Categories menu block and Sommaire

Regular Joined: Oct 13, 2007 Posts: 61

Hi,
I installed Sommaire v2.1 on Ravennuke 2.10 but it makes it W3C uncompliant, I can't seem to find a download of Sommaire beta 3.1 version on the web, links I've tried tend to take me to a page where it doesn't exist anymore. Does anyone know where I can download the 3.1 version and if so, is it W3C compliant? Other than that, I decided to use the Categories menu, but I basically want a tree type menu, thats static, so that all the links display under their category. Im no coder, so please could someone suggest how I can achieve this or tell me if its possible to alter the code in categories block to achieve it? Basically I want a static menu that displays something like this below.

Category Name
Link
Link
Link

Category Name
Link
Link
Link

Thanks for any help.
Jane

Involved Joined: Apr 22, 2006 Posts: 356

There is not Sommaire version that makes it compliant. The 3.1 was just an upgrade.

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:30 pm

Thats correct.
There is no Sommaire block currently publicly available that is XHTML Compliant.
I know one person who has made good progress in making it compliant and we did both knock heads for a short time in trying to get rid of a load of other errors in the code but do not think he would make it available publicly for that reason - there are still lots of errors in the code.
That is also why I have not named the person - he will read this and respond if he wishes.

As for your particular need for additional links, if you do not mind hard coding them, you can simply alter the code in blocks/modules.php

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:12 pm

Thanks for your replies, I decided to hard code it in the blocks/modules.php, seems the simplest solution and my site remains XHTML Compliant. Just to help anyone else that isnt a coder like me (took me a while to work it out Smile

) and wants a static tree type menu, I thought I'd show how I did it below.

FIND THIS CODE IN blocks/modules.php

$content .= '<big>·</big> <a href="index.php">'._HOME.'</a> ';

ADD your code between the first ' and the end '; of the above code like I have shown below. You can add linebreaks and horizontal lines where you want them - just ensure that all of the code you add is included before the '; otherwise you'll probably get a blank page. I have added category titles to the code, and my code now looks something like this.

$content .= 'CATEGORYTITLE <big>·</big> <a href="index.php">'._HOME.'</a> <hr></hr> CATEGORYTITLE <big>·</big> <CHANGE THIS URL a href="modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=6">LINKNAME</a> ';

TO REMOVE THE TITLE - MODULES, which maybe something you won't want displayed if you have included CategoryTitles in your code.

In the Anagram theme, find the Function Theme Side Box code and just alter this code below I guess in other themes the code must be same or similar.

FIND THIS CODE

.'<td align="left">'.$title.'</td>'

CHANGE TO

.'<td align="left"></td>'

Thats it Smile

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:04 am

I was waiting for you to ask 'how' but I am impressed that you dived right in there and had a go. Good job and well done!!

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:53 am

Thank you! Smile