Courses and course formats

Already created functions under course lib to build the tree: you could also build the tree using an xml file but konqueror cannot handle those xml calls so.. i went back to building the tree using javascript..

function print_xtree_start($treename){
    echo chr(13)."".chr(13);
    /// Define look and feel for the tree.
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.rootIcon = "../xtree/images/xp/folder.png";".chr(13);
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.rootIcon = "../xtree/images/xp/folder.png";".chr(13);
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.openRootIcon = "../xtree/images/xp/openfolder.png";".chr(13);
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.folderIcon = "../xtree/images/xp/folder.png";".chr(13);
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.openFolderIcon = "../xtree/images/xp/openfolder.png";".chr(13);
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.fileIcon = "../xtree/images/xp/file.png";".chr(13);
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.lMinusIcon = "../xtree/images/xp/Lminus.png";".chr(13);
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.lPlusIcon = "../xtree/images/xp/Lplus.png";".chr(13);
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.tMinusIcon = "../xtree/images/xp/Tminus.png";".chr(13);
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.tPlusIcon = "../xtree/images/xp/Tplus.png";".chr(13);
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.iIcon = "../xtree/images/xp/I.png";".chr(13);
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.lIcon = "../xtree/images/xp/L.png";".chr(13);
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.tIcon = "../xtree/images/xp/T.png";".chr(13);
    echo "webFXTreeConfig.blankIcon = "../xtree/images/blank.png";".chr(13);
    echo "var tree = new WebFXTree("$treename");".chr(13);
    echo "tree.setBehavior("classic");".chr(13).chr(13);

}

function print_xtree_item($indexitem,$itemid,$itemtext,$action="",$parent="",$icon="",$openicon=""){
    ///make sure parent is sent as a reference if its not empty
    if( $parent != ""){
       echo "var $itemid = new WebFXTreeItem('$itemtext','$action',$parent,'$icon','$openicon');".chr(13);
    }
    else{
       echo "var $itemid = new WebFXTreeItem('$itemtext','$action','$parent','$icon','$openicon');".chr(13);    
    }
    echo "$indexitem.add($itemid);".chr(13);
}


function print_xtree_end(){
    echo "document.write(tree);".chr(13);
    echo "".chr(13);
}

print_xtree_start();

print_xtree_start("TEST1301");

// add an item to the main tree

print_xtree_item("tree","folder","anytext","url",parent,"iconPath","closedIconPath");
     
// add an item to the folder
       print_xtree_item("folder","item1","item1text","url",parent,"iconPath","closedIconPath");

print_xtree_end();

Alexis, that looks very nice. Why don't you attach the code to a forum post as a zip file to start with?

Will the menu remember which folders were expanded on a user's previous visit to the course home page? How does it do that?

Is there anything in your code that makes it specific to the topics format or would it work equally well with the weekly format?

That appears to have made no difference. I still get a javascript error in line 141 character 5 saying:

Error: Expected Identifyer
Code: 0

The line is

var nameweekstree1 = new WebFXTreeItem('I have copied this to a html r...','http://aim.york.ac.uk/moodle/course/view.php?id=7&;nameweekstree=1','','','');

You should add addslashes() around all strings that you print to the menu and that could potentially contain single quotes. There are many such places in course/lib/xtree.php.

Your menu is currently showing hidden sections in the same way as unhidden ones. Hidden sections and activities should not be shown to students and should be greyed out for teachers.

In IE6 for some reason some of the menu items are blue and others are black. I can see no particular rhyme to it. See for yourself on the attached screenshot. Do you have any idea what might be causing this? In Netscape all items are black until the mouse hovers over them when they turn blue which I guess was the intended behaviour.

By the way: the hidden week 1 shows up at the top of the menu but not as a folder.