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HorizontalVerticalMenu

Description

This script provides additional markup for easy generation of multilevel horizontal and vertical menus. (This technique is also used with the advanced version of the DropDownSkin?. Advanced means that it provides special markup). I took the idea from here and here and just optimised it and changed it so it can be used with PmWiki.

Available Markup (see also examples)

(:hmenu:)

begins a horizontal menu. Available options are up (opens the menu upwards) and left (open menu to the left). These options can be combined, e.g (:hmenu up left:).

(:vmenu:)

begins a vertical menu. Same options as with hmenu available.

(:newmenu:)

needed for separation of main menu items (mainly when using hmenu)

(:emenu:)

begin expanded menu. Availbale options are up (no floating) and left (text is written left of the menu)

*

menuitem (same as bullet list)

* ----

separator line (should be placed after any submenues)

(:menuend:)

end the menu

Files and Installation

menus.zipΔ

Simply extract this ZIP file into the PmWiki directory and insert the following line into your config.php:

   include_once('cookbook/menus.php');

Now you can create menus whereever you want.

Examples

Horizontal menu:

 (:hmenu:)
 *Level 0
 (:newmenu:)
 *Level 0.1
 **Level 1
 ***Level 2
 **Level 1.1
 (:menuend:)

Vertical menu:

 (:vmenu:)
 *Level 0
 **Level 1
 ***Level 2
 **Level 1.1
 *Level 0.1
 (:menuend:)

Expanded menu:

 (:emenu:)
 *Level 0
 **Level 1
 ***Level 2
 **Level 1.1
 *Level 0.1
 (:menuend:)

See a live example here

Dynamically Generated with Pagelists

This makes a nice big menu of backlinks all the way up to the page that has a menu. Note the strangeness in it's construction...

My menu:

(:vmenu:)
(:pagelist link={$Name} fmt=#sb1:)
(:menuend:)

My pagelist template

[[#sb1]]
(:template defaults order=title:)
*[[{=$FullName}|{=$Titlespaced}]](:pagelist link={=$FullName} fmt=#sb2:)
[[#sb1end]]

[[#sb2]]
(:template defaults order=title:)
*[[{=$FullName}|{=$Titlespaced}]](:pagelist link={=$FullName} fmt=#sb3:)
[[#sb2end]]

[[#sb3]]
(:template defaults order=title:)
*[[{=$FullName}|{=$Titlespaced}]](:pagelist link={=$FullName} fmt=#sb4:)
[[#sb3end]]

[[#sb4]]
(:template defaults order=title:)
*[[{=$FullName}|{=$Titlespaced}]]
[[#sb4end]]

Limitations

• If you want to change the CSS file always use colored backrounds for menuitem, menutitle, otherwise the menu won't work correctly within IE.
• As IE also only recognizes :hover with links you need the csshover.htc file, which gives IE the ability to recognize. I included it into the ZIP file but you can get always the newest version here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned (whatever:hover). There migth occur a problem with this file with Win XP2. The server must deliver the mime-type text/x-component for .htc files.
• With the actual CSS file up to 5 levels are possible

Bugs

• not known

History

• 18-Feb-2005 minor design update Klonk
• 19-Feb-2005 improved compatibility with wikistyles Klonk
• 23-Feb-2005 fixed difference in display between IE and FireFox, added possibility to change the way the menu opens. Klonk
• 10-Mar-2005 major rewrite to remove new markup and use standard markup * (bullet list) instead Klonk
• 30-Sep-2005 updated to newest version of csshover.htc Klonk
• 20-Mar-2006 updated to newest version of csshover.htc (1.42) Klonk
• 28-Mar-2007 added (:emenu:) markup - Expanded menu, separator is now also possible within main menu (should not be used in main hmenu)
• 19-Jan-2008 bug fix... MikeShanley?
• 18-Oct-2015 changed markaup calls so no deprecated errors with PHP 5.5 occur, requires PmWiki > 2.2.58 Klonk

Contributors

Klonk Pm

Comments

See discussion at HorizontalVerticalMenu-Talk