Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] PHP Layers Menu System

[mose <mo...@mo...>]

le Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 03:16:14PM -0300 par Luis Argerich :
> I think it is a very interesting option for menus and our menu creation
> tools if you investigate let me know what you think Mose!


*** phplayers :

I tried an integration in my local tiki.

Damn it works, it don't look like slowing the page display, I think we
should try it as an alternative way to represent menus or tree-lists.

I think that we could include phplayers as a module, like for smarty
and adodb, so it can be updated separately, and used, with a wrapper
if needed, by tiki without touching the original code. Exactly like
for smarty.

Then we need a feature $features_phplayers set globally because some
css and js are set in the header, and libs have to be loaded only if
that feature is used.

I used a duplicate of lib/smarty_tiki/functions.menu.php for my tests, 
but that lib would deserve a special work for setting up options, and 
such thing is very useful when useable from smarty. 

It takes as input a template file and a variable under a given format, 
it would be simple to make it used from anywhere. I can prepare
something that I can commit. I now just have to make the link with 
data input from tiki (building that variable with given format).


*** user menu

About the user menu creation, on another hand, I want to add in there
some more "styles" informations, and something I definately need : a
field that make possible to highlight the menu entry linking to current
page. But adding more options there would maybe require an admin panel
redesign for easier management.


*** other incoming enhancements

And, as we are talking about code that may move soon, I have 2 other
hints to spread around : I'm currently working with UNGI (a french 
internet company) on a tikiwiki for one of their client, a public 
interest organism in health area. They love our work and want that 
code they pay is contributed back, and they agree to find 
opportunities in development in order to make it more re-usable.
(.. damn it's good ! tikipeople, you should try to find such contracts
they can make us live)

Main changes imply trackers (more options, more choices on how things
are displayed), users and groups (adding them more configurable 
informations, like if you could build a user schema with tracker
tool), validation (validation of accounts, validation of change of a
tracker item or on a change on user/groups informations), handling
multiple users schemas (maybe I'll try to build a morphology
dependency beetween groups and user schemas, stealing some ideas 
from ldap concepts and cheating them).


*** btw

I split that long mail in part because long mails are often unread,
providing splits with headlines raises the chances a little.


cheers,
mose



> 
> Luis
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mose" <mo...@mo...>
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> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] PHP Layers Menu System
> 
> 
> > le Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 05:51:46PM -0500 par Marc Laporte :
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > How easy of difficult would it be to have this available for our menus?
> > > http://phplayersmenu.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > > Also, it would be nice to have a nice hierarchal menu generated from our
> > > category system.
> >
> > - and for structure, and for directory tree, and for lists, and ..
> > Well, it's LGPL, we can use it. If I was idle, I would try that
> > locally on tw.o so we can decide. hmm. maybe even if not idle.
> >
> > mose
> >
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