Friday 25 July 2003 6:43:26 am

Valentin, I'm running into the same issue myself. I tried using a "link" but I cannot find a way to have it poitn directly at the URL in my navigation. Instead, it always links to the page (node) about the external site.

It doesn't make much sense.

Alex

Alex
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<i>When in doubt, clear the cache.</i>

Tuesday 03 January 2006 2:29:14 am

I also needed external links in the left menu. So I wrote an modification of templates/menu/flat_left.tpl

Now you just can include an external link with the build in eZ link class. Never figured out what the link class was good for anyway when you have other ways to include links in articles.

Make sure you have included link class in menu.ini.append.php [MenuContentSettings].

If you want you can hide link class in folder.tpl.

The complete file templates/menu/flat_left.tpl:

{def $menu_level_one_less=0}
{def $hideSubMenu=false()}
{* We can't manipulate $menu.url_alias, so we make an local variable *}
{def $this_url_alias=''}

{let docs=treemenu( $module_result.path,
                    is_set( $module_result.node_id )|choose( 2, $module_result.node_id ),
                    ezini( 'MenuContentSettings', 'LeftIdentifierList', 'menu.ini' ),
                    0, 10 )
                    depth=1
                    last_level=1}
                    
	<h3 class="hide">{"Left menu"|i18n("design/base")}</h3>  
	<ul>

	{section var=menu loop=$:docs last-value}

		{set last_level=$menu.last|is_array|choose( $menu.level, $menu.last.level )}

		{* Bug fix: folder as sub items beneath an article make the menu break *} 
		{* This fix make all menu items that have an illegal menu.level jump (more than 1) *}
		{* not to be displayed *}
        {set $menu_level_one_less=sub( $menu.level, 1)}
        {if gt( $menu_level_one_less, $last_level ) }
        	{set $hideSubMenu=true()}
        {/if}
        {if eq($hideSubMenu, true() )}
        	{if eq($menu.level, 0)}
        		{set $hideSubMenu=false()}
        	{/if}
        {/if}
		
        {* Display external urls in a link class *}
        {* NB. Make sure you have included link class in: *} 
        {* menu.ini.append.php [MenuContentSettings] *}
        {def $my_node=fetch( 'content', 'node', hash( 'node_id', $menu.id ) )}        
		{set $this_url_alias=$menu.url_alias}
		{if ne($my_node.object.data_map.location.content, '')}
			{set $this_url_alias = $my_node.object.data_map.location.content}
		{/if}  	
        
        {* Don't show some menu nodes *}
        {if and( eq($hideSubMenu, false() ), ne($menu.id, 1267), ne($menu.id, 1330) )}
     	  	{section show=and( $last_level|eq( $menu.level ), $menu.number|gt( 1 ) )}
	            </li>
	        {section-else}
	            {section show=and( $last_level|gt( $menu.level ), $menu.number|gt( 1 ) )}
	                </li>
	                    {"</ul>
	                </li>"|repeat(sub( $last_level, $menu.level ))}
	            {/section}
	        {/section}
	
	        {section show=and( $last_level|lt( $menu.level ), $menu.number|gt( 1 ) )}
	            <ul>
	                <li {$menu.is_selected|choose( '', 'class="on"' )}>
	        {section-else}
	            <li {$menu.is_selected|choose( '', 'class="on"' )}>
	        {/section}
	
	        <a {$menu.is_selected|choose( '', 'class="on"' )} href={$this_url_alias|ezurl}>{$menu.text}</a>
			
	        {/if}
	        {set depth=$menu.level}
	    {/section}
	       </li>
	
	    {section show=sub( $depth, 0 )|gt( 0 ) loop=sub( $depth, 0 )}
	        </ul>
	    </li>
		{/section}
   
    </ul>

{/let}
{undef $this_url_alias}
{undef $menu_level_one_less}
{undef $hideSubMenu}