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saving menu for insertion across site

Asked 18 Oct 2011 00:19:09
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18 Oct 2011 00:19:09 Kathy Stroud posted:
Hi. I need to create anew menu and insert it site-wide. How do I d this easily?
Thanks.[:I]
Kathy

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Replied 18 Oct 2011 10:08:05
18 Oct 2011 10:08:05 Teodor Kuduschiev replied:
Hello Kathy,

There are two ways of using the Universal Navigation menu to insert it in your site:
- Use it in a template and update all of the pages from the main template file.
- Use it as an included file e.g. in php:
<?php require_once ("path_to_your_menu_file.php"); ?>


In order to use it as a included file on your pages you need to do the following:

1. Open a blank new page
2. Insert the menu and style it
3. Switch to code view and cut all of the menu code that is between <body></body> tags and paste it in an absolutely blank file e.g.: your_menu_file.php /When i say absolutely blank file i mean - create a new file and delete everything in it in code view/
4. Cut the menu css files and js files in the <head></head> tags and paste it in the <head></head> tags on the pages that will use the menu as an include
After that when you open the your_menu_file.php file and edit/save the changes will affect all of your pages that use it as an include.
Replied 18 Oct 2011 15:22:34
18 Oct 2011 15:22:34 Kathy Stroud replied:
Thanks so much. I was hoping to avoid the template route as the pages are already done and the menu is changing rather often.
I'll try the php route although I don't feel especially competent in that area!
Replied 18 Oct 2011 16:21:00
18 Oct 2011 16:21:00 Teodor Kuduschiev replied:
Hello Kathy,

Please check the video tutorial: www.dmxzone.com/go?19195
Replied 07 Dec 2011 00:02:23
07 Dec 2011 00:02:23 Baub Eis replied:
How about a .asp version...
Replied 07 Dec 2011 09:42:46
07 Dec 2011 09:42:46 Teodor Kuduschiev replied:
The same as in the video tutorial but use:
<!--#include file="yourincludefile.asp" -->
Replied 07 Dec 2011 23:02:35
07 Dec 2011 23:02:35 Kathy Stroud replied:
As a designer and a half-baked coder, I really wanted to use the DW library. I didn't completely work. Do you have any tips on that? I already have the library version on all pages but they won't update consistently. I would try the other ways, and will if I must, but I'm working with 200 pages.

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