go through
every single page to edit menus!
B. so inlcude?
A. yes. A single list <ul><li>My link
one</li><li>My link 1</li>...<li>My link
10</li></ul> is an easy thing to edit in AC.
More than that you can create a site map by calling all your
includes in a single page. Doing that you can also place links on
every menus and submenus for your users to edit.
B. Quite smart.
A. Indeed.
A. But when it comes to add a little piece of php to your
list tag <li> (see below), to show where internet users are
in the website for exemple. You use a Template parameter that users
can fill to name of the section (in the main menu, you can create
another parameter for a submenu) where they publish their page.
quote:
<!-- TemplateParam name="section" type="text"
value="&quot;company&quot;" -->
then you have this in your page:
quote:
<?php $section=@@(section)@@; ?>
and then you have this in your php menu:
quote:
<li<?php if ($section=="company") echo "
class=\"mmhide_listitemon\""; ?>><a
href="/p/en/company/index.php">Company
Profile</a></li>
where the CSS class say:
quote:
.mmhide_listitemon { background-color:
highlightthismenuitemwithmyfavoritecolorplease; }
B. Quite smart. But your Contribute users are only allowed to
edit the menu by adding list item containing links and not
containing php ;P
A. That's the problem dude. So the idea is this:
Who the hell is smarter than us, read this post, and gives us a
nicer solution?
A. B. Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi there,
A. One of the current practice I have when building a
template is to call repeating navigation using php includes (or ssi
if there's no php support, shame on those host by the way).
B. Why do that man?
A. Simple. Navigation need to be repeated in every page.
B. You could have it in your template!
A. How would my user edit it then?
B. You could give it an editable region!
A. Nope. Ya stupid, I don't want my poor users go through
every single page to edit menus!
B. so inlcude?
A. yes. A single list <ul><li>My link
one</li><li>My link 1</li>...<li>My link
10</li></ul> is an easy thing to edit in AC.
More than that you can create a site map by calling all your
includes in a single page. Doing that you can also place links on
every menus and submenus for your users to edit.
B. Quite smart.
A. Indeed.
A. But when it comes to add a little piece of php to your
list tag <li> (see below), to show where internet users are
in the website for exemple. You use a Template parameter that users
can fill to name of the section (in the main menu, you can create
another parameter for a submenu) where they publish their page.
quote:
<!-- TemplateParam name="section" type="text"
value="&quot;company&quot;" -->
then you have this in your page:
quote:
<?php $section=@@(section)@@; ?>
and then you have this in your php menu:
quote:
<li<?php if ($section=="company") echo "
class=\"mmhide_listitemon\""; ?>><a
href="/p/en/company/index.php">Company
Profile</a></li>
where the CSS class say:
quote:
.mmhide_listitemon { background-color:
highlightthismenuitemwithmyfavoritecolorplease; }
B. Quite smart. But your Contribute users are only allowed to
edit the menu by adding list item containing links and not
containing php ;P
A. That's the problem dude. So the idea is this:
Who the hell is smarter than us, read this post, and gives us a
nicer solution?
A. B. Thanks!