24365Tree-Style Documentshttp://www.softky.com/TreeDoc/index.php3A typical document is structured heierarchically, with a main body, sections, sub-sections, footnotes, and so on--like a "tree," with a root, some branches, and many leaves. Yet we don't read it that way on the Web; instead, we typically read documents either as one big long page with numbered subsections, or as a collection of separate web pages, each one completely erasing the other when a link is selected.PHP > Scripts and Programs > Site NavigationOct 15, 2006
php.mnu is an easy to use site navigation module that can be incorporated into any website. Changes to the php.mnu navigation menu are done with an easy to use admin-page. No webdesign or programming skills are required to maintain the menu. The navigation menu can be displayed as text-only version or with graphical buttons to fully integrate into your website. Graphical menu buttons are dynamicly build by the php.mnu script and will display the required text on the buttons, no need to use graphics software each time you want to add a button to your php.mnu navigation menu!
1) unlimited depth, though you can set a limit
2) makes only one SQL query to draw the tree
3) draws all the ascending branches
4) you can easily add it to your scripts
5) UltraTree generates compact HTML
6) fast - as this static example shows, UltraTree generated a tree with 500 categories with a maximum depth of 14 in 0,6 sec on AMD K6-2 300Mhz with 64MB RAM (Zend 4.0.4 w/o the Optimizer
Users arrive at a Web site with different agendas. Some wander through the site like window shoppers, while others are on a mission to find a critical piece of information. Whether it is a trade contact, a foreign literature review, a chemical formula, or song lyrics of the 1960s, these people know what they want and they want to find it fast. No matter how well your site is designed, not everyone knows how to get to the right topic by following links. For such specific needs, the prearranged links on your site may seem too cumbersome to use. Cross references between similar topics are particularly hard to link together since you can't always predict what people want to see first.
This file illustrates the way to include navigation dynamically to streamline your efficiency when updating your website. The code shows how to include navigation both with a text-based navigation and an image-based navigation. The code also includes a focus on XHTML and CSS compliance to W3C standards.
This PHP class can be used to generate dynamic DHTML horizontal menus. The implementation is very simiple and can be modified with ease.
It uses CSS for easy deployment.
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