Topic awaiting preservation: Database-Driven Menu branch..thing (Page 1 of 1)

http://www.cirkadia.com/iNavigateNew.html

Ok first, does anyone know the name of that type of menu on the left there?

I want something similar but for database driven content.

This is the deal. We have a over 1000 products on the site and really need to show each product on the sitemap. thats a long page, and anything below the product links probably won't get notice because no ones going to scroll that far

Does anyone know a script/program that would allow us to hook up our database/code in some ASP that would generate the top level info, and allow the user to open and close each area.

Any better ideas on how to handle this would be welcome as well
Thank You.
TheDPQ


Self-Mutilation: The Fun and Easy Way To Prove You're Stupid

I can't say you'll get much ASP help round here but I do have a suggestion for you.

Those kind of menu's are uaualy javascript driven. Each menu option in the navagation tree is defined when the page loads but only the top level options are shown to start with. It's basically just hiding and showing layers etc...

I've seen similar scripts around for download before but I'm not rightly sure where. You might have better luck finding help with this in the DHTML/Javascript Forum.

As for generating the menu options from a database you could have a DB Table with all of the menu options and their associated links. Then you should be able to populate the JS menu from there with DB queries table depending on which links you wish to show on each page. Or if the menu will remain exactly the same you could do away with the DB and simple make it a hard coded include.

The hard part would come with modifying the javascript code so you could generate each option from DB queries. Depending on how the JS is written though, this may actualy be quite simple.

Hang on, I didn't realise that the link you provided actualy was a site with one of those menu secipts for download. I was only looking at the menu itself.

They offer a free download so I say you should download it then rip it appart and go from there

Yah i had tried that prior to posting this message, but it gives me an error when i run the program, thas not a good sign.
Thanks for your help


Self-Mutilation: The Fun and Easy Way To Prove You're Stupid

I wrote this sitemap page:
http://www.tcsu.umn.edu/sitemap.php

It uses a highlighting scheme which I decided just doesn't work as a design concept and plan to replace with overLIB messages. The benefit of this code is that it is simple, but it would need some work to make multiple levels... doesn't work in NN4 either.

-jiblet