Admin-area with dropdown-menu

stm999999999 · Post by **stm999999999** » Thu May 21, 2009 3:04 pm

Wouln't it be better to be more flexible in the index.tpl?

instead

+            $title = ''.MANAGE_STYLES.' - '.SERENDIPITY_ADMIN_SUITE.'';
and
-        <title>{$CONST.SERENDIPITY_ADMIN_SUITE}</title>
+        <title>{$admin_vars.title}</title>

this:

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+            $admin_section = ''.MANAGE_STYLES.'';
and
-        <title>{$CONST.SERENDIPITY_ADMIN_SUITE}</title>
+        <title>{$admin_vars.admin_section} - {$CONST.SERENDIPITY_ADMIN_SUITE}</title>

so, an author of a backend theme can make

<title>{$CONST.SERENDIPITY_ADMIN_SUITE} - {$admin_vars.admin_section}</title>

or

<title>{$CONST.SERENDIPITY_ADMIN_SUITE} :: {$admin_vars.admin_section}</title>

stm999999999 · Post by **stm999999999** » Thu May 21, 2009 3:15 pm

onli wrote: 2. It's not easy to implement this, because the menus can get larger or smaller based on the installed plugins.

Do you meam my simyo-example? There are various numbers of sub-items, too. Or do you mean, that for hughe numbers of installed plugins the place of one line will not enough? But even if so, where is the technical problem? And in addition I think to many sub-items are no good usability, so we are one the other issue, the content-reorganisation of the menu-structur!

Don't you think that is not that important? People using serendipity does this more than once, so they will get the overview. For them, this is wasted space.

I do not think, that one single line is a significant waste of space. But I think people not so computer-affine as the normal havy blogger are grateful getting a little guideline.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Thu May 21, 2009 4:02 pm

Hi!

stm, yes, I agree, that would be even better! Only put the main item there, so the rest can be done in the template.

I don't really know the upload restrictions here in phpBB, I'm sorry. You should be able to upload .zip files in any case...

Regards,
Garvin

Post by **onli** » Thu May 21, 2009 5:17 pm

>But even if so, where is the technical problem?
If you do a float: left onto too many li-items, they will collide with something. That's a technical issue.
>Wouln't it be better to be more flexible in the index.tpl?
I don't think that such things should vary from admin-area to admin-area... anyway, it's just a small change.

Diff of the index.tpl:

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diff -Nur serendipity-nightly/templates/default/admin/index.tpl /var/www/templates/default/admin/index.tpl 
--- serendipity-nightly/templates/default/admin/index.tpl	2008-12-02 13:07:46.000000000 +0100
+++ /var/www/templates/default/admin/index.tpl	2009-05-21 17:23:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <html>
     <head>
 <!-- ADMIN-ENTRY TEMPLATE: index.tpl START -->
-        <title>{$CONST.SERENDIPITY_ADMIN_SUITE}</title>
+        <title>{$admin_vars.title} - {$CONST.SERENDIPITY_ADMIN_SUITE}</title>
         <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset={$CONST.LANG_CHARSET}" />
         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{$admin_vars.css_file}" />
         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{$admin_vars.admin_css_file}" />

serendipity_admin.php attached.

stm999999999 · Post by **stm999999999** » Thu May 21, 2009 6:33 pm

perhaps I found the solution to the horizontal menu on http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/pro_dropline.html

I made a dummy page with a slightly changed s9y-menu:

http://test.manske-net.de/Dropdown/pro_dropline.html

What do you think about it? (not for the colors and images, I mean the principle)

Post by **onli** » Thu May 21, 2009 6:54 pm

Although this probably would fix the issue, it's an approach tha author wants claim the copyright for. Which is quite absurd given german laws, but we should shouldn't rely on this. Maybe we should collect the possibilities and start a vote?

stm999999999 · Post by **stm999999999** » Thu May 21, 2009 8:32 pm

I think even on us-law this is no copyright issue (only an side: if software patents are lawful this possibily could be a candidate for a lawful patent registration)

But the best way would be simply to aks the author. I did not do this in the moment because I only want to get some reactions in the moment.

