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Sub Menu Heading

The standard EllNav Horiz/Vert set of templates has a horizontal main menu and then a secondary vertical menu. Sometimes its nice to add a heading to the vertical menu to place it in context on the page. This article is taken from a []http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php/topic,4705.msg26467.html#msg26467 forum post]] which describes a solution.

The steps required are:

1. Create a new user-defined tag by going to Extensiosn -> User-Defined Tags
2. Click on Add User Defined Tag
3. Provide a tag name of parent_title
4. Provide code as follows:

global $gCms;
$db =& $gCms->GetDb();

$vars =& $gCms->variables;

$query = "SELECT content_name FROM "
  .cms_db_prefix()
  ."content WHERE content_id = (SELECT parent_id FROM "
  .cms_db_prefix()
  ."content WHERE content_id = '"
  .$vars['content_id']
  ."');";

$dbresult = $db->Execute($query);
if ($dbresult && $dbresult->RowCount() > 0) {
  $row = $dbresult->FetchRow();
  echo $row['content_name'];
} else {
  echo $vars['pageinfo']->content_menutext;
}

Submit, and the tag is now ready for use in any templte.

For example, you can add this to the EllNav Horiz/Vert L 1col template (and likely also the EllNav Horiz/Vert L 2col template by matching the code below with the template code:

   <!-- Start Content (Navigation and Content columns) -->
   <div id="content" class="clearfix">

      <!-- Start Navigation -->
      <div id="menu_vert">
         <h2 class="accessibility">Sub Navigation</h2>
      <h2>{parent_title}</h2>
         {cms_module module='menumanager' template='ellnav-accessible.tpl' start_level='2' collapse='1'}
      <hr />
      </div>
      <!-- End Navigation -->

Notice the new line inserted which contains: {parent_title}.

Now open a page that uses this template, and, voila!, there is now a heading above the submenu that matches the first level menu.

Using the Menu Manager to Create Sub Menu Headings

Another way to create a menu header is to create a simplified template in the menu manager. Your header could be a styled text label or an image that changes depending on which section you're in.

Make a new menu template just for the header. The code for this header-only menu template is:

{if $count > 0}
   {foreach from=$nodelist item=node}
      {if $node->current == true or $node->parent == true}
         {* ADD WHAT YOU WANT TO DISPLAY AS A HEADER HERE. *}
      {/if}
   {/foreach}
{/if}

In this menu template, replace the comment line with the HTML/Smarty code that displays what you want in your menu header. You can make your own, or just copy/paste from your side menu template. A few examples are shown below.

In your page template, add {menu start_level ='1' number_of_levels='1'} where you want the header to appear — usually just before your side {menu}. Styling and formatting of the header can be included in either the menu template or page template.

Examples:

• For just the text, use "$node->menutext" in your menu template.
• To use an image, use "<img src='__your_path__/{$node->alias}.jpg'/ alt="{$node->menutext}">". Simply name your header images after the page aliases of the top-level pages change __your_path__ to the folder where the images are saved.