PageTree module
Development and Programming
Hi all
I’ve written a new module called PageTree, that allows you to create arbitrary page navigation structures, with any level of heirarchy.
Each “page” object has metadata (title, short description), and linking info (template group/name and optional entry id, or a static url). Pages have any number of child pages, with any level of nesting.
You can then use tags in your templates to render those trees in different ways (eg: breadcrumbs, section nav, sitemap). The tags can auto-detect the current page, based on the query string (ie: it looks for a page that matches the current template/entry combination), or you can supply it at a parameter.
It has a few funky features, like auto-exporting the page structure into a specified category group, allowing you to associate weblog entries to pages (in addition to associating pages to weblog entries). This is nice for doing things like sidebar elements that you want to post to multiple “pages”.
I’m pretty sure people might find this module useful.
I’d like to make it available to the community, but I’m concerned about the codebase. While I’ve coded it all myself, I’ve used chunks of the built-in Weblog module’s code as “inspiration”.
I need some advice on whether this module is distributable. I’m happy to supply the MOD and MCP files to someone from pMachine, to see what you think, and I’m happy to “clean room” any contentious chunks of code.
Che
We’ve been pretty liberal about people using the ExpressionEngine code as inspiration in their modules and plugins, especially the Weblog Module. If you want to send me a copy of the files at paul [at] pmachine [dot] com, I will give the files a look over.
This sounds amazing… I would LOVE something like this.
Please send a post when this is an official module. This is a needed feature in EE.
It is just semantics, but whether this is released by the author or not - it won’t be an “official module” unless pMachine starts rolling it out wtih EE. =)
Thanks Paul – I’ll send the files through.
The module is functional, but could use some testing, and additional conditional tags… After I’ve had some feedback from pMachine, I’ll open it up to some limited beta-testing through this forum.
Just so no-one gets too excited… Paul gave me some early feedback on the module, and I need to debug the install script. So it might be a few days before I can report back with any progress.
Ok, Che, send another post when you get it up and running. thanks.
Hey guys, just found this post. This sounds like a great addition to EE! I hope Paul didn’t bust your bubble, Che. We’re looking forward to seeing this in action!
Not to sound pushy or anything, just want to make sure this isn’t forgotten about. Have there been any breakthroughs with it? If you need a beta tester, let me know (c:
This is listed in modules, is it working and ready to take for a spin?
It is in the list of known modules - NOT released….
Let go
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Pardon?