Possible to get a menu on system template pages this way?

Saturday 07 July 2007 1:05:00 am

I'm still quite new to this (brilliant!!) game. Here's what I want to do - but before I spend time on it I want to check that I have understood it properly:

At the moment system templates show no menu because there is no node associated with their output (at least that's my understanding).

I would like to get the flat_left.tpl overridden by a template which does exactly the same thing but checks if there is a node and if there isn't it specifies one - perhaps the root node (but also perhaps not)

I think I either need to change this a bit:

{let docs=treemenu( $module_result.path,
                    is_set( $module_result.node_id )|choose( 2, $module_result.node_id ),
                    ezini( 'MenuContentSettings', 'LeftIdentifierList', 'menu.ini' ),
                    0, 5 )
                    depth=1
                    last_level=0}

or I need to exchange $module_result.path and $module_result.node_id for new variables ($current_path and $current_node_id perhaps) and test them to see if they have values and if they don't set them to values of my choice before this code fragment is run.

Hoping someone with more experience can give me a pointer or two!

Many thanks in advance.

Monday 09 July 2007 8:43:51 am

Worked it out on my own once I had the time:

used

{if is_set($module_result.node_id)}

standard menu production code

{else}

pasted code from source outputted from the node giving the default menu I wanted - from <ul> through to </ul>

{/if}

Tuesday 10 July 2007 1:18:20 am

As you might know you can't set objects in the template language, but if you really want to you can use a template operator to do it.

Some code that might help:

$view_parameters =& $tpl->variable('view_parameters');
$page_offset = $view_parameters['offset'];
...
$tpl->setVariable('children', $children);

But it's a lot cleaner to override pagelayout.tpl and change the logic to suite your needs!

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Wednesday 11 July 2007 7:05:13 am

the code fragment was an example on how to read and write variables from an template from inside a template operator.

On your code example you can use hash

{def $my_hash = hash('name','my name', 'age', 89, 'sex', 'male')}

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