[help]xtoc with limited amount of menu

[avangers]

I want a little help "how to limited amount of xtoc menu?" I will put the xtoc on top menu (horizontal), Because this area have limited lenght area I want to make-xtoc can display only max 5 or 7 menus items, and let the others show menus on the vertical menu (side menu) if I add 8th menu and so on. Someone give me an adviced to made ​​the dropdown menu on top menu, thats a good idea too, but I still want to make-xtoc can restricted amount of menu.
if anyone here can help me? I really appreciate it

best regards
Avangers

[cmb]

Hi Avangers,

it might be hard to modify xtoc() and toc() to do this, as these functions are already very complex. But there's a simple alternative (that requires more work though): hide the addtional top level pages from the menu, and create their menu structure manually in a newsbox, and call this newsbox in the template.

Or you might consider to restructure the page, so that you have only 5-7 top level pages. If necessary you can have more than 3 menu levels (Settings>CMS>Menu>Levels).

How to make horizontal drop down menus is shown on http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/dd_valid.html (perhaps you might try one of the other menus on Stu Nicholls' wonderful site).

Christoph

[svasti]

Hi Avangers

I once had to do something like this, i.e. a split menu, part horizontal, part vertical, see http://www.breuss-dorn-seminare.de.
If you click on "Inhaltsverzeichnis" (sitemap, in the vertical menu 3rd last item), you will see the sitemap and see, that in fact level 1 pages are in the horizontal and vertical menu.

xtoc didn't quite do the job for me, so I modified (quick-n-dirty) it a bit (could send you the code if you insist). May be one day I'll make a plugin from it.
xtoc as it is can add some additional headlines into the menu, but the menu will not be split into two menus. In my example, the menu is split into 3 menus. If I look into the template I find in different div's:

• <?php echo xtoc(1,1); echo xtoc(2); echo xtoc(3);?>
• <?php echo xtoc(1,3,2);
• <?php echo xtoc(1,3,3);

Now I have to remember how I did it

Of course Christoph's suggestion is also very good. In a way much easier ... however the sitemap will not show the links in the newsbox, and menumanager will have no effect on your secondary menu.

svasti