[TYPO3-english] TMENU

[Stefano Kowalke]

Hi Michael,

> Can you provide a sample listing of URLs and what the menu HTML is to look
> like?

The URL its not the problem.

in a very common case you have pages in the pagetree which becomes the
1st menu level

root
  home
  products
  links


With TMENU you build the menu and it is possible to build also a submenu
from the childpages.

root
  home
    about us
    how you find us
  products
    item 1
    item 2
    item 3
  links
    our partners
    our friends

With the menu state NO/RO/ACT/CUR you could insert a custom css class
for each state. As result the activ item is hightlighted or something else.

The same behavior you want for the 2nd and 3rd level. If you navigate to
"about us", the menu item "home" should be hightlighted.
This is possible because T3 know (from the pid) the page "about us" is a
child element from "home".

My setup is different from this common. The pagetree looks like this:

root
  1991
    red
    blue
  1998
    red
    green
    yellow
  2000
    blue
    yellow
  menu
    home
    about yellow pages
    about red pages
    about green pages
    about blue pages

All the "red" pages are subpages from "about red pages".
If the user navigate to a red page the menu item "about red pages"
should be highlighted. This is not possible (out of the box) because
their is no relation between a red page in 1991 an the page "about red
pages".

For a other issue a create layout for the page settings. If the user
create a red page, he/she select the red layout. This was stored with
integer in the layout field in pages table.

The TS from Joey fetch the layout from the current page and define the
combination of layout and menu item for inserting the class.

lib.mainMenu.1.NO.allWrap.cObject = CASE
lib.mainMenu.1.NO.allWrap.cObject {
    key.dataWrap = L{TSFE:page|layout}P{field:uid}
    default = TEXT
    default.value = <li>|
    L1P1301 = TEXT
    L1P1301.value = <li class="current">|
    L2P1300 < .L1P1301
    L3P1295 < .L1P1301
    L4P1296 < .L1P1301
}


Hope i explain it well, otherwise ask again :-)

Regards,
Stefano