Alternative to Menu_Link module - Yes, Page-Copier

[PurpleEdge]

Is there an alternative to the menu_link module?

I am finding that menu_link is messing up my "pretty" URLs and it doesn't respect the menu path when creating a site map.

Would it be practical for a MenuLink module to simply replace the index.php page that is created for the new menu item with a new index.php that points to the page that the menu is supposed to load?

[chio]

Jepp,
The best way would be to replace the links at the end of the index.php:
Find out the menulinks
FInd out their real link
str_replace them, before the final output of the page.

But this would be a quite slow method...

[PurpleEdge]

I was thinking of doing this when the menulink page is created, so it only gets done once.

[chio]

Thats not that easy, because WB saves a URL like "/folder/file"
Without Extension, without WB_URL and PAGES_DIRECTORY

So it wont work to change only the "link" - you also have to change all modules and snippets, which use the link - first of all "showmenu" and "showmenu2". And some more.

[PurpleEdge]

I'm not talking about changing the link, I'm suggestion changing the contents of index.php so instead of...

<?php
$page_id = 28;  // points to menu_link page which redirects to page_id = 15

.. generate..

<?php
$page_id = 15; //load page_id 15 directly

If I edit index.php for a menu_link page manually, it seems to work correctly. ?!

[Ruud]

Looks to me you are looking for the functionality of the Section-Picker

Ruud

[PurpleEdge]

Thanks Ruud,

You pointed me in the right direction Page-Copier does exactly what I want, but in a better fashion!

[pcwacht]

you mean editing the generated <page_name.php> and change the page_id there?

Or do you mean the rotts index.php

John

[PurpleEdge]

What I was looking for, functionally, was ...

• the ability to create a new menu link to an existing page
• retain my pretty-urls
• have the url display the new menu path
• have the breadcrumb trail show the new menu path to the page

This is exactly what page-copier provides.

So, now I can have a menu system which lists, for example, businesses by business type...

business-advertising/trades-people/electrical-services/toms-electrical-services/

...and business by suburb...

suburb-index/sydney/electrical-services/toms-electrical-services

...and have the menus point to the same page.

If you are familiar with Drupal, it is similar to their taxonomy.

My suggestion of changing the page-id in index.php doesn't provide the same features as page-copier.