Navigator module (navigation builder)

Was there ever a solution found to using this along with the Pages module?

I could use some feedback on adding the Pages URI’s. The module should remain usable for clients so I’m trying to implement it as simple as possible. I see a few options: 1 - add another select box containing all Pages as listed on the Pages Homepage. 2 - add a checkbox labeled something like “Use Pages URI if available”, next to the “entry Title” select box. The second option allows you to filter entry titles as usual which is nice, but I’m not sure clients will understand the whole ‘Pages URI’ thing. Another option could be to have the user a choose what type of URL you want to add, which will take them to the next page which is optimized for that type of URL. for example: - Add Custom URL - Add Pages URL - Build URL from templates etc. Please let me know what you think would be a good way to implement this. TIA, Elwin

Personally I think option #2 would be enough. If they’ve added a Page URI to the page entry then they’re understand what it means. As long as you use the same terminology as on the publish page.

I added a quick “Use Pages URI” checkbox.

You can download version 1.2 at the start of this thread.

Hi. Is there any variable to show navigator group title in the navigator template?

I’m using following query but built-in variable could have been better:

{exp:query sql="SELECT group_name FROM exp_navigator_groups WHERE group_id = '1'"}
{group_name}
{/exp:query}

Thanks.

I just noticed that when you chose to link to categories, the actual category name is being used for the link. This should probably be replaced with the url_title of a category as it’s safer to use than the name.

We’ll look into this shortly, but I suppose it’s a small thing Cocoaholic?

Or is this behaviour intended?

Good catch!

I’ll update the module later today.

Wow, that was fast.

Ok, let me know if you were successful, otherwise I can have a look at the code myself and give you a patch, but I suppose you’ll have it done faster.

A day later than planned, but version 1.2.1 now uses the catagories’ url_title instead of the category name for URL’s.

Thanks cocoaholic!

We’ll be posting a quick tutorial on how to make navigations with more than one level with your module soon.

Thanks cocoaholic! We’ll be posting a quick tutorial on how to make navigations with more than one level with your module soon.

That would be awesome. I’m always looking for a way to let clients control navigation without having to edit templates.

Hi there, I’m trying to use this module for a navigation menu where the active menu has a class=on. I find method of highlighting the current page to be more sustainable than the CSS method. But for some reason, I can’t seem to get this to work with this module - I’d appreciate if someone could take a look at my code and let me know if I’m doing something wrong, or whether I’m just trying to do something that this module can’t do? Note that I have entered the segment_1 value in the Description box, so for example, for the About page, the description is about, and segment_1 is about. Even though both values match (and I have verified this by ‘echo’ing’ the values in a test page), the ‘class=”on” code just won’t appear.

<ul>
{exp:navigator group="1"}
<li><a href="http://{nav_url}" class="on">{nav_title}</a></li>
{/exp:navigator}
</ul>

Thanks, Ste

Hi Ste,

try to exchange nav_description with segment_1

It works for me 😉

@Cocoaholic: thanks for update 😉

Thanks cocoaholic! We’ll be posting a quick tutorial on how to make navigations with more than one level with your module soon.

Any progress? I’m going to use this module soon, and it’d be nice to see what other people have done with it before I start coding. 😊

I first used this way back in 2006 on my first EE site. Sort of cool to see that it has been improved and worked on since. Nice work, Cocoaholic!

And thanks to mdesign for tweeting about it yesterday - just after I had a client ask me “can you add a way for us to manage the navigation bar?” 😊