[solved] My account menu for users (same as admin)

Thursday 24 November 2005 9:02:41 pm

Hi all, I've been racking my brain trying to get this working, so this is my last resort.

I would like to create a "My Account" menu for my users similar to the one in the admin area (left hand menu when in My Account), this way when a user is logged in they can go to their account settings and a menu will be present.

In the menu I need a link to change notification settings, user profile and a couple of other links like a help link where they can get info on how to edit their account etc.

I've been looking in the admin templates and I have found in the pagelayout.tpl the code that performs this in the admin area, however I have so far been unsuccessful adapting it to the front end.

This is the code from admin pagelayout.tpl

{section show=and( eq( $ui_context, 'edit' ), eq( $ui_component, 'content' ) )}
{section-else}
<div id="leftmenu">
<div id="leftmenu-design">

{section show=and( $ui_context|eq( 'edit' ), $ui_component|eq( 'content' ) )}
    {include uri='design:edit_menu.tpl'}
{section-else}

{section show=eq( $navigation_part.identifier, 'ezcontentnavigationpart' )}
    {include uri='design:parts/content/menu.tpl'}
{/section}

{section show=eq( $navigation_part.identifier, 'ezmedianavigationpart' )}
    {include uri='design:parts/media/menu.tpl'}
{/section}

{section show=eq( $navigation_part.identifier, 'ezshopnavigationpart' )}
    {include uri='design:parts/shop/menu.tpl'}
{/section}

{section show=eq( $navigation_part.identifier, 'ezusernavigationpart' )}
    {include uri='design:parts/user/menu.tpl'}
{/section}

{section show=eq( $navigation_part.identifier, 'ezvisualnavigationpart' )}
    {include uri='design:parts/visual/menu.tpl'}
{/section}

{section show=eq( $navigation_part.identifier, 'ezsetupnavigationpart' )}
    {include uri='design:parts/setup/menu.tpl'}
{/section}

{section show=eq( $navigation_part.identifier, 'ezmynavigationpart' )}
    {include uri='design:parts/my/menu.tpl'}
{/section}

{/section}

</div>
</div>

<hr class="hide" />

{/section}

What I need is something like this:

{section show=and( eq( $ui_context, 'edit' ), eq( $ui_component, 'content' ) )}
{section-else}

{section show=eq( $navigation_part.identifier, 'ezmynavigationpart' )}
    {include uri='design:parts/my/menu.tpl'}
{/section}

{/section}

The problem is that this won't display the menu, but if I put this in my pagelayout.tpl:

{include uri='design:parts/my/menu.tpl'}

The menu shows up but it is on every page and it makes no difference if I'm logged in or not.

I beleve the answer lies in the ui_context and ui_component, I have read the doc on these but it makes little sence to me:
http://ez.no/download/changelogs/ez_publish_3_5/ui_context_variables

Does anyone have any idea how I can get this working? Any help is very appreciated.

Cheers!

Pardon me while I burst into flames...

Sunday 27 November 2005 2:37:42 pm

Thanks Mark, I'll look into these, I have already set up a couple of manual links, the main issue is showing the menu in the right locations though.

I don't want the menu to be present on every page, only the pages that relate to the user account. Do you have any ideas how I might accomplish this?

Cheers!

Pardon me while I burst into flames...

Tuesday 14 February 2006 12:17:43 pm

Hi Nathan,

Did you only use the code in your last post in the end?

Did you put it in pagelayout.tpl? Did you use it as is?

Regards Esperion