[TYPO3-english] HMENU as if on other page

[David Bruchmann]

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Von:        Tyler Kraft <tyler.kraft at netefficiency.co.uk>
Gesendet:   Montag, 20. Juli 2009 14:28:43
An:         typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de
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Betreff:    Re: [TYPO3-english] HMENU as if on other page
> Hi David,
> 
> No it's the same idea as always - it's back pid (at the bottom of the 
> rootline, not the top)
> 
> Forgive me if this seems ridiculous but I still don't think we're 
> talking about the same thing here. I don't want to hide the last menu 
> point/item at all - in some cases it's not even the same menu at all. I 
> want to generate a menu that is not at all where the current page is, 
> but with a make believe page.
> 
> If I have this page tree structure in the BE
> 
> home
> 	|- sub a
> 	|	|- sub aa
> 	|		|-sub aaa
> 	|			|-sub aaa
> 	|-sub b
> 	|	|-sub bb
> 	|
> 	|-sub c
> 	|	|- sub cc
> 	|		|-sub ccc
> 	|-sub d
> 
> I need to generate the menu as if I was on page sub cc or page sub bbb 
> (as defined with &backpid=XX) when I'm actually on page sub d (and the 
> page structure is more complicated than just this simple example.) So my 
> problem is that I don't really know where the start of the menu is ever 
> going to be, and I don't know what the parent page is going to be, and I 
> don't know how deep the menu will ever be. All I know is the page that I 
> came from and nothing more. So from my point of view I have to build the 
> menu as if in reverse, with no directions so to speak - just starting at 
> the final destination ;-)
> 

Referring the menu in TS: it's no problem to create a menu like you were 
on any page with the HMENU-parameter special=directory

It's just a matter of defining the parameters that can be requested by 
conditions. Furthermore the ItemStates have to be defined. If they shall 
reflect other states than the usual case perhaps a php-function has to 
override them.

Best regards
David