A simple navigation menu

[Alexey Beshenov]

Hello,

I'm new to Hakyll and I'm trying to convert a simple website to it right now. I came across a rather standard issue, but I'm not sure about the way it can/should be solved in Hakyll.

(I think this issue is ignored in the example site that comes with the source.)

So let's say I have three pages foo, bar, baz, and I want to add to each page a menu like

  <ul>

    <li><a href="/foo.html">foo</a></li>

    <li><a href="/bar.html">bar</a></li>

    <li><a href="/baz.html">baz</a></li>

  </ul>

only WITHOUT adding a link to the page itself; e.g. foo.html should contain something like

  <ul>

    <li>foo</li>

    <li><a href="/bar.html">bar</a></li>

    <li><a href="/baz.html">baz</a></li>

  </ul>

and so on...

I thought it could be done in the template itself; however, the documentation seems to only mention checking if a key exists via $if(key)$ ... $else$ ... $endif$.

Thank you very much for any suggestions!

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With best regards,

Alexey

[Alexander Batischev]

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Hi!

On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 03:09:05PM -0700, Alexey Beshenov wrote:
>So let's say I have three pages foo, bar, baz, and I want to add to
>each
>page a menu like
> <ul>
> <li><a href="/foo.html">foo</a></li>
> <li><a href="/bar.html">bar</a></li>
> <li><a href="/baz.html">baz</a></li>
> </ul>
>only WITHOUT adding a link to the page itself; e.g. foo.html should contain
>something like
> <ul>
> <li>foo</li>
> <li><a href="/bar.html">bar</a></li>
> <li><a href="/baz.html">baz</a></li>
> </ul>
>and so on...

I don't have a worked example for this, but I can point you at a couple
features that will probably help with this.

First of all, templates support loops; see $for$ in [1].
With that, you can add a list of pages to its context, and then use
a loop to enumerate them. The example in the docs show how to construct
the context; you'll probably use `listFieldWith`[2] and filter out the
current page's address.

1. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hakyll-4.14.0.0/docs/Hakyll-Web-Template.html
2. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hakyll-4.14.0.0/docs/Hakyll-Web-Template-Context.html#v:listFieldWith

Then you'll need a way to enumerate the pages. For that, you can use
`getMatches`[3], and then for each identifier call `getRoute`[4] to get
the filenames. You can look at Hakyll.Web.Tags module (and various tags
tutorials) to see how this could work.

3. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hakyll-4.14.0.0/docs/Hakyll-Core-Metadata.html#v:getMatches
4. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hakyll-4.14.0.0/docs/Hakyll-Core-Compiler.html#v:getRoute

Hope this helps.

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Regards,
Alexander Batischev

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