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Hi David, very nice work of you and the entire team! It’s great to see stuff like this in the docs section because searching forums isn’t always a convenient and good way to gather the info you need. When it’s in one place in the docs you can keep it up to date following best practises and future releases of Frog.

Great Thanks!

@BlueFrog – the ‘Unlimited levels and children’ code is mine, not David’s but that doesn’t matter too much.. :-)

You’ll need to change two lines, one in the function and the one outside the function:

Function:

echo '<li>'.$menu->link($menu->title, (in_array($menu->slug, explode('/', $current->url)) ? ' class="current"': null)).'</li>';

should become

echo '<li'.in_array($menu->slug, explode('/', $current->url)) ? ' class="current"': ''.'>'.$menu->link($menu->title).'</li>';

Outside the function:

echo '<li>'.$page->link($page->title, (in_array($page->slug, explode('/', $this->url)) ? ' class="current"': null)).'</li>';

Should become:

echo '<li'.in_array($page->slug, explode('/', $this->url)) ? ' class="current"': ''.'>'.$page->link($page->title, null).'</li>';

That should be about it.

Hey mvdkleijn, biggup for the mods … and David, thanks for the headsup.

Have quite a few things I’m working on at the moment, but look foward to contributing some stuff as soon as I get some more time.

David was right. Partially :-)

You were trying to display all children of Home (i.e. “/”)… successfully I might add ;-)

To be more exact, the code you were using:

echo displayChildren($page, $this, 'private/', null);

means: display all children of $page where $this is the current page the user is at.

The third parameter (‘private/’ in your case) should only be true or false. That parameter tells the displayChildren function to print an <ul> and </ul>..

The last parameter is the one you tried to use with the ‘private/’ bit I think.

If you use it, the last parameter should be an array of slugs & limits.

array('my-slug' => '3')

Each entry in the array tells the function to only display a maximum number of children for the page with that slug.

The above example says: when displayChildren encounters a page with slug ‘my-slug’, only display three of its children. (and their children and so on)

Please also see this page explaining the function

Strange… I thought I validated the output with the W3C.

oh well, maybe I accidentally posted an older version of the function. I’ll update it tonight or this weekend to make it XHTML strict. (what I usually try to do) :-)

Ok, I’m having real problems with these menu things. What I want is:

Home
 > Articles
 > > Free Market
 > > > Free Market Articles
 > > Guns
 > > > Guns Articles
 > > Miscellaneous
 > > > Misc Articles
 > > Politics
 > > > Politics Articles
 > > Plugins
 > > > Plugins Articles

I am able to make it list the menu like that, but the links it gives me send me to 404 errors. It would really help organization if I could separate articles by topic. I tried removing the article tab altogether and got nothing but errors, no matter what I tried.

For example under the Plugins menu, it gave me a link to (test server):

http://localhost/?articles/2008/10/18/plugins/2008/10/18/pinger.xhtml

But all I get is a 404 error at that address. Is there anyway to fix this?

EDIT: I tried to edit the link down to just:

http://localhost/?articles/plugins/pinger.xhtml

But it sends me to a “December 1999 Archive”, which I find really odd.

I really appreciate the reply, David, rambling or not ;-)

I was pretty tired while I was writing that. I am trying to use the Unlimited Children, Unlimited Levels function. I had assumed by “levels” you meant deep, not wide.

Ah well. I really really like my organization, so being able to keep articles in the article thread and also keeping them organized into topic matter is somewhat important to me. I am currently using the Tagger plugin (and love it). I’d like to have a true cloud, but meh, something’s better than nothing!

I have really enjoyed using Frog, thus far, and hope that somewhere I might be able to contribute. If this is something that the smart folks, behind this program, know how to fix, I’d be in your debt… again!

I will give that a try, David. Thanks for your persistance!