joejac
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| Posted: 02/20/2012, 1:08 PM |
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Hello icp4all,
Long time ago I realized that it is a terrible headache when trying to customize a menu after it has being generated by the menu builder, and even worst if Artisteer is used.
So I decided to forget those and I did the following Dynamic Database driven PHP/MySQL menu for my CCS projects. With the styles it can be customized either vertical or horizontal drop down menu:
1.- To generate a grid with the grid builder for the menu, it will get someting like this:
in your HTML code of your menu page:
<div id="menu">
{category_name}
</div>
2.- In the before show event of category_name
global $locale;
global $CCSLocales;
$locale = CCGetParam("locale","es");
global $Header;
global $DBcmsascp1;
$TempStr ="";
$MenuLevel ="topmenu";
$MenuUl = display_children(1,1,$TempStr,$MenuLevel,$locale);
$Header->category_name->SetValue($MenuUl);
//Header is my menu page and DBcmsascp1 is my connection.
3.- In the begining of your menu page, in my case Header_event.php, copy the following function:
<?php
// //Events @1-F81417CB
function display_children($parent, $level, $TempStr, $MenuLevel, $locale) {
$DB = new clsDBcmsascp1();
$TempStr = "<ul class = '".$MenuLevel."'>";
$SQL = "SELECT a.category_no, a.category_name, a.category_enmenu, a.category_orden, Deriv1.Count FROM `".$locale."_categories` a LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT parent_category_no, COUNT(*) AS Count FROM `".$locale."_categories` GROUP BY parent_category_no) Deriv1 ON a.category_no = Deriv1.parent_category_no WHERE a.parent_category_no=" . $parent . " AND a.category_enmenu = 1 ORDER BY a.parent_category_no ASC, a.category_orden ASC, a.category_name ASC";
$DB->query($SQL);
while ($DB->next_record()) {
$CatNO = $DB->f(category_no);
$Name = $DB->f(category_name);
$Cuenta = $DB->f(Count);
$ParentNO = $DB->f(parent_category_no);
if ($Cuenta > 0) {
$TempStr .= "<li><a href='index.php?category_no=" . $CatNO . "&locale=".$locale."' onclick='Javascript:return false;'>" . $Name . "</a>";
$MenuLevel ="submenu";
$TempStr .= display_children($CatNO, $level + 1, $TempStr, $MenuLevel, $locale);
$TempStr .= "</li>";
} elseif ($Cuenta==0) {
$TempStr .= "<li><a href='index.php?category_no=" . $CatNO . "&locale=".$locale."'>" . $Name . "</a></li>";
} else;
}
$TempStr .= "</ul>";
$DB->close();
return $TempStr;
}
Please adjust the SELECT with the fields that you need.
4.- The style for the menu:
* { padding:0px; margin:0px; }
body { font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12px; color:#333333; }
#menu { position:relative; z-index:10000; margin:0 0 0 -1px; width:1028px; height: 38px;}
#menu li {float:left;width:171px; height: 38px; margin:0; padding:0; text-align:center;}
#menu li a {text-decoration:none; margin:0}
#menu li a, #menu li a:visited {display:block; width:170px; height:37px; background:transparent url(../es/sitio/MenuCustomer.jpg) left top; text-indent:0px; color:#6d8bb0; text-decoration:none; font:italic normal bold 14px/34px verdana; padding: 0;}
#menu li a:hover {background-position:left center; color:#fff;}
#menu li a#selected, #menu li a#selected:hover {background-position:left bottom; line-height:34px; cursor:default; color:#000;}
.topmenu {list-style-type:none; margin:0; padding:0; position:relative;}
.submenu {z-index:100000; list-style-type:none; position:relative; left:-10000px;}
.topmenu li:hover > ul {left:100%; margin-top:-30px; margin-left:-1px; padding-left:0px;}
Please be aware that the image: MenuCustomer.jpg has all the 3 images of the 3 states for the menu buttons, the styles shift the image, I only use link and hover.
Please change: clsDBcmsascp1 for your connection.
I took the idea from here:
http://wizardinternetsolutions.com/web-database-design/...menu-php-mysql/
Hope this can help.
Best regards
joejac
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