Post by **Don Chambers** » Thu May 21, 2009 8:44 pm

The author's original example works in IE6 (table - yuk!), but your s9y example does not. I did not take the time to find out why.

I also suggest you change your <title> element in that example as right now you seem to be duplicating the author's <title>, and I don't think you want the search engines indexing it that way - and I am pretty certain neither would the original author!

stm999999999 · Post by **stm999999999** » Thu May 21, 2009 8:58 pm

The author's original example works in IE6 (table - yuk!), but your s9y example does not. I did not take the time to find out why.

perhaps I cut too much - but in this context: Is it a goal to s9y to support every outdated browser? I know, we are conservative here (e.g. mysql versions ...) but here, too?

I also suggest you change your <title> element in that example as right now you seem to be duplicating the author's <title>,

done

stm999999999 · Post by **stm999999999** » Thu May 21, 2009 9:48 pm

Actualy I only want to write that the actual s9y menu-list has a structural error:

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 <ul class="serendipitySideBarMenu serendipitySideBarMenuEntry">
                        <li class="serendipitySideBarMenuHead serendipitySideBarMenuEntryLinks">Einträge</li>
                                                <li class="serendipitySideBarMenuLink serendipitySideBarMenuEntryLinks"><a href="serendipity_admin.php?serendipity[adminModule]=entries&serendipity[adminAction]=new">Neuer Eintrag</a></li>
                        <li class="serendipitySideBarMenuLink serendipitySideBarMenuEntryLinks"><a href="serendipity_admin.php?serendipity[adminModule]=entries&serendipity[adminAction]=editSelect">Einträge bearbeiten</a></li>
                        
                                                <li class="serendipitySideBarMenuLink serendipitySideBarMenuEntryLinks"><a href="serendipity_admin.php?serendipity[adminModule]=comments">Kommentare</a></li>

or as simple structur:

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 <ul>
   <li class="serendipitySideBarMenuHead>Entries</li>
   <li>new entry</li>
   <li>edit entries</li>
  ...

this ul-structure suggest that all these three points are on the same level. The statement ""Entries" is the top-item, the other are sub-items" is only given by the class of the first li.

strucural better:

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 <ul>
   <li>Entries
     <ul>  
        <li>new entry</li>
        <li>edit entries</li>
     </ul>
   </li>

  <li>next top item - eg. media
     <ul>  
        <li>add medai</li>
        <li>library</li>
     </ul>
   </li>
  ...

then the logical strucure is be reflected in the html-structure.

So, now I see that my find makes a structical error, too.

Every top-item is its own <ul>-Element! (s9y does this error, too)

But the whole menu is - logicaly - a single list of top and nestes sub-items!

I try to adopt the founded code now.

stm999999999 · Post by **stm999999999** » Fri May 22, 2009 12:08 am

ok, I found some other menu-code with a correct list-structure:

http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/pro-dropline-9.html#url

I adopt it to s9y-items:

http://test.manske-net.de/Dropdown/pro_dropline3.html

But, the appearance (colors, images, center instead of left-flotated) are not so good as
http://test.manske-net.de/Dropdown/pro_dropline.html - this fits better into the s9y-colors, IMHO.

But in the moment I have not the time to change this - but perhaps this can be a source of inspiration.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Fri May 22, 2009 10:23 am

Hi!

I've committed onli's patch for the admin_vars.title things. Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Garvin

blog.brockha.us · Post by **blog.brockha.us** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:49 pm

Is there already a version of this "tabbed" admin interface in the repo? I realy would like to test it.

Post by **Don Chambers** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:30 pm

blog.brockha.us wrote:Is there already a version of this "tabbed" admin interface in the repo? I realy would like to test it.

I don't think so - just the code posted here.

stm999999999 · Post by **stm999999999** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:49 am

blog.brockha.us wrote:Is there already a version of this "tabbed" admin interface in the repo? I realy would like to test it.

My versions are realy only proofs on concept, but onli's version can be found on topic start - just make a backup of the normal files and copy this ones here into your template.

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