History: MultiLevelMenus

This solution is heavily based on initial work by xia (Forum post).

Let's say we want to have a menu that's collapsed by default. Upon expanding it should be like this:

1. Open templates/tiki-admin_menu_options.tpl

Find:

<option value="o" {if $type eq 'o'}selected="selected"{/if}>{tr}option{/tr}</option>

Add below:

<option value="p" {if $type eq 'p'}selected="selected"{/if}>{tr}submenu1{/tr}</option>
<option value="q" {if $type eq 'q'}selected="selected"{/if}>{tr}submenu2{/tr}</option>

('p', 'q', 'submenu1', 'submenu2' can be any names you choose)

Save and close.

2. Open lib/smarty_tiki/function.phplayers.php

Find:

if ($cd["type"] == 'o' and $indented) {
				$output.= ".";

Add below:

} elseif ($cd["type"] == 'p') {
				$output.= "..";
} elseif ($cd["type"] == 'q') {
				$output.= "...";

Save and close.

3. Click on 'Admin' menu and then 'Features'. Tick 'PhpLayers Dynamic menus' and press 'Change preferences' button.

4. Admin -> Menus. Create a new menu of 'dynamic collapsed' type. Configure the menu to add menu items.

5. Admin -> Modules. Scroll down to 'Create new user module' section. Give it a name, title. The latest menu we just created should be selected for 'phpLayersMenus:' drop-down (not the regular menus dropdown). Click on 'use phplayermenu' and press 'create/edit'.

6. Assign the module to set it left or right at a desired order.

Top Menus

You can have multi-level top menus, too:

Edit templates/tiki-top_bar.tpl and add the following as the last line:

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{phplayers id=43 type=horiz}

...where 43 is the number of the menu you want to display (on siridhar's Tiki install, 43 happens to be the 'SubMenus demo' menu ID). Maybe one day Tiki will have configurable top and bottom menus 🙄.

If your prefered theme overrides templates/tiki-top_bar.tpl (with a local copy in templates/styles/XXX/) and doesn't support dynamic top menus by default, you could ask the theme designer to add the feature, or do it yourself (edit the loal copy in the same way, putting the phplayers line at the bottom of the file).

In lib/menubuilder/menulib.php find the following line (near line 125):

"s" => "section",

...and add the following two lines immediately after:

"t" => "subsection",
"u" => "subsubsection",

Next, rewrite the usort function near line 1662 of lib/tikilib/php, to correctly handle q and p types. (please let us know if you figure out how.)

Then figure out how to make top menus work. (ditto.)