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Hi,

We are building a website for a local photographer. The website itself is powered by Concrete5 however we decided to use PhotoCart for the Gallery/Store section.

We would like any changes to the site navigation to appear in the PhotoCart template as well. I have a solution that almost works, I'm hoping someone can help me with the last piece.


1) Enable events in site.php:
define('ENABLE_APPLICATION_EVENTS', true);



2) Hook into the relevant events in site_events.php:
Events::extend('on_page_add', 'Store', 'regenerateMenu', 'models/store.php');
Events::extend('on_page_duplicate', 'Store', 'regenerateMenu', 'models/store.php');
Events::extend('on_page_delete', 'Store', 'regenerateMenu', 'models/store.php');
Events::extend('on_page_move', 'Store', 'regenerateMenu', 'models/store.php');
Events::extend('on_page_update', 'Store', 'regenerateMenu', 'models/store.php');



3) Code store.php to load a custom autonav template
class Store {
   function regenerateMenu($objPage) {
      $bt_main = BlockType::getByHandle('autonav');
      $bt_main->controller->displayPages = 'top';
      $bt_main->controller->orderBy = 'display_asc';                    
      $bt_main->controller->displaySubPages = 'none';                    
      $bt_main->render('templates/echo');
   }
}



4) Code the custom template to output to a file instead of echoing
$echo ='<ul class="nav">'; //opens the top-level menu
foreach ($navItems as $ni) {
   $echo .='<li class="' . $ni->classes . '">'; //opens a nav item
   $echo .='<a href="' . $ni->url . '" target="' . $ni->target . '" class="' . $ni->classes . '">' . $ni->name . '</a>';
   if ($ni->hasSubmenu) {
      $echo .='<ul>'; //opens a dropdown sub-menu
   } else {
      $echo .='</li>'; //closes a nav item
      $echo .=str_repeat('</ul></li>', $ni->subDepth); //closes dropdown sub-menu(s) and their top-level nav item(s)
   }
}
$echo .='</ul>'; //closes the top-level menu
file_put_contents("./menu.html", $echo);



4) Include menu.html in my PhotoCart template.

5) ???

6) Profit


Any help with step 5 would be appreciated. Everything works, except menu.html is 1 change behind. I add a page but it doesn't show up. I add another page and then the first is there but not the second.

Thanks in advance.

Jeff Paetkau
JeffPaetkau