New dekiwiki menu

[shachr]

I want to develop "msdn" like menu.
a menu that will be always full.
i understood that there is a webservice i guess the rewrite rule sends this request:
http://site/@api/deki/site/nav/home/...son&width=1600

to some php file that does the work.

the questions are:
1. where is this file?
2. can i change it to get a full menu? if yes does it needs changes on nav.js?

thanks!

[crb]

Previously discussed in part in this thread. If you're seriously keen - fantastic! We'll all be very happy to help.

[shachr]

do you know where is the code that return the html of the menu?

[crb]

I don't myself - isn't it nav.js? Dig into the PHP and you'll find it. Or ask Guerric!

[Howleyda]

You will need to combine jQuery with the MindTouch API. You can get quite a lot of information using the subpages API. From there you should be able to build the navigation that you're looking for.

I have been working on a similar navigation that uses jQuery and the API to retrieve subpages via AJAX onclick. It is very important to use ajax so you don't overload your server by trying to load the entire hierarchy structure. Additionally JQuery XML parsing is really nice and takes a lot of the pain out of this process.

You can find more info about the subpages API here: http://developer.mindtouch.com/index.php?title=Deki/API_Reference/GETages%2F%2F{pageid}%2F%2Fsubpages.

We have discussed the MSDN navigation numerous times here so keep us posted on your progress.

[shachr]

yeah , it could be nice but the real thing will be to change the way dekiwiki produce the html cause when you call the api and ask for full you get dockedNode ..
i would like to always produce the home+children and sub children till i get the page ...
all the rest of the navigation can be ajax,jQuery or whatever so thats no the problem.
the problem is how i get html on php end that always return home+children+ all the path to the page i'm on.

10x!

[shachr]

- Home
- child 0
- child 1
- child 1.0
- child 1.1
- child 1.2
- child 1.2.0
- child 1.2.1
- child 1.2.2
- child 1.2.2
- child 1.2.2.0
- child 1.2.2.1 --- current page here
- child 1.2.3
- child 1.3
- child 2
- child 3

full tree with first children closed except the first child that holds the page.
that's what i try to achieve ...
at the moment it seems to me that i can only ask for home with 'full' at try to load on client side the current page im on.
i could regex on server side and try to change the html that i get but i dont think i want to do that. :-)

[shachr]

i've realized that the api is acctually cSharp.
and i've downloaded the source and found "DekiWikiService.GetNavigationFull" and "NavBL.GetNavigationFull"
now i can see that there are some if/continue on nodes that you dont want to show..
now i want to show always all the tree where only the current page path is open.

now i have a few questions...
basiclly i want to change the "NavBL.GetNavigationFull" to return all the tree instead of only what there is now.
the thing is i dont understand what the properties like:
IsTalk , IsTemplate , IsSpecial & IsMain
maybe someone from the mindthouch team can help we figure out how can i produce real full tree by changing the source and compile a new dll.

10!

[shachr]

10x!* :-) !

[shachr]

I've done it.
i have a full msdn navigation with ajax calls.
it was quite simple acctually.

changed methods:
----------------------------------------------------------------
DekiWikiService.GetNavigationFull (in DekiWiki-Nav.cs)
NavBL.QueryNavTreeData
NavBL.ComputeNavigationDocument

on the way i've changed some more methods on the NavDA.cs file, like:
NavDA.QueryNavTreeData
to get all the the the first paretns , sibilings/parents along the select path.

i also removed the "More" ("..." , this 3 dots that acctually hides pages and let you some sort of pagination)
by removing the calls to TruncateList in NavBL.ComputeNavigationDocument method.

another thing is to create a method to get the depth of the node,
you need acctually to escape the title and count the "/" and by doing soyou can add a new class to the nodes called, "depth_n" (n=depth), this way you can css it to make sure it looks good.

last things was creating a new js file to handle the new navigation.
so i've add this line to js.php file under "skins\common\js.php"
the line: $Js->addCommon('msdnNav.js');

basiclly it adds the new js file to the js cache file (you must clear the cache from : \skins\common\cache\)

i hope it will help you do the same thing . cause it looks good!
i also hope i havent forgot anything...