On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 05:51:20PM -0500, Enrique Vega mentioned:
> If I may presume to give advice on the type of code needed for navigation, I
> would like to suggest creating separate code for the following standard
> navigation:
>
> 1. web site code which displays an index of:
> a. all pages
> 1. sub pages
> b. all topics
> 1. sub topics
> c. all articles
> 1. individual articles
> a. include the ability to add field information
> 1. ie; author name, address, from person record
> d. forward, back, & top links for pages, topics, & articles
What I would love would be a threaded news index. So that you would see
soemthing like:
root topic
--- top topic 1
\-- sub topic a
\-- sub topic b
\-- sub topic c
|-- top topic 2
\-- sub topic a
|-- top topic 3
\-- sub topic a
\-- sub topic b
|-- top topic 4
\-- sub topic a
\-- sub topic b
And then clicking on something like sub topic b (in top topic 3) would
show;
root topic
--- top topic 1
|-- top topic 2
|-- top topic 3
\-- sub topic a
\-- sub topic b
\-- article 1
\-- article 2
\-- article 3
\-- article 4
\-- article 5
|-- top topic 4
etc. It's something I'll work out how to do myself, over time. But to be
honest, it's the sort of stuff I thought midgard would have shipped with!
> This is great, but what I really wanted to do was to get only a listing of
> all sub topics. I spent the better part of a day looking through manuals and
> code, which by the way had little or no comments for users to understand. So
> now I am at a dead end. I have no idea how to get my news page to
> dynamically display sub topics or even topics without going through a long
> learning curve. It seems that I am going to have to learn php AND midgard
> before I can develop a simple dynamic web site using midgard and nadmin :-(
I sorta blame the "level 2 users" like me - those that have spent the
time on midgard, and know how it (mostly) works - and haven't annotated
the manual once they get the help on the mailing list. PHP.net is an
example of how an annotated manual works.
Kate
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