Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] menus and categories

[Ryan R. <to...@gm...>]

Ton,

What you describe is something I've been looking at in a more general
case:  Triggering (for lack of a better term).  Basically, be able to
display a block (menu, login, other) when a certain set of criteria
are met.  Maybe when a certain module is being used, or simply on a
page-by-page/article-by-article basis.  While I've been deep in the
bowels of server building for the last few months, I haven't been able
to keep up with what has been going on in the IRC channel, but at one
time there was a little discussion regarding this.  Just not sure
whether the dev team followed up on it any.

So while I can't offer you any direct suggestions, I did want to let
you know that you're not alone in wanting that functionality.

Ryan


On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:08:58 +0200, Ton Oosterhoff
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> I am almost finished extending the Menuman module with category capabilit=
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> The last obstacle is the following.=20
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> I want to show a menu if the menu's category equals the category of one o=
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> the other modules that are displayed. So I have to detect which categorie=
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> are currently displayed.=20
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> The problem is how to code this in PHP.=20
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> I thought the following method was the shortest:=20
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> - loop through mod_fatcat_elements;=20
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> - extract module_id, module_title and cat_id;=20
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> - check if module title is displayed with  " if (isset($_REQUEST['module'=
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> So far so good, now I know if a module is displayed, but how can I check
> that it is displayed with module_id?=20
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> For Pagemaster this would be with $_REQUEST['PAGE_id'], but is there some
> generic expression I can use ?=20
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> Something like =E2=80=A6. && $_REQUEST['module_id']=3D=3Dmodule_id?=20
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> Some suggestions?=20
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> Or maybe an other approach?=20
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> Thx in advance.=20
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> Ton Oosterhoff.=20
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