By eliza411 on

I'm trying to find recommendations for best practices in drupal menu design, but I'm not really finding what I need.

The site I'm working on is large . . . navigationally, they've chosen a horizontal menu with 6-8 large categories, each of which will have 6-10 subcategories. Most of those sub-categories will change fairly frequently and will have their own project-level navigational needs which don't appear in the horizontal menu, so projects get a vertical menu that should only be visible when a user is within the project. Not all pages within a project will necessarily appear on the project menu.

Right now, the way I see to accomplish this is to use categories to indicate where each node will fall within the hierarchy, add each project's main page as a menu item on the horizontal menu, create a menu for each project, and add that menu's block to the layout using a php snippet that evaluates the category to determine if the block should be visible or not.

Is there a better way to accomplish this? Is there somewhere to look for advice about menu design that might be relevant?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

Comments

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Jeff Burnz commented

the way I have done this on my latest project is to use url alias's (i use the category module and pathauto) and use the block display options for controlling block visability - ie tell drupal where to display blocks based on urls.

otherwise all pretty much the same as you descibe, except that I assume your main horizontal menu will be a drop menus?

I think you'll find a lot of different ideas and not many 'this is the way it should be done' sort of articles or posts - thats the beauty of Drupal, lots of different ways of achieveing the same or similar results - so you can tailor it to suit your site, rather than the other way around.

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