EE Pages Module: best way to create navigation?

Hi stevo_s,

I’m working on a simple plugin that returns a list of links to your static pages created with the EE Pages Module. If you really need something fast I can PM you the beta.

Cheers.

no mad rush, i’ll wait till you are happy to release it.

I’ll try the embed thing first and see how much hassle it becomes.

Mmm, Cocoaholic that sounds like a winner. If we could give these static pages parents, like in the old Pages module then a really nice navigation module could be written up, I’m sure.

I’m writing here to make sure I’m subscribed to this thread and I await your release as well!

I will be away for the weekend but I’ll pick this up again on Monday.

A beta version can be downloaded here.

This version already has quite some features, parameters, variables, conditionals etc, so it should work for most people. Bug reports and suggestions are always welcome.

Enjoy the weekend!

ps. the EE team might be working on some tags for the Pages module, so if I need to change the name of this plugin just let me know.

EDIT: Obviously this plugin only works with EE 1.6 and the new Pages module installed.

Wow that’s quick, Cocoaholic! I’m looking forward to what happens with this. It’s great to have it built in, but I’m definitely seeing loop holes like navigation generation that you’re covering.

Hopefully, someone will figure out something with the serach results so they don’t have to go through a template path!

Hi, Cocoaholic - I hope you’ll submit this to our add-on library. =)

@Lisa,

I’ll add it next week, when it’s ready 😉

You rock, thanks =)

That looks slick, Cocoaholic! I might make a new status called “Nav” (i.e. Open, Closed, Draft, Nav) and then call out every EE Page with the staus of “Nav” to generate my navigation. Can’t wait to play with this.

I could actually use this right now on the site I’m developing, except that {count} doesn’t seem to be working, FYI. I have my nav being output, but need the last <li> to have a different class. I generally do that by stating something like: {if count == total_results}class=”last”{/if}. Almost there with it…and it’s only a .5 beta!

Oh, good. I was about to start working on a plugin like that for the site I’m working on now, and I decided to drop by the forums and see if I was missing anything… Good thing I did.

See if you can get {count} working! 😉

Hi all,

I just updated the plugin and would love some more feedback before I submit it to the add-on library.

download link

These are the changes.

Added parameters: switch=”one|two”

Added variables: {count} {item_total} {switch}

@mdesign, I added the “total_results” variable but named it “item_total” to avoid possible conflicts.

Released the plugin!

Changes:

Switched to the weblog “switch” style introduced in EE 1.5.2 (can switch more than 2 values)

Example:

{exp:pages_menu}
{switch="red|white|blue"}
{/exp:pages_menu}

instead of:

{exp:pages_menu switch="red|white"}
{switch}
{/exp:pages_menu}