Ability to optionally insert the alphabetical pager into the header and/or footer of 'initialed' pages

thanks, have read, will try.

Hi, I've turned my hand to this and would like to present the result when a custom block is used to carry an alphabar, using PHP code input format (as admin) and (amongst other code) the snippet:

print '<p class="g2-alphabar ">'.theme('g2_alphabar', _g2_alphabar()).'</p>';

I then place that block in the region content top (I am using theme adapted from the Zen theme), and I set the option Show on only the listed pages to:

g2/initial/*

Although this does enable users to navigate from the initials search result page to any other initials search via the alphabar links, there is a slight problem with this approach, namely that the region content top appears above the
breadcrumb (which shows a link to home >). So on the main G2 glossary page (accessed via /g2) the alphabar and description is below the home link, whereas on the initial result page it is below it.

Please compare the 2 attached images.

All in all it took quite a bit of tweaking and fiddling in different places
(and some custom CSS styling to handle display of the same text in different region contexts), and I think there is a compelling case for making this a default feature with easily (centralised) customisable content through the G2 admin page.

I will now have a go at doing it directly in code (i.e. hacking your module) to see whether I can't get a more consistent result than with the block approach.

Well its easy enough to generate an alphabar (along with other eye candy) and insert it after the "initialed" title, by introducing a customised alphabar and returning it within function _g2_initial($initial) by including it in $ret (see attachment).

However I don't see how to get that customised alphabar to appear before the initialed title, yet after the home link in the breadcrumb, which is where common sense dictates it belongs:

function theme_g2_initial($initial = NULL) {
  $initial = filter_xss($initial);
  drupal_set_title(strtr(G2TITLEINITIAL, array('%initial' => $initial)));
  $ret = _g2_initial($initial);
  return $ret;
}

In the above the "initialed" title is set through drupal_set_title(), and I don't see where else there is an opportunity for me to intervene (hack in) my customised alphabar. I'd welcome any further suggestions.

In the meantime I'll keep using the custom block approach, however it is definitely not yet the desired result.

thanks,

Webel

@fgm thanks for recent efforts, which I will have the opportunity to employ on future sites; the previous fix/workaround will remain in place unchanged on the previous client site which instigated this thread.