Re: [Nucleus-devel] Small tasks

[David M. <dmu...@ni...>]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 dat...@us... wrote:

> Themes:
> 	Anyone want to try writing a theme?  It would be nice to have one
> other than Testing, although it wouldn't be necessary.

As I was working on a theme, I noticed that the main menu field in the
Database had HTML code with it.  Basically, the <li><a href=.... for the
main menu entries are all hardcoded into the database.

That is fine and is how PHPNuke is design too.  However, I was wanting a
theme with the menu content at the top in a straight line, rather than in
a box down the side.  By having the HTML code embedded in the database
field entry, doesn't that make the code less flexible?  Would it be better
to have entries in the database such as:

Menu_label = 'Home'
URL = '/'

Menu label = 'Links'
URL = '/links.php'

etc.

That way, all of the HTML coding could be put into templates. Right now it
is a simple thing to pull out the main_menu 'code' and put within
<td></td> tags.  By leaving it this way, it means we will always be
limited to having the main menu listed 'down' the page.  I guess I could
take out all of the <li> tags and that should cause it to be listed
across, but I still wonder if removing the HTML from the database would be
a good long-term idea.

Any thoughts?

peace,

Dave.


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