I need help with how to turn my Secondary Menu into a Nice Menu. The problem is that there is no region location to affix the nice menu block to. The theme I'm using is Aboutpeople which has the following regions: Header, Content Top, Content, Right, Left, Footer.

I'd like to do this without creating a new region. Is it possible by changing page.tpl?

I'm rather new to php so any code snippets would be appreciated!

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jhofer’s picture

jhofer commented

I figured out how to get the secondary links menu to drop down... not pretty but it works. since there's no "nice_menu_secondary_links" - I placed the 'nice_menu_primary_links' which calls the nice menu block... in the submenu section... this is what it looks like in the page.tpl file:

       <?php if (($secondary_links)) : ?>
      <?php print '<div id="submenu">' ?>
          <?php print theme('nice_menu_primary_links'); ?>
          <?php print '</div><div class="stopfloat"></div>' ?>
        <?php endif; ?>

The 'Primary Menu' items now go where the secondary menu is. I wanted this layout with the drop down menu below the header picture in the Aboutpeople theme.

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izmeez commented

I've used the nice menus module 6.x.-2.x-dev for a while now, thanks - it's great.

Just recently, I was exploring using nice menus for the secondary menu.

I am using a zen subtheme and edited the page.tpl.php just editing one line from
<?php print theme('links', $secondary_links); ?>
to
<?php print theme('nice_menus_secondary_links', $secondary_links); ?>
so the block appears as 

  <?php if (!empty($secondary_links)): ?>
    <div id="secondary" class="clear-block">
      <?php print theme('nice_menus_secondary_links', $secondary_links); ?>  <!-- Use nice menus -->
          </div>
        <?php endif; ?>

This works, including the drop downs menu items but I have two problems I would appreciate help with.

1. Hover over any secondary menu item (parent) does reveal the vertical drop down, however, hover over one of the children causes a drop down in exactly the same place, it does not appear in a separate column to the side of the first.

2. The width of the drop down menu is wider than needed. Can this be adjusted?

This does not happen when I use the nice menus in a block. The heirarchy of menus works perfectly with hover. The width of the drop down on closer examination does seem a bit wider than needed for the menu items, but not as wide as in the secondary menus.

I would like to be able to have nice menus work for the Secondary menu and would appreciate any ideas on how best to do this. Thanks,

Izzy

izmeez’s picture

izmeez commented

I have decided to abandon the approach of using Nice Menus in the Secondary menu. The CSS effects are quite weird and having a separate region works much better for me.

Izzy

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add1sun commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

no response from OP.