View source for Build a new menu (customize themes)

== add a new menu ==
You will find the concerning PHP-code in the file "'''header.php'''". <br/>
Because every theme has his own menu-system, we will show you the essential changes as an example for the theme "Cloudy". <br/>
The "header.php" for "Cloudy" you will find in the following path: 

 /phpGedView/themes/cloudy/header.php

Open the file with a text-editor or with a html-editor.<br/>
Search for the first entry like:

 $my_temp_menu= array();

The following lines build the first menu-point in PGV, showed with the "Home"-icon.<br/>
All the stuff from this Home-menu (plus his submenus) is enclosed between "<td>" and "</td>" -tags. <br/>
Every next "<td>" ... "</td>" -bock encloses such a menu-icons with the concerning submenus.<br/>
A douzen menu-items are enclosed in a "<table>" ... "</table>" -tag.

In this table look for a code like this (for example the "charts"-menu):

             $menu = array();
             $menu["label"] = $pgv_lang["charts"];
             $menu["labelpos"] = "none";
             $menu["icon"] = $PGV_IMAGE_DIR."/".$PGV_IMAGES["pedigree"]["large"];
         if (file_exists("pedigree.php")) $menu["link"] = "pedigree.php";
             $menu["class"] = "menuitem";
             $menu["hoverclass"] = "menuitem_hover";
             $menu["flyout"] = "down";
             $menu["submenuclass"] = "submenu$ff";
             $menu["items"] = array();
 
         if (file_exists("pedigree.php")) {
             $submenu = array();
             $submenu["label"] = $pgv_lang["pedigree_chart"];
             $submenu["labelpos"] = "right";
             $submenu["icon"] = $PGV_IMAGE_DIR."/".$PGV_IMAGES["pedigree"]["small"];
             $submenu["link"] = "pedigree.php";
             $submenu["class"] = "submenuitem$ff";
             $submenu["hoverclass"] = "submenuitem_hover$ff";

With "copy and paste" take this code and put it between two <td>-blocks, <br/>
between two othes menu-icons, where you would place your new menu.

Before the copied code write this:

 <!-- here starts my new menu -->
     <td valign="middle" width="1" >
         <?php

Delete the two whole lines beginning with:

         if (file_exists("
                             
and behind the copied code write this:

             print_menu($menu);
         ?>
     </td>
 <!-- here ends my new menu -->

The result should be this:

 <!-- here starts my new menu -->
     <td valign="middle" width="1" >
         <?php
             $menu = array();
             $menu["label"] = $pgv_lang["charts"];
             $menu["labelpos"] = "none";
             $menu["icon"] = $PGV_IMAGE_DIR."/".$PGV_IMAGES["pedigree"]["large"];
             $menu["class"] = "menuitem";
             $menu["hoverclass"] = "menuitem_hover";
             $menu["flyout"] = "down";
             $menu["submenuclass"] = "submenu$ff";
             $menu["items"] = array();
 
             $submenu = array();
             $submenu["label"] = $pgv_lang["pedigree_chart"];
             $submenu["labelpos"] = "right";
             $submenu["icon"] = $PGV_IMAGE_DIR."/".$PGV_IMAGES["pedigree"]["small"];
             $submenu["link"] = "pedigree.php";
             $submenu["class"] = "submenuitem$ff";
             $submenu["hoverclass"] = "submenuitem_hover$ff";
             print_menu($menu);
         ?>
     </td>
 <!-- here ends my new menu -->

Now we learn, how you can change the essental lines for to do what you want to do. <br/>
You have the '''$menu'''-block, who build the upper-icon you will see on the PGV-page<br/>
and the '''$submenu'''-block, who build the popup-menu with the submenu-entries on the PGV-page.

Find an expressive '''label''' for every menu-entry, for example "my Family" and write it like this:

             $submenu["label"] = "my Family";

Design a '''new menu-icon''' with a drawing-program or you will find an existing one by Google.<br/> Store it with a new name for exemple "new-icon.gif" in the following path:

 /phpGedView/themes/cloudy/images/new-meu.gif

and call it in the code like this:

             $menu["icon"] = "themes/cloudy/images/menue.gif";

== Open an External Link ==

For to open an external link '''in the same browser-windows''':

 $submenu["link"] = "http://www.frappr.com";

For to open an external link '''in a new browser-windows''':

 $submenu["link"] = "http://www.frappr.com\" target=\"_blank\"";

For to open an external link '''in a popup-windows''':

 $submenu["link"] = "????";

== build a new HTML-text ==

== Open a HTML-Text ==

For to open a HTML-text '''between "header" and "footer"''':

...until now we don't have any solution for this...

We will need something like this:

 $submenu["link"] = "XYZ.php";

and "XYZ.php" should do something like this:

 <?php
     print header.php;
     print something.html, useing theme "Cloudy"
     print footer.php;
 ?>

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