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[jaway Friend jawayJoin date: September 2008Posts: 49Downloads:0Uploads:9 Thanks: 24 Thanked: 3 times in 2 posts]

#133031

Could somebody suggest an extension that would make it possible to create a configurable combobox menu such as that found on this site:

• http://www.juicymedia.co.uk/Juicy_Media_Sitemap/

or even better,

• the one at the bottom right corner of this Joomlart forum?

I would like to be able to display The 1st level menu, 2nd level and potentially configure it to show fewer or more details.

Thanks

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[tonyg Friend tonygJoin date: June 2008Posts: 197Downloads:0Uploads:8 Thanks: 18 Thanked: 46 times in 27 posts]

#269217

Hi

Take a look at this, you may find it useful http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,168/Itemid,35/

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1. jaway

[jaway Friend jawayJoin date: September 2008Posts: 49Downloads:0Uploads:9 Thanks: 24 Thanked: 3 times in 2 posts]

#269884

Thanks tonyg,

This is quite a complex extension. I am not sure you understood what I want to do – did you have a look at the attachment in my first post to the thread? I want a drop down list, similar to a drop down of countries in a form address field. I want in this drop down to list all my Main Menu options like this

Level 0
– Level 1
–Level 2

or

Level 0
Level 1
Level 2

Can you or anybody else suggest a suitable and simple way of doing that?

The two I found on Joomla’s Extension page:

1. Quick Jump Menu
2. X-Quick Jump

Unfortunately these have serious problems
a) they do not handle top level of the menu structure i.e. Level 0 from above example
b) one of them sorts everything alphabetically and doesn’t remove duplicates
c) there is no control over what appears and doesn’t appear.

I am sure that there must be a simple way to create a simple links dropdown like the 2 examples I gave in my original post. I thought that since Joomlart has such a dropdown in its forum somebody from the admins/moderators/developers could tell us how they did it or how they suggest to do it

Tonyg, just in case I have misunderstood your suggestion:
Q1) Do you have an example of a similar combo box menu that has been created using this extension?
Q2) Do you have a link to any instructions on how to do that?

[maclarkson Friend maclarksonJoin date: January 2008Posts: 1Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#288745

With a modifcation of the Quick jump files I think you can get what you need.

1) Create a text file and name it mod_dropdownmenu.php
2) insert the flowing code into and save it.
[PHP]<?php
//Drop Down Menu//
/**
* Drop Down Menu Module
* @package Joomla
* @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
* @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL, see LICENSE.php
* Joomla! is free software and parts of it may contain or be derived from the
* GNU General Public License or other free or open source software licenses.
* See COPYRIGHT.php for copyright notices and details.
*/

defined( ‘_VALID_MOS’ ) or die( ‘Direct Access to this location is not allowed.’ );

$menu_name = $params->get( ‘menu’ );
$ordering = $params->get( ‘ordering’ );
$parent = $params->get(‘parent’);
$style = $params->get(‘style’);

if (true ) {
// Assign ordering

switch ($ordering) {
case ‘descending’:
$orderBy = ‘name DESC ‘;
break;
case ‘ascending’:
default:
$orderBy = ‘name ASC ‘;
break;
}

// select the meta keywords from the item
//$query = ‘SELECT * FROM #__menu WHERE menutype = ‘.$menu_name.’ AND published =’1′ AND parent != ‘0’ ORDER BY ‘ . $orderBy ;
$query = “SELECT * FROM #__menu “
. ” WHERE menutype = ‘”. $menu_name .”‘ “
. ” AND published = ‘1’”
. ” AND parent = ‘”. $parent .”‘ “
. ” ORDER BY “. $orderBy;
// echo $query;
$database->setQuery( $query );

$mymenu_content =”<form name=’Lnk’><select name=’GrpComp’ class=’inputbox’ style='”.$style.”‘
onchange=’javascript:location.href=document.Lnk.GrpComp.options.value;’ >
<option>– Select Company –</option>”;

if ($mymenu_rows = $database->loadObjectList() ) {

foreach($mymenu_rows as $mymenu_row) {

$mymenulink = $mymenu_row->link;
if ($mymenu_row->type != “url”) {
$mymenulink .= “&Itemid=$mymenu_row->id”;
}

if ($mymenu_row->type != “separator”) {
$mymenu_content .= ” <option value=””.sefRelToAbs($mymenulink).”” >$mymenu_row->name</option>r”;
}
}
//$mymenu_content = substr($mymenu_content,0,strlen($mymenu_content)-2);
$mymenu_content .= “</select></form>”;?>
<table border=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ align=”center”>
<tr>
<td >
<div align=”center”><?php echo $mymenu_content ?></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?
}
echo $database->getErrorMsg();
}

?>
[/PHP]

3) create another file and name is mod_dropdownmenu.xml
4) insert the following code into it

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<mosinstall type="module">
<name>Drop Down Menu</name>
<creationDate>26-june-2006</creationDate>
<author>Walid Nehme</author>
<copyright>(c) 2006 Walid Nehme</copyright>
<license>http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL</license>
<authorEmail>walid@walidnehme.com</authorEmail>
<authorUrl>www.walidnehme.com</authorUrl>
<version>2.0</version>
<description> This Module Creates a drop down menu listing all sub menu items from a menu. </description>
<files>
<filename module="mod_dropdownmenu">mod_dropdownmenu.php</filename>
</files>
<params>
<param name="moduleclass_sfx" type="text" default="" label="Module Class Suffix"
description="A suffix to be applied to the css class of the module (table.moduletable), this allows individual module styling" />
<param name="@spacer" type="spacer" default="" label="" description="" />
<param name="parent" type="text" default="" label="Parent Level"
description="Enter the parent ID which you wish the menu to start from" />
<param name="style" type="text" default="width:140px;height:18px;font-size:11px; padding-left:3px" label="Styling Options"
description="Enter the Style type of your dropdown" />
<param name="ordering" type="list" default="ascending" label="Sort By:" description="Sort Menu items in Drop down Menu by Ascending/Descending">
<option value="ascending">Ascending</option>
<option value="descending">Descending</option>

</param>

<param name="@spacer" type="spacer" default="" label="" description="" />

<param name="menu" type="mos_menu" default="mainmenu" label="Menu" description="The name of the menu you wish the module to display - if no menu is selected the mainmenu is loaded" />

</params>

</mosinstall>


5) save both files into a zip file and call it mod_dropdownmenu.zip
6) install the zip as a module.

The Parent id is the level at which you want to start your menu from it hierarchy

:p

[jaway Friend jawayJoin date: September 2008Posts: 49Downloads:0Uploads:9 Thanks: 24 Thanked: 3 times in 2 posts]

#289423

Thanks maclarkson

I’ll see if I can figure it out. and then I’ll try it out.

You don’t happen to have a live example somewhere where I can see the actual result?

Thanks

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