Update drupal menu links

12690
Reporter: mdoering
Assignee: cvizitiu
Type: Improvement
Summary: Update drupal menu links
Priority: Minor
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Closed
Created: 2013-02-04 12:45:46.4
Updated: 2013-09-02 13:46:35.619
Resolved: 2013-02-04 17:49:38.473
        
Description: we need to link from the drupal menus to the real UAT pages of the java portal, not the current data portal. Expected urls:
http://uat.gbif.org/portal/dataset
http://uat.gbif.org/portal/species
http://uat.gbif.org/portal/occurrence]]>
    

Author: cvizitiu@gbif.org
Comment: Done, could be closed. 
Created: 2013-02-04 16:33:01.758
Updated: 2013-02-04 16:33:01.758

Author: bko@gbif.org
Comment: I assume this change is in the database?
Created: 2013-02-04 16:34:35.588
Updated: 2013-02-04 16:34:35.588

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2013-02-04 16:39:11.9
Updated: 2013-02-04 16:39:11.9
        
its here: http://code.google.com/p/gbif-portal/source/detail?r=1347

for the version running on staging now it should actually be a different base URL http://staging.gbif.org:8080/portal-web-dynamic/

staging.gbif.org:8080/portal-web-dynamic/dataset
staging.gbif.org:8080/portal-web-dynamic/species
staging.gbif.org:8080/portal-web-dynamic/occurrence

Would be nice if that base URL is configurable, maybe we need to use it in various other places too?
    

Author: bko@gbif.org
Comment: the base URL is configurable in the settings.php as $base_url. The site folder needs to be renamed accordingly.
Created: 2013-02-04 16:41:21.897
Updated: 2013-02-04 16:41:21.897

Author: cvizitiu@gbif.org
Created: 2013-02-04 16:51:27.065
Updated: 2013-02-04 16:51:27.065
        
Nope, sorry! :-( The menus themselves are plain static html in the template file (html.tpl.php); at least for the moment.

I've had a first attempt at producing the menus from a dictionary but it's more effort that it's worth it right now IMHO; Yes I know you favor superfish; yet in superfish the menu consists of one 
 and 
 for each block with sub-menus as 
; and this is how it should be. Now please have a look at the original Visuallity HTML template.  *EACH of the three blocks is a separate 
 enclosed in a 
 with a different class*!! :-o

So it was a choice between PHP to extract the content for each of the drop down lists manually so to speak OR an uphill battle against the menu generating engine in Drupal to shut down all html and classes generating so that I output different HTML and classes for each block. I chose the easiest path for the moment. :-( Please let me know if you consider the DB based implementation to be of high priority, I'll give it another try.


    

Author: bko@gbif.org
Created: 2013-02-04 16:59:44.933
Updated: 2013-02-04 16:59:44.933
        
No worries, Cip! Markus answered my question with the links. I was assuming by updating the issue I can see code change as well, just like I have on Google Code. Only recently I am looking at how it works on JIRA.

I am not in favour of superfish. Actually I think it's a bit heavy. That was just my tryouts on the Drupal theme I did last Apr.

I have no preference for now. You are the person who develops it and maintain it.
    

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2013-02-04 17:18:48.499
Updated: 2013-02-04 17:18:48.499
        
Ive got no problem with keeping it in the code like this, Cip.
Just that we will probably need to keep two versions running, one static, public UAT master which contains all the real accounts, news etc and one staging version which should run on a different backend and have different URLs and can be updated as we develop. 
    

Author: cvizitiu@gbif.org
Comment: Markus, it's crystal clear what you mean. I've added a simple theme setting to define $dataportal_base_url and used that variable to generate the menu, check it out. Should do for the moment, don't you think? It's in the theme settings page right at the bottom. 
Created: 2013-02-04 17:30:41.43
Updated: 2013-02-04 17:30:56.473

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Comment: nice
Created: 2013-02-04 17:49:31.012
Updated: 2013-02-04 17:49:31.012