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Subject: Re: make menu easier to extend
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I would recommend just using unregistered plugins to get the job done:

site_base.html:
{% load app_plugins %}
{% block right_tab %}
    {% if user.is_authenticated %}
        <table>
            <tr>{% plugin_point "menu" %}</tr>
       </table>
    {% endif %}
{% endblock right_tab %}

templates/appname/plugins/menu.html:
{% extends "pinax/menu.html" %}
{% block tab_class %}rtab_tribes{% endblock tab_class %}
{% block tab_link%}<a href=3D"{% url tribes.views.tribes %}">{% trans
"Tribes" %}</a>{% endblock tab_link %}

templates/pinax/menu.html:
<td class=3D"tab {% block tab_class %}{% endblock %}"><div>{% block
tab_link %}{% endblock %}</div></td>


Then menu items will show up in whatever order they are listed in
INSTALLED_APPS
Not in installed apps? wont show up.
Want to add a menu item? add a template.

    -Doug


On Sep 19, 3:35=A0am, Eric Drechsel <ericd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I looked athttp://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/347/, which seems
> pretty nice for outputting menus with active links and such, but it
> doesn't address pluggability. However, since the main menu just =A0in
> settings.py, one could follow the pattern set by the url mapping
> system, and move the menu definition out into a global menu.py that
> includes from the menu.py from individual apps.
>
> the data structure in the snippet probably isn't quite right (does it
> support nested menus? need to look closer). there are some nice things
> about the data structure for the menu system in Drupal, might be a
> good starting point.
>
> On Sep 18, 1:46=A0pm, Eric Drechsel <ericd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm customizing Pinax, and I see that there is work to be done to make
> > the template structure easier to work with in customized sites.
> > Ideally it should be possible to customize the global "look" without
> > modifying Pinax's app templates, and to add new apps to main
> > navigation simply by following established conventions.
>
> > Unfortunately, the site-menu's active navigation tab markup is funky
> > to work around limitations of the template system without introducing
> > the concept of dynamic menus, and each new tab requires a line be
> > added to base.css, even though they all act the same.
>
> > I'd like to help work on making pinax easier to extend (primarily a
> > lack of documentation). This task seems like a good starting point in
> > Pinax for me, a newish Django developer. I'm posting to the list
> > rather than the tracker to solicit feedback from as wide a group as
> > possible. Have you found a great way to do extensible menus with
> > Django? A method exclusively using templates would be preferred,