Random thoughts from ghenry

Showing content in Catalyst with TT depending on URL

written by Gavin Henry

Show submenus depending on where your users are.

Do something similar to this:

[% SET page = c.req.path %]
[% IF (matches = page.match('about')) %]
                                <ul>
                                    <li [% clients_class %]><a href="/about/clients/">Clients</a></li>
                                    <li [% case_studies_class %]><a href="/about/case_studies/">Case Studies</a></li>
                                    <li [% newsletter_class %]><a href="/about/newsletter/">Newsletter</a></li>
                                    <li [% this_site_class %]><a href="/about/this_site/">This Site</a></li>
                                    <li [% privacy_class %]><a href="/about/privacy/">Privacy</a></li>
                                    <li [% terms_class %]><a href="/about/terms/">Terms</a></li>
                                    <li [% usage_class %]><a href="/about/usage/">Usage</a></li>
                                    <li [% sitemap_class %]><a href="/about/sitemap/">Site Map</a></li>
                                </ul>
                            [% END %]

On Aug 09 2006 at 14:18
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erv9089@catalystframework.org

On Sep 23 2006 at 07:35
Chris wrote:

Personally i've been doing this with an arrayref of hashes stored in the stash:
eg:
$c->stash->{menu} = [
  { title => 'heading1', href => 'link someplace'},
  { title => 'heading2', items => [
    { title => 'item1', href=> 'link'}
...etc,

then just process it in the template using nested FOR loops. t works quite well since you can use $c->forward to delegate it to a common subroutine, then either pass arguments to that routine, or make a generic set of navigation links, then push extra controller-specific headings onto the end.