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Menu description field in node/add form
Submitted by sign on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 10:38.A simple solution how to add a description field to your node/add forms.
What is that for?
We are building a website that has landing pages. Structure could be like:
- About Us (landing page)
- Who we are?
- What we do?
- Locations (landing page)
- United Kingdom
- Ireland
The site structure is based on a menu, thus each page has its menu and most importantly parent menu item if it is not landing page. When visitor is viewing a landing page, the page consists of a text from landing page node and a list of first level sub-menu items with its description (views can't do this afaik).
Here is the landing page layout:
The only problem is, that in node/add form menu fieldset doesn't have description field. So user adding or editing a new content has to after content creation visit menu administration, select the menu item and edit description. Not a good workflow eh? :)
So first we need to use form_alter to add a description field to a menu fieldset:
<?php
/**
* Implementation of hook_form_alter(). Adds menu item fields to the node form.
*/
function mymodule_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
if (isset($form['#node']) && $form['#node']->type .'_node_form' == $form_id) {
$form['menu']['description'] = array(
'#type' => 'textarea',
'#title' => t('Description'),
'#default_value' => isset($form['menu']['options']['#value']['attributes']['title']) ? $form['menu']['options']['#value']['attributes']['title'] : '',
'#rows' => 1,
'#description' => t('The description displayed when hovering over a menu item.'),
);
$form['#submit'][] = 'mymodule_node_form_submit';
}
}
?>then, as you can see in the code above, we have our own form submit callback. Let's add that too:
<?php
function mymodule_node_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
$form_state['values']['menu']['customized'] = TRUE;
$form_state['values']['menu']['options']['attributes']['title'] = $form_state['values']['menu']['description'];
}
?>And that's it. Now in node/add form we have in menu fieldset a description field too. :)
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teasers
I can't quite understand how those aren't just teasers.
good question
as written in the post, the site structure is defined by menu system. so what we want to get below each landing page is a sub-level items based on parent menu.
in case of teasers, we will need to:
(custom code)
get the menu structure
get the nodes and output teasers
with just menus and using description field:
(custom code)
get the menu structure
most importantly we wanted to keep that menu item description there, in case ppl hover over it in the menu
and one more thing, teasers and menu description unfortunately arent same in our case, teaser is being used somewhere else
forgot the main issue, the
forgot the main issue, the sub pages doesn't have to be nodes! so it could be views for example.
Yep, this is confusing me :/
Yep, this is confusing me :/
Thanks for saving me an hour of coding!
Had this exact need on a site using UTF-8 multilingual strings for menu titles, but English translation for the tooltip (menu description field). By default, Drupal was nulling the descriptions set in the menu admin when a node was saved. Not nice.
Thanks again for allowing me to copy-paste instead of trying to find all the form keys!
help with drupal is
help with drupal is gr6...thanks..eep postign and helping others...
I think you should
I think you should definitely have landing pages on your websites. This really explains what you are all about.
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Very funny article writing about who we are and for what we are about.
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