Displaying content in several columns

[marco]

Hi Marco, saw your site, great and well-done!
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Hmmm... I do not have a site on the web ... must be another Marco...

[tommi]

No, I mean the "multimediakeller" page.

[tommi]

..OK now I got confused ;o)
Anyhow, I just wanted to know how you solved your request with showing a horizontal bar and changing left /right side menues depending on the top nav selections.

[marco]

..OK now I got confused ;o)
Anyhow, I just wanted to know how you solved your request with showing a horizontal bar and changing left /right side menues depending on the top nav selections.

Good question, I'd also like to know how to do this.
Do post the solution if you find one.

[ionrock]

Have you looked at spirous patch? You can check it out at

http://ionrock.umemusic.com/index.php?develphpwcms

It lets you pick where you want a content type you add to an article goes in the layout. That is what you were thinking of right?

[marco]

Have you looked at spirous patch? You can check it out at

http://ionrock.umemusic.com/index.php?develphpwcms

It lets you pick where you want a content type you add to an article goes in the layout. That is what you were thinking of right?

No, I have not checked it out yet, it may be indeed what I was looking for:

1) the ability to place content - the entire content, if that is what I chose, in any column, not just the center column; I think the spirous hack can do this

2) the ability to take a subset from the content tree, and place THAT subset in a column, other than where most of the main content goes, such as in a sidebar (and I don't want to use php includes for that); I am not sure if the spirou hack can do it but it sounds like yes.

For instance, if I have a site section about product reviews (corresponding to a top site-level navbar) - and this is just one section of my site, then I want the main navigation, say at the top, to point to the template that brings up the "product reviews" page.

The reviews would be the main content for this section, and it would be displayed, say in the center column. I would then want to navigate through the various reviews using a menu in a side bar, say the right column, and this menu would go through certain sublevels of my "Product Reviews".

At the same time, I would want to have in the left column things like "related sites", "related reviews", or "related articles". These could be stored still under the "Product Reviews" entry in my content hierarchy, perhaps under their own branches.

[tommi]

Yes, it is not displaying the content, but a sub-structure of the menu tree
that I want to show in the left block.
My understanding was: Using the dynamic versions of {NAV_TOP_LIST:x}
and {NAV_TABLE_CURRENT:x}.
But: I dont know how to use the parameters
f.e. {NAV_TOP_LIST:5:} shows only "5" on screen.
HAve a nice day, tommi

[tyr]

tommi, see post http://www.phpwcms.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=977 for more information.

Here's a breakdown of {NAV_TOP_LIST:5:} as I understand it:

• {NAV_TOP_LIST -- calls for a horizontal nav bar

• :5 -- indicates you want the index/first/home tab to be labled as "5"

• :} -- indicates you want to use the default tabbed CSS style rules for the look-and-feel of your nav bar

Here's what a test case looks like in my system using the replacement tag {NAV_TOP_LIST:5:}. Note, the straural levels must be visable and public for them to appear in the tabs. Hidden levels don't show.

[tommi]

Hello tyr, thanks, got it!
So what I got was right, the first "index" in {NAV_TOP_LIST:5:} just labels my home, here "5".
But it doesn'T solve my main problem:
How can I display the first level of menu structure on the horizontal nav bar,
then the second structure level in the left block? And more: the left menu should be different for each chosen item of the horizontal nav bar.

Have a good time,
tommi

[tommi]

Hi tyr, thanks again, your explanations alwas are great!
Just an example what I mean:
http://rondo.webverbund.de
Oliver posted the link some months ago, that's ehat I need, but dont get it.
Ciao; tommi

[arkon]

i would need exactly the same feature too:

- Level 1 categories are displayed as a horizontal menu bar in the header
- When an entry is clicked in this top-level menu, its sub-categories are displayed as another horizontal menu underneath the main menu
when I select a submenu entry, then the subsubcategories for this submenu are displayed in the right block.
- the submenu and the subsubmenu should stay if clicked

-----------------------------------------------------------
menu 1 ¦ menu 2 ¦ menu 3
-----------------------------------------------------------
submenu 1.1 ¦ submenu 1.2 ¦ submenu 1.3
-----------------------------------------------------------
contentblock.............................¦subsubmenu 1.1.1
...............................................¦subsubmenu 1.1.2
...............................................¦subsubmenu 1.1.3
------------------------------------------------------------

i have no idea how to solve this problem, the code is pretty much nested (should not be a critic, i love phpwcms, but it's coded to difficult for me).
another solution would be a sortable table containing all articles in a selected category.

any solutions?

noel

[tommi]

Hi, hope this could help in this context.
I created a small tutorial on it.
http://www.phpwcms.de/forum/viewtopic.p ... ight=tommi

Nice afternoon, tommi

[tommi]

Arkon, I solved it: See the other topic by "tommmi".
Cheers, Tommi

i would need exactly the same feature too:

- Level 1 categories are displayed as a horizontal menu bar in the header
- When an entry is clicked in this top-level menu, its sub-categories are displayed as another horizontal menu underneath the main menu
when I select a submenu entry, then the subsubcategories for this submenu are displayed in the right block.
- the submenu and the subsubmenu should stay if clicked

-----------------------------------------------------------
menu 1 ¦ menu 2 ¦ menu 3
-----------------------------------------------------------
submenu 1.1 ¦ submenu 1.2 ¦ submenu 1.3
-----------------------------------------------------------
contentblock.............................¦subsubmenu 1.1.1
...............................................¦subsubmenu 1.1.2
...............................................¦subsubmenu 1.1.3
------------------------------------------------------------

i have no idea how to solve this problem, the code is pretty much nested (should not be a critic, i love phpwcms, but it's coded to difficult for me).
another solution would be a sortable table containing all articles in a selected category.

any solutions?

noel

[arkon]

thanx. almost the right solution. the problem is just that it is not dynamic because you have to fix the menu at a specific ID.
see also http://www.phpwcms.de/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=

[tommi]

Yes, thats what the problem is.
Not very flexible. Maybe someone can help us here in the forum?