UNDOCK NAVIGATION MENU MOODLE CODE

If you just want to use the block as a sort of 'accordion menu', you also need to alter this part: If you are using the block as a short of 'site map' (as I can see it), it makes sense that all the displayed items are hyperlinks. I am saying that because in Moodle 2.2 and Moodle 2.2+ (latest version), if you select to show all the modules, then when you click on each category item, it does not display any modules under that category (that was in the version I downloaded originally, maybe this has been solved in new version in the plug-ins database. I have noticed that, in the database, it is not stated if the plug-in is stable or not, because there was a discussion a while ago in regarding if the plug-ins database should only include stable versions or not. I am looking forward to testing the final version in the plug-in database. Sorry if you didn't understand my previous comments.

I am starting to look at the code now to understand how it works. I am totally sure that I haven't clicked on the category hyperlink to go to /category.php?id, just the category icon on the left hand side of the menu. When I say 'interfere', I mean, for instance: before logging in the Moodle site, if you select a category in order to display all the courses under that category, what the blocks does actually is to merge itself with the Navigation bar menu, that is, the Simple Navigation block disappears and the Navigation bar only shows the links to course categories, but not 'Courses for instance, or other elements in the Navigation menu.Īnother problem that I have noticed is: if you click on one of the categories, to display the list of courses under that categories, it goes to the page 'moodlesite/course/category.php?id=1', being id the id number of the selected category. The block shows the same kind of behaviour for Moodle 2.0 and Moodle 2.0: in general, it works well and displays the courses under the different categories and subcategories, but it is very flaky for some features:ġ) It doesn't work very well when you select show modules and, sometimes, it stops displaying courses if you select that option.Īs I have customised our theme for Moodle, I tried with different Moodle standard sites and I always have the same problem.Ģ) The block interferes with the standard Navigation bar, and I think that it is because it is using the same navigation objects. I tested exhaustively the 'Simple Navigation block' in Moodle 2.2 and Moodle 2.0 and these are my findings: If you have any further questions, just contact me again. We tried to override the navigation renderer, but it always affected the whole navigation object, so we decided not to use the navigation object as base for the block, but wrote some simple functions, that just render modules/courses/categories. (Users should always have the same links, logged in, or not logged in, but Moodle navigation block creates completely different views whether you are logged in or not.) and avoiding to have to learn and train all our colleagues to administrate 2 different CMS.īut the Moodle navigation block was not suitable for standard website navigation, so we programmed the simple navigation block.

Therefore we do not have to use another CMS like TYPO3, Drupal, etc. That means we use moodle courses with guest and autologin as normal webpages. The Moodle 2.X navigation block provides great navigation features, but our goal was to make it simpler, to have a block, that is used principally for the parts of our site, where no login is needed. I saw your block in the plugins database, but as it is only for 1.9, we decided to write a new one.

UNDOCK NAVIGATION MENU MOODLE CODE

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