Direct Link to another Node in Menu

Saturday 26 April 2008 1:01:23 am

You have two easy solutions :
- you can create a content of Link type and call it News. The URL you would provide will be the Tennis URL.
- you can create a class called "Relation link" which will contain only a name and a relaion object. You create then a "Relation link" called News pointing on Tennis. You will have to do some template, but it's cleaner.

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Wednesday 30 April 2008 4:32:41 am

Hi,

Ok, I've not the required know how at the moment to get the solution :)
I've created a class "internal_shortcut":

Class: internal_shortcut
Attributes:
         - name [TEXT]
         - Object Relation [Object]

So if i'd like to create a menu shortcut, i'll just create an object instance of this class and link to the node object wich the user should be redirected to.

<b>My problem:</b>
Now I have no idea how to create the required functionality if a user clicks on one of this shortcuts? In the system there should be a PHP function like "header: location..." wich is assigned to objects of the type "internal shortcut".

I first tried to use template overrides, but thats logically the completely wrong way (the redirection should be done before any template is parsed).

So does anyone know, how to "inject" specific code for a class / object? Do i have to create an own extension for this requirements?!?

Hope anyone can give me a hint,
thanks a lot,
Mike

Wednesday 30 April 2008 2:33:04 pm

Hi Mike

I use a technique similar to that described by Maxime, where there is a specific content class (mine is called a Menu Llink) that contains the link & label information.

The second step is overriding the menu generating templates to check for this content type and use the "link" attribute for the href instead of the url_alias. This way the generated link points to the required location and not the node itself.

Cheers
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Friday 02 May 2008 2:44:33 am

Just another simple question:
How am i able to define the "default" template for objects of a content class? (for example objects of class type "internal link)?

In my override declaration I'm only able to define the override template an tell the system, what's the original template. But where is it defined!?

Thanks & bye,
Mike

Friday 02 May 2008 6:28:44 pm

Hi Mike

The content class I use consists of a url and ccheck box attribute. The url contains the link & title, the checkbox is to allow for the link to be opened in another window. I typically use these to splice custom module content into the main node tree.

To do what you have described you can simply use a related object datatype. This way if the URl/name of the object changes the menu will be updated accordingly.

With this said I would look into the IA of your site. I've always found that if node tree doesn't reflect the site/nav structure then problems tend to crop up.

cheers
Bruce

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Saturday 03 May 2008 12:49:47 pm

Ok, after diggin' around some hours in the attributes an sub-objects i found the right way. Here's the code for building an internal shortcut link with an own class-type (identifier: internal_shortcu):

{foreach $menuSubTopItems as $menuSubTopItemsIndex => $menuSubTopItemsMenu}
			<li>
				{* ************************************************** *}
				{* Check if this is a internal or a standard link *}
				{* ************************************************** *}
				{if eq($menuSubTopItemsMenu.object.content_class.identifier,'internal_shortcut')}
					<a href={$menuSubTopItemsMenu.object.data_map.link_to_object.content.main_node.url_alias|ezurl()}>{$menuSubTopItemsMenu.name|wash}</a>
				{else}
					<a href={$menuSubTopItemsMenu.url_alias|ezurl()}>{$menuSubTopItemsMenu.name|wash}</a>
				{/if}
			</li>
		{/foreach}

Hope this maybe will help someone else...

Ciao,
Mike