I want to know that can i change the navigation menu dynamically,i am having two tabs on the basis of which i want to render the navigation menu.How can it be done
Thanks in advance
For usability reasons, the global navigation generally shouldn't change. Users will expect to see the same options available to them and will get confused (and leave) if they aren't.
Could you explain the requirement more?
EDIT:
Usability issues aside, try adding all necessary items to the top nav, then use Javascript to toggle between tabs. If you don't want to change the navigation PHTML files to add IDs to them, you can use the existing classes to target which nav items to show and which to hide.
Since Magento stores cannot function without JS anyway, you should be pretty safe with that solution. Preferably, you can change the top nav's template (I believe app/design/frontend/base/default/template/page/template/links.phtml in 1.4) to use IDs for those LIs as well, in which case you can target those instead.
Thanks,
Joe
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I have a joomla site and would like to integrate some old unfinished webcomics to it, so I can pick them up where I stopped in a CMS that won't leave me in an absolute frothing rage (thanks, wordpress).
I've got some experience with Joomla and I believe it would be a pretty good platform for managing multiple comics... except for the small issue of horrid navigation between pages/articles. Joomla's integrated article navigation is a humble but passable start, but if you intend to use categories to organize chapters then getting from the end of one to the beginning of the next is... yeah. This is a pity, as Joomla's category and article management options are beautiful for archiving and presentation, and adding gantry 5 to it means a great deal of control over the reading experience. Basically, joomla has pretty much everything I want, except for the navigation.
Ideally, what I'd like to be able to accomplish for comic navigation in joomla is:
Clickable full-article-image leading to next article/page
Prev/next article buttons (already available)
Prev/next category buttons (do we have those?)
The latter two in a module I can choose where to publish (optional)
And this is it, basically. I understand that implementing the first could be very hard without some major template customization, in which case I'd be willing to insert the image as a link in the article body... but only if there was one single code I could use, like the one that generates the next category article button. Because I'm not willing to create hundreds of menu items to generate links page-by-page.
So is any of this doable?
This is a quick answer but too much for a comment. I'm assuming since you are on SO that you don't mind coding (as opposed to just configuring).
I think you need to do two things. First you need to create a pagination.php for your template. This will let you really super control what the pagination looks like. You can have images, special css and js, whatever you want. You can also add the "last" and "first" options.
I think you need to make a new plugin to replace the core pagenavigation plugin and that also generates the previous/next category links. (Or I guess you could make one just to do categorynavigation depending on what you want.) HOWEVER, it seems to me that there is data on the sibling links that is already being generated in the content category model so you might be able to use that. (Check the code; I think there was never a UI for it, but it is there. Even if it isn't there, siblings are very easy to obtain in nested sets)
The other thing you can really think about if you go that route is changing the whole thing somewhat to use a module that gets the current ID and category ID from JInput. You might also be able to use JPagination. The important thing, however is that you make sure to do the caching the way the pagination that is there does it. In other words you really want to cache the whole list in the order you want so you are not running so many queries and slowing your site down. You may want to look at the categories and category modules to get some ideas about the queries to do.
Hope that gets you started, but it is definitely something you can do without too much trouble.
Like the topic say I want to overwrite/change the "Menu Manager: Edit Menu item" layout. To illustrate my question:
In the picture whiche is shown I want to change the labels: Layout, Option, Integration.... and add some other options to it. How can I do it? Or is this even possible?
In order to change the text, simply use language overrides, google is your friend.
In order to add functionality, let's first of all explain what we're talking about to ensure we're on the same page.
Joomla components have views which can have one or more layouts, i.e.
/components/com_content/views/category/tmpl/ contains two layouts, blog and default.
A layout can additionally contain an .xml manifest (in our case, blog.xml and default.xml) allowing us to create a menu item for the specific view/layout combination. The .xml file contains the parameters that the user will set, you can add your own as well.
When you want to change Joomla, usually there is a way to do so without touching the core, which would be pretty bad, as any Joomla! updates would break your work.
For the view layouts a special feature called template override was developed, which allows you to create an alternative to the view layout in a safe place (under your template folder, in this case your admin template), and this is the most elegant and effective way to achieve your result.
Beware though, you are just creating a layout, most likely you will want to add functionality, if it's complex you might be better off creating a dedicated component to keep the code clean. Or you can just put all the logic in your view, query the database from there. But in this latter case, get paid, and run away. Never answer the phone to the customer again.
A final alternative is to write a system plugin that will manipulate the page markup after it was generated in the event onAfterRender(). This is a simple and good approach if you only want to add a button or make minor changes, but if you do anything more than that, see the above advise about running away.
I have several pages on my blog that are quite specific and I know exactly what links I would like to appear on the sidebar of each page.
The only way I know how to control sidebar content is to designate certain asides to appear with certain layouts.
In my case, these pages do not each need a unique layout (per-se), they just need a different set of asides. So I am reluctant to create a separate layout for each page just so I can control the asides with more precision.
You are correct, you'll need a new layout in which you can specify specific page_asides. There's a good example of the customizations you'll need to make here: New Plain Page Layout for Octopress
I have a custom attribute, that is a drop down option.
There are several options to chose from, approx 100
What I'm looking to do, is rather have a long list of these options in the layered navigation, is to possibly have them grouped by letter.
such as A-G, H-L etc
Is this possible to do? Has anyone done this before?
I'm using Magento v1.6.1
Thanks
You can do all this in your own layered navigation template code:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/5500/
Although that is a very old post, the code works fine in recent Magento versions. You'll have to roll your sleeves up and write your own loop to put things into your groups but the above approach should get you started.
Hi I just want to know that how can i add Subccategories in the Navigation menus without making the parent category to show up there Any Ideas???
thanks in advance
This will take quite a bit of surgery to make this happen in a programatic fashion. You'll need to override the Mage_Catalog_Block_Navigation::_renderCategoryMenuItemHtml() method.
Alternatively, you might be able to hide the parent categories using your skin's CSS? The ul#nav li elements have quite specific class and id values that should allow you to show or hide them. However I suspect given the complexity of the fly-out nav, you may find it more efficient to rewrite the PHP. It probably comes down to where your proficiency lies.
HTH,
JD