navigation = conditional nightmare

[gabrielcrowe]

i'm trying to get something similar to:

http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=23159

still... after god knows how many months, i return to this, and its still uber complex.

What i want, is this:

<div>
	<p>Level 1 section</p>
		<ul>
			<li>level 2 section</li>
			<li>level 2 section</li>
			<li>level 2 section</li>
		</ul>
	
	<p>Level 1 section</p>
		<ul>
			<li>level 2 section</li>
			<li>level 2 section</li>
			<li>level 2 section</li>
		</ul>
	
	<p>Level 1 section</p>
		<ul>
			<li>level 2 section</li>
			<li>level 2 section</li>
			<li>level 2 section</li>
		</ul>
</div>

from what i'v gathered, from various experiments, creating this kind of culled sitemap esque navigation is not possible. this is becasue the <ul> tags can never be correctly positioned.

<actinic:variable name="ListIndex" /> is useful in this sense, becasue it allows you to select the first and last items, wrapping an <ul> around them, but for items mid list, (such as the items on the second section <li>).

i'm ultra confused by this, can anyone shed some light? perhaps i'm missing something vital.

What i'd really like is perhaps a snippets callery, where very useful snippets for thigs like this are collected. to saze us all a lot of time when we have problems like this one. i'v been unwittingly boggling over this one for about 4 hours now.

<actinic:block if="fun%20%3d%3d%20true">	
time flies
</actinic:block>

[NormanRouxel]

There's another Variable - SectionLevel that is useful here. Store it in a temporary PHP variable and in your main loop compare the current value with the previous. If it's greater, you've just started a new sub-section. If it's the same, you're in another same level section. If it's smaller, you've just left a sub-section.

I use this in my NorList menu and it works fine.

[gabrielcrowe]

-=#Hero#=-

[NormanRouxel]

Here's another trick. If you're generating HTML it may be useful to leave off the < and > so you can see what's happening. Create a Site level True/False variable called Testing and use code like:

if (<actinic:variable name="Testing" encoding="perl" selectable="false"/>)
  {
  $o = '';
  $c = '';
  }
else
  {
  $o = '<';
  $c = '>';
  }
.
.
.
echo $o . 'ul' . $c;

[leehack]

Gabriel does this mean you have solved the hideously bad looking sitemap?

[gabrielcrowe]

<actinic:block php="true" >
        $lastlevel = 1;
</actinic:block>

<actinic:block type="EntireSectionList" >  
<actinic:block php="true" >
    $thislevel = "<actinic:variable name="SectionLevel" />";
    $thissectionname = "<actinic:variable name="SectionName" />";
    $thissectionpagename = "<actinic:variable name="SectionPageName" />";
    
    if ($thislevel == $lastlevel + 1)
    {
     echo "<ul>\n";
    }

    if ($thislevel == $lastlevel - 1)
    {
     echo "</ul>\n";
    }
    
    if ($thislevel == 2) 
    {
    echo "<li>".$thislevel."/".$lastlevel." - ".$thissectionname."</li>";
    }
    
    if ($thislevel == 1) 
    {
    echo "<p>".$thislevel."/".$lastlevel." - ".$thissectionname."</p>\n";
    }



    $lastlevel = "<actinic:variable name="SectionLevel" />";
    
</actinic:block> 
</actinic:block> 

this, seems to work, can anyone confirm?

i get:

<p>1/1 - Books</p>
<ul>
<li>2/1 - wefawefwe</li> 
<li>2/2 - triple test</li> 
<li>2/2 - double test</li> 
</ul>
<p>1/2 - Clothing</p>
<ul>
<li>2/1 - test</li> 
<li>2/2 - Shoes</li> 
</ul>
<p>1/2 - Homeware</p>
<p>1/1 - Computers</p>
<p>1/1 - Stationery</p>
<p>1/1 - Best Sellers</p>
<p>1/1 - New Products</p>

[nasal69]

Hi guys. I want to be able to just display one section (and it's subsections) as a navigation list. Is it possible in this way?

[Bruce]

I guess the threads above will be the best guide to be able to achieve what you are after.

Kind regards,

[nasal69]

Hi,

I managed to do it by changing the page file extensions to .php and just using a normal php include.