[Zope3-Users] Menus

[Roger Ineichen]

Hi David

> Subject: [Zope3-Users] Menus
> 
> I am curious what methods people use to implements simple web 
> site menus?  It seems to be this must be a common task.
> 
> So far I've done this as follows:
> 1. Create a skin
> 2. Create a content type Menu as Ordered Container 3. Create 
> a content type MenuItem as contained by Menu 4. Add a Menu 
> and fill it with MenuItems 4. Register Menu 5. Create a macro 
> which returns the Menu using zapi.getUtility() 6. Use the 
> macro in the skin, and display all the MenuItems.

Take a look at the z3c package. We buil all our menus with
this concept. Even using the "menu id" pattern from Zope3 
is possible:

svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/z3c.menu/trunk/src/z3c/menu/simple

Regards
Roger Ineichen
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