I am experimenting with Moode 2 and have downloaded the Arctic theme. I have created customised drop-down menus for the front page but what I would like to do is create a clone of the front page theme for each of the courses /categories and then create course-specific drop-down menus rather than the site-wide drop-down menu items that were on the home page.
Is this posible and, if so, how.
Thanks
David
It would certainly be possible to create clones of the main theme, renamed in all the relevant places, with customised menus for each course and then apply a specific theme to each course, although this would seem a rather cumbersome, but workable way of achieving the aim.
Possibly someone with a bit more coding knowledge within Moodle may be able to suggest a conditional statement to test the courseid and select an appropriate menu file with the customised menu.
However, have you considered the alternative of keeping the site wide drop down menus as they are and using the Topic0 section of the course to provide the internal course-specific navigation?
Richard
This can't be done with the Moodle custom menu the way it is coded at present, although I suspect it could be made to work like you want it without having to 'clone' the theme.
Basically, to make the custom menu work, the way you want it to, first it will need some id selectors adding to the various parts of the menu structure. And then some code putting in the renderer.php to govern the way it works. Easier said than done.
Making clones wont solve anything, as the custom menu is site wide, so what's in the menu will be written into the d/down menu on whatever page your site dictates it should be available in.
You could create a new layout page for course/category (you only need to make one) but it would have to be declared in the Arctic's config.php file.
This layout could have a separate (manual) dropdown menu which could be included into the course/category page. This would follow the same structure of the YUI dropdown menu in Base YUI (Moodle 1.9 Theme) by Patrick Malley.
Depending on what you want to add to each course/category page would need to be determined as it could be quite a time consuming thing to create.
What Richard suggest might be a better option. As all you would need to do is add the basic structure of the menu a an unordered list and then add some style to it in the css file for the theme.
You might like to look at the type of menus you could use HERE.
Hope this helps?
Mary
Thanks for the help - It look as though the Topic 0 menu items might be the most sensible way to go.
David
Hi David,
Just tried this out using the Pure CSS Hover list from Mary's suggested link, although the principle would be the same whichever list you choose, or writing your own from scratch.
Obviously you will need to manually edit the menus for each course, but the css file will give them a consistent look across the site, which you would need to create by editing the css given to achieve the style you want.
Hope that helps
Richard
Hi David,
With the new theming it is possible to override renderers in a theme. If you are fairly comfortable with PHP it is possible to override the function render_custom_menu().
You could then program it to draw a menu to your own specs wherever that theme is used.
Following the instructions here http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Themes_2.0_overriding_a_renderer I have a theme that has a custom menu and a custom breadcrumb trail by overriding the function navbar().
Hello
Is it possible to hide the custom menu before login?
thanks
Yes it is Nyree.
In the layout files (frontpage.php, general.php, default.php - depending on your theme) you would need to chasnge theline with echo $custommenu to be wrapped in an if statemnt
. If you can tell me what theme you are using I will try to be specific and give you the actual code to use. in that theme
Richard
Thanks for replying Richard,
I'm using the formal white theme
Nyree
Hi Nyree,
In formal white, the bit you are looking for is this
<?php if ($hascustommenu) { ?>
<div id="custommenu"><?php echo $custommenu; ?></div>
<?php } ?>
which needs to be changed as below in both the general.php and the frontpage.php
<?php if ($hascustommenu) { ?>
if (isloggedin()){ <div id="custommenu"><?php echo $custommenu; ?></div>}
<?php } ?>
Richard
Hi Richard
Thanks for this...
I did what you said in both files:
<!-- begin of custom menu -->
<?php if ($hascustommenu) { ?>
if (isloggedin()){ <div id="custommenu"><?php echo $custommenu; ?></div>}
<?php } ?>
<!-- end of custom menu -->
but I still have the menu and a bit of the code appearing (see attached)
Should there be something else before the 'if'?
Nyree
Sorry Nyree, my mistake - you need to move the <?php....?> tags as well, as the if statement is also php code - the bits I've highlighted in red need to be deleted and the bits in green added
<!-- begin of custom menu -->
<?php if ($hascustommenu) { ?>
if (isloggedin()){ ?> <div id="custommenu"><?php echo $custommenu; ?></div> <?php }
<?php } ?>
<!-- end of custom menu -->
So that it looks like this (I've split the lines as well to show the nesting of the if statements more clearly)
<?php if ($hascustommenu) {Sorry for the confusion caused - trying to do this with only intermittent internet access, my failing memory and no webserver at the moment
Richard
Any one can help to customise course subcategory inmoodle 2.1.2
i would like to change font size and colour of sub-category and use some image in front. i dont know where to change.
i have looked in to core file course/category.php that display course and sub-category list but no clue to change where.
$catlinkcss = $subcategory->visible ? '' : ' class="dimmed" ';
echo '<a '.$catlinkcss.' href="category.php?id='.$subcategory->id.'">'.
format_string($subcategory->name, true, array('context' => get_context_instance(CONTEXT_COURSECAT, $subcategory->id))).'</a><br />';
i want to make like
insted of
thanks
Hi,
You would do this by changing the CSS in the theme.
But as all the CORE themes use BASE theme the need to carry the CSS for categories/courses is minimised so you may not even find the CSS you need, in your temes's style directory.
The best thing to do is to use Firebug this will enable you to find the CSS you need then all you have to do is copy it and paste to the end of the core.css for your theme (if core.css exists).
HTH
Mary
