isSiblingSelected?
13 posts by 3 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: July 20, 2011 (RSS)
By Perchpole - June 30, 2011
Dave -
Just a thought...
Seeing as we have the entire family, could we not join them all together...
_isParentSelected
_isChildSelected
_isSiblingSelected
---------------------------------
=_isFamilySelected
...or is that a step too far?!
:0)
Perch
Just a thought...
Seeing as we have the entire family, could we not join them all together...
_isParentSelected
_isChildSelected
_isSiblingSelected
---------------------------------
=_isFamilySelected
...or is that a step too far?!
:0)
Perch
By Mikey - July 1, 2011
Perch,
I'm assuming this code goes in your page head:
Do you mind provide some code showing how you build your categories in the body of your webpage. I'm struggling with it.
Thanks Zick
I'm assuming this code goes in your page head:
<?php
$subMenuLinks = "";
foreach ($categoryRecords as $menuCategory) {
if ($menuCategory['_isSelected'] || $menuCategory['_isParentSelected'] || $menuCategory['_isChildSelected']) {
$subMenuLinks[] = $menuCategory;
}
}
?>Do you mind provide some code showing how you build your categories in the body of your webpage. I'm struggling with it.
Thanks Zick
Hi, Zick -
I'm currently building a site for a large and long-established charity. As such, their "About Us" section contains upwards of 30 different pages across various sub-sections. I wanted to introduce a localised sub-section menu which would enable readers to move around the related pages.
The category tree looks something like this:
[pre]Home
Articles
News
About Us
Our History
Page2
Page3
Page4
Our Founder
Page2
Page3
Page4
Etc...
[/pre]
So, in our example, if a reader was on the "Our History" page, I wanted to display a small menu showing just those links related to that sub-section:
[pre]Our History
Page2
Page3
Page4[/pre]
Achieving this (with simple code) using the current filters was proving difficult. The _isAncestorSelected or _isDecendantSelected snippets returned too many links - often the entire branch of the ancestory tree.
With Dave's updates all I need is this:<?php
$subMenuLinks = "";
foreach ($categoryRecords as $menuCategory) {
if ($menuCategory['_isSelected'] || $menuCategory['_isParentSelected'] || $menuCategory['_isChildSelected']) {
$subMenuLinks[] = $menuCategory;
}
}
?>
This pulls out only those links which are directly related to each category in the sub-section.
Works a treat!
:0)
Perch
Re: [zick] isSiblingSelected?
By Perchpole - July 20, 2011
Hi, Zick
Sorry for not responding sooner but I've been away...
In answer to your question, I have used the code above as follows:
I insert this into the page where I want to create the pagination menu.
Note the 'switch' at the top of the code to turn the menu on and off...
This is a simple checkbox.
The code then scans each of the categories to see if it matches the _sibbling/_parent/_child criteria.
If there's a hit, the category is added to the $subMenuLinks array.
This is then used to create the foreach loop that defines the menu.
Does that help?
:0)
Perch
Sorry for not responding sooner but I've been away...
In answer to your question, I have used the code above as follows:
<?php if($selectedCategory['paginate']): ?>
<?php
$subMenuLinks = "";
foreach ($categoryRecords as $subMenuCategory) {
if ($subMenuCategory['_isSelected'] || $subMenuCategory['_isParentSelected'] || $subMenuCategory['_isChildSelected'] || ($subMenuCategory['_isSiblingSelected'] && !$subMenuCategory['_hasChild'])) {
$subMenuLinks[] = $subMenuCategory;
}
}
?>
<ul>
<?php foreach ($subMenuLinks as $menuLink): ?>
<?php if($menuLink['_isSelected']): ?>
<li><b><a href = "./index.php?cat=<?php echo $menuLink['num'] ?>"><?php echo $menuLink['title'] ?></a></b></li>
<?php else: ?>
<li><a href = "./index.php?cat=<?php echo $menuLink['num'] ?>"><?php echo $menuLink['title'] ?></a></li>
<?php endif ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
</ul>
<?php endif ?>I insert this into the page where I want to create the pagination menu.
Note the 'switch' at the top of the code to turn the menu on and off...
<?php if($selectedCategory['paginate']): ?>This is a simple checkbox.
The code then scans each of the categories to see if it matches the _sibbling/_parent/_child criteria.
If there's a hit, the category is added to the $subMenuLinks array.
This is then used to create the foreach loop that defines the menu.
Does that help?
:0)
Perch