Moodle

Support for a drop-down menu bar

Details

  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 2.0
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Themes
  • Labels:
    None
  • Environment:
    Patches for Moodle 1.9.0
    Demonstration at http://www.thss.ca/

Description

Drop-down menus are a useful way to present a number of links to students and teachers in an easily accessible fashion.

This patch adds a database table (mdl_menu);
a lib.php file to /themes/;
an editor for the menu items (/themes/menu.php);
the necessary JavaScript for menus (menu.js);
an example of implementation in a theme header (header.html)

Attachments

  1. Text File
    droplist.patch
    19/Jul/10 9:19 AM
    13 kB
    Dan Marsden
  2. HTML File
    header.html
    28/Aug/08 2:30 PM
    2 kB
    Darryl Pogue
  3. File
    lib.php
    28/Aug/08 2:25 PM
    3 kB
    Darryl Pogue
  4. XML File
    menu_xmldb.xml
    28/Aug/08 2:25 PM
    0.8 kB
    Darryl Pogue
  5. File
    menu.css
    28/Aug/08 2:32 PM
    1 kB
    Darryl Pogue
  6. File
    menu.js
    28/Aug/08 2:25 PM
    2 kB
    Darryl Pogue
  7. File
    menu.php
    28/Aug/08 2:25 PM
    9 kB
    Darryl Pogue

Issue Links

This issue has a non-specific relationship to:
MDL-16304 add a GUI to manage horizontal Moodle front page custom menu Minor Open

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Darryl Pogue added a comment -

JavaScript file needed for menus to work properly.

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Darryl Pogue added a comment - JavaScript file needed for menus to work properly.
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Wen Hao Chuang added a comment -

Have anyone tried or evaluated this? How accessible it is? Thanks!

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Wen Hao Chuang added a comment - Have anyone tried or evaluated this? How accessible it is? Thanks!
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Bhavin Doshi added a comment -

can anyone make it clear where to put the menu.js file? also, it seems that in config.php, an attribute called 'javascript' is supposed to be defined for the menu.js to be included as script in <head> section. what value is to be provided there?

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Bhavin Doshi added a comment - can anyone make it clear where to put the menu.js file? also, it seems that in config.php, an attribute called 'javascript' is supposed to be defined for the menu.js to be included as script in <head> section. what value is to be provided there?
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Bhavin Doshi added a comment -

and also, i tried it with the inline javascript in header.html, but didnt work. i think the only thing i m missing from the setup is the location and trick for inclusion of menu.js file. please help me over this.

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Bhavin Doshi added a comment - and also, i tried it with the inline javascript in header.html, but didnt work. i think the only thing i m missing from the setup is the location and trick for inclusion of menu.js file. please help me over this.
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Dan Marsden added a comment -

I've just had a play around with this patch - nice idea.

I've rewritten the menu.php page and changed the way that the menu is built - it now saves a file called "droplist.htm" into the dataroot - then the theme just includes this droplist.htm file like this:

<?php require($CFG->dataroot.'/droplist.htm'); ?>

I've also used local/db/upgrade.php to install the db table required (renamed to theme_menu as menu was a bit too generic)

attached is a patch that might help someone. Note: this patch doesn't include the JS required to turn the list generated in droplist.htm into a formatted droplist - I might upload what we use at some point if it's useful for others.

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Dan Marsden added a comment - I've just had a play around with this patch - nice idea. I've rewritten the menu.php page and changed the way that the menu is built - it now saves a file called "droplist.htm" into the dataroot - then the theme just includes this droplist.htm file like this: 
<?php require($CFG->dataroot.'/droplist.htm'); ?>
I've also used local/db/upgrade.php to install the db table required (renamed to theme_menu as menu was a bit too generic) attached is a patch that might help someone. Note: this patch doesn't include the JS required to turn the list generated in droplist.htm into a formatted droplist - I might upload what we use at some point if it's useful for others.

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