Features / Usability

Posted by Gary 23 Aug 2005 21:52 GMT-0000 posts: 113

I have implemented this on one of my sites but did not push back to the main source. The reason is that there are a couple different ways to do it, and I chose one that I don't think others would necessarily agree with. My technique was to allow the module list get created as normal, but right before displaying, I cull the list based on the category. If the module is associated with a category, then if the page is associated with the same category, display it. Otherwise remove it from the list. If the module is not associated with a category, keep in the list.

To do this I put a call in the ticketlib (the only place I could find that all pages go thru after the module list is created and the categories are known). This is clearly a hack, but I couldn't find another place to change without a big foot print. If you are interested in the changes, I can supply them.

If people think that this is an acceptable solution, I can update. But I didn't think people would like the ticketlib hack.

gg

Posted by Gary 27 Aug 2005 19:55 GMT-0000 posts: 113

> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to display a module within a specific category? For example, I've manually created a PHPLayers menu module matching the category structure. (I hadn't seen the automatic category menu creation module, but apparently it's not ready for production use yet, anyway.) For ease of navigation, I'd like to include this module in the left column, but only when the user is actually in that category. Is there a way to do that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> edalton

If you give me an email address to send the files, I will. The following files were touched

lib/categories/categlib.php
lib/tikiticketlib.php
tiki-admin_categories.php
templates/tiki-admin_categories.tpl

The first two were to provide the php code, the last two were to expose module to category assignments.

I don't have a patch file, but I do have a diff -Naurb that will probably do as well.

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