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How To:Build a new menu (customize themes) moved to Build a new menu (customize themes) over redirect: removed invalid namespace

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== add a new menu ==
You will find the concerning PHP-code in the file "'''header.php'''". 
Because every theme has his own menu-system, we will show you the essential changes as an example for the theme "Cloudy". 
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. 
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. 
All the stuff from this Home-menu (plus his submenus) is enclosed between "<td>" and "</td>" -tags. 
Every next "<td>" ... "</td>" -bock encloses such a menu-icons with the concerning submenus. 
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, 
between two othes menu-icons, where you would place your new menu.

Before the copied code write this:


<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>


The result should be this:


<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>


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