Ektron CMS400.NET Developer Reference Manual

Custom PHP Functions
you display menu options that link to content blocks, library assets,
external hyperlinks and submenus.
To learn more about menus, please refer to the “Menu Feature”
chapter of the Ektron CMS400.NET User Manual.
Additional Documentation in Ektron Knowledge Base
This chapter explains how to implement standard menus that ship
with Ektron CMS400.NET. Ektron’s Web site also provides
Knowledge Base articles that explain how to extend the standard
menu features.
Displaying a Menu on a Web Page
GenerateMenu and DropMenu
IMPORTANT!
The menu functions described below are only one example of how to implement
menus. You can implement your own menu system using JavaScript.
Use the GenerateNextGenMenu and DropNextGenMenu custom
functions to display a DHTML menu on a Web page. Place
GenerateNextGenMenu once on the page to provide an infrastructure
for DropNextGenMenu. Then, place DropNextGenMenu as needed to
implement individual menus.
Follow these steps to display a menu on a Web template.
1. Place the following code directly after the page’s tag.
For example:
To display more than one menu, separate each id number with
a comma. For example:
2. If the user clicks text to display the menu, place the following
code within the template file where the text would appear.
"
For example:
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