I'm trying to quickly create a web site for a project that I'm going to be
working on for the next few months. So far, mod_perl has been a wonderful
help. However, I now need to implement a nice site-wide navigation bar.
The site will be changing quickly and I don't want to spend much time
maintaining it, so I'd like the navigation bar to be generated
automatically.
For sites like this in the past, I've rolled my own mod_perl module to
look for certain requests and massage the HTML slightly to append a
navigation bar to the edge that's dynamically generated on each request.
However, this site will be hit a lot harder than those other sites were
and I'd like something a little more elegant.
I know about the Apache::NavBar module that is mentioned in Doug and
Lincoln's book; however, I am looking for more of a hierarchy-based list
that expands as people navigate it. In addition, I would like to have a
site map produced automatically.
I would actually love to write something like this myself, but with the
short timescale that I'm on, I would really prefer not to reinvent the
wheel right now. So, does anyone know of something out there that can do
this? (not necessarily even mod_perl-based, I'd settle for something under
mod_jserv at this point). If not, how much interest is there in me
publishing something like this to CPAN if I get it written? If I have the
time, I'd even like to write a few scripts to use the GIMP to create
graphical navbars for the site (ala GIMP's web site).
Thanks in advance,
Don
