I have created a navigation bar plugin for my current project. I don't think it's that good but if you have a need for it I will make it available. Basically it is a modification of ewiki_format to alter the list behavior along with some css tricks to support the creation of buttons based on a wiki page and entirely without graphics.

This is what it looks like on the "specs" page of my site:

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It sounds very interesting, and well it looks so quite more!

As this feature seems to work again, you could upload your plugin here - or we could put up some sort of ExtensionRepository to collect newly created plugins. milky

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The way I'm doing this is sort of not ready for prime time. What I'm doing is:

1. using ewiki_page normally to parse the URL and get the name.
2. within ewiki_page storing the parsed out name in $GLOBALS*'pageName' -- but only if it is parsed and not passed to ewiki_page

<ul class=*NavBarDepth1>

<p> <li><a href="/wiki/index.php/Home+Page">*HomePage</a></li> <li class='activebutton'><a href="/wiki/index.php/Solutions">Solutions</a></li> <div class='subbar'><ul class=*NavBarDepth4>

</ul></div> <div class='subbar'><ul class=*NavBarDepth3> </ul></div> <div class='subbar'><ul class=*NavBarDepth2> </ul></div> <li><a href="/wiki/index.php/News">News</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/index.php/Support">Support</a></li> </p> </ul>

To me this whole process looks ugly so I'm hoping someone will look at the pseudo code above and add some suggestions before I release the even uglier real code.

I also have a bunch of CSS code to do the formating and make Mozilla and IE equally happy with it. You may notice above that I'm using a hack in ewiki_page to get the page's title into $GLOBALS['pageName'], is there a better way?

• AndyFundinger

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See also:

*2'nd NavigationBarFragment