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Re: How to make top menu sections without content and jump to the first child?

Sean — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:28:16 +1200

Hmm, one way I think you could achieve this would be to override the Link() method on your page-type. This means that for that particular $Link in the template loop for the menu there's nothing returned, thus you can do <% if Link %><a href="$Link">$MenuTitle</a><% else %><span>$MenuTitle</span><% end_if %> - or something similar.

Example:

<?php

class UnlinkedPage extends Page {

   function Link() {
      return false;
   }

}

class UnlinkedPage_Controller extends Page_Controller {

}

It's kind of a theory more than anything. I'm not sure if there'll be any side effects from a page not having a valid Link() method, but it's certainly worth a try I believe.

Sean

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Re: How to make top menu sections without content and jump to the first child?

LeeUmm — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:29:51 +1200

I'd like the same type of thing, except I don't need a link outputted from a certain parent page. I need just a blank <a> tag produced from a page in the sitetree, no redirects.

The reason being I am building a suckerfish navigation menu so I still need the <a> tag produced for the parent, so when a user hovers over it, the suckerfish menu is displayed listing the child pages.

Is this at all possible?

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Re: How to make top menu sections without content and jump to the first child?

cliersch — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:15:21 +1200

Thanx to all of you! Great, it works!
I haven't found the easy way to use just an other page type! Thats the possibility for my project.
And it's good to know php function for an other project!
Great community!

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Re: How to make top menu sections without content and jump to the first child?

SilverRay — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:44:47 +1200

Hi tiga,

Or see here:

http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=recipes:controllers

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Re: How to make top menu sections without content and jump to the first child?

Sean — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:43:27 +1200

So you'd change the page type in the CMS (using the behaviour tab) for the Products and Projects pages to a "Redirector page".

Then, you'd choose the first child from the dropdown once the page is changed to a redirector. This means that if anyone hits that given page, it'll redirect them to the page chosen in the dropdown.

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Re: How to make top menu sections without content and jump to the first child?

Sean — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:41:06 +1200

Redirector pages linking to the first child would be the way to do it, as grilldan said.

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Re: How to make top menu sections without content and jump to the first child?

cliersch — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:41:01 +1200

Ok - good idea! But how woud you realize it concretely?

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Re: How to make top menu sections without content and jump to the first child?

grilldan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:19:47 +1200

You could try making the Products and Project pages "Redirect Pages".

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Re: How to make top menu sections without content and jump to the first child?

cliersch — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:57:52 +1200

I try to explain my problem again, please someone my help me.
I need to build a menu with this structure

Home

Products
-Product 1
-Product 2

Projects
-Project 1
-Project 2

Contact

The Products an Projects items have no content. I would like to reach directly the Product 1 page when I klick on the Projects section.
Is there any possibility to build this model?

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How to make top menu sections without content and jump to the first child?

cliersch — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:03:25 +1200

I would like to have a navigation menu with two level. But there is no content on the top level pages, they are only sections for the structure. I would like to jump from the first level directly in each section to the first child item. How is it possible to realize it?

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