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Updated from 5.5.2.1 to 5.6.1 - self-hard-coded navigation not working as intended anymore.

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Hi guys,

I've just installed a fresh copy of concrete5 (5.6.1) on a new host (My old host had version 5.5.2.1) and I'm having difficulties with getting the (custom) theme I was working on to work like it was on this new install.

The problem I'm having lies in the navigation.php element I have on my theme, which is coded a bit goofy but it worked before on the other host (5.5.2.1).

Here's the code for the file in question:
<ul>
   <li id="nav_blog<?php if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'blog')) echo '_active'; elseif (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'about')) echo '_assist'; ?>"><a href="/blog" alt="Blog"></a></li>
   <li id="nav_about<?php if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'about')) echo '_active'; elseif (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'freebies')) echo '_assist'; ?>"><a href="/about" alt="About"></a></li>
   <li id="nav_freebies<?php if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'freebies')) echo '_active'; elseif (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'portfolio')) echo '_assist'; ?>"><a href="/freebies" alt="Freebies"></a></li>
   <li id="nav_portfolio<?php if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'portfolio')) echo '_active'; ?>"><a href="/portfolio" alt="Portfolio"></a></li>
   <li id="nav_home"><a href="/" alt="Home"></a></li>
</ul>


I basically made this to be able to change the ID's of the LI's depending on what top level page of the site you would be on.

The "_assist" & "_active" addition to the ID would trigger my css to apply some background-position changes.



I should note that I had "Enable Pretty URLs" checked. I've done a bit of searching trying to find an awnser before posting here and I believe I've read something about that pretty urls changed in some way over 5.6 (which may or may not be the cause).

I've also checked if the "_active" part would become active if I changed the " (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'blog')) " to " (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'index.php')) " (With pretty urls on) and it activated when testing that.



I should add that I know little to nothing about php and that I've coded this piece of php in because I found out about it through google searches of my "navigation goal" and it seemed to work at the time. I'm sure it could be done in a better way, but I wouldn't know how.



Any tips or recommendations to get the desired effect again?

Kind regards and thanks in advanced,

Michael
Michaeldegreef
 
adajad replied on at Permalink Reply
adajad
Jordanlev rewrote the whole code for the autonav which now is awesome to work with, and I think you could create a custom template that suits your needs.

Have a look at the well commented code in /concrete/blocks/autonav/view.php

And also check out Jordans blogpost here explaining hardcoding options of the autonav: http://c5blog.jordanlev.com/blog/2012/04/hard-coded-autonav-options...

If you don't know how to create a custom template you can find more information here: http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/change-how...

Basically you can copy '/concrete/blocks/autonav/view.php' to '/blocks/autonav/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/view.php' and edit that file to your liking.
Michaeldegreef replied on at Permalink Reply 1 Attachment
Michaeldegreef
Hey Adajad,

Thanks for your reply. It seems like creating a custom autonav template would be a great way to go.

I've been looking and tweaking around a bit with the custom template to see if I could get it to work like I want it to... but I'm having some difficulties.

I see that I can replace the "_active" in my css with "nav-path-selected". But I'm still figuring out how to get the "_assist" option... It's all still a bit confusing.

In any case I'm grateful for your reply, I'll keep fiddling around with the custom autonav template and see if I can get it working :).

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Edit:
I've just completed getting the nav to work on hover and on active, all I need now is to get a fix around the "assist" I had and I'm done.

currently using this for code:

navigation.php 
<?php
   $nav = BlockType::getByHandle('autonav');
   $nav->controller->orderBy = 'display_asc';
   $nav->controller->displayPages = 'top';
   $nav->controller->displaySubPages = 'none';
   $nav->render('templates/mainmenu');
?>

mainmenu.php

ATTACHED AS .TXT FILE

adjusted main.css, examples:
#nav_blog_active {
   background-position: -460px -248px;
}

to
.nav-path-selected.nav_Blog {
   background-position: -460px -248px;
}

etc. to match



So I'm glad I got that working, now all I need is to find of a way to tell the nav item BEFORE the active nav item to have an 'assist' class... somehow...

Any ideas?
Michaeldegreef replied on at Permalink Reply
Michaeldegreef
Bump

I'm afraid I still haven't been able to get this working. Any help or thoughts would be deeply appriciated.