Milonic JavaScript Menu

NavBuildStyles Explanation:


This basically just selects all of the styles I defined in the database, and loops through them, outputting text in the same format that the milonic_data.js file would be. For me, there is only one style but if I add more I won't have to change any code - this will ...

Javascript Explanation:


As in the milonic examples, the first two lines are includes to milonic_src.js and mmenudom.js (my users only use IE so I don't use that conditional statement to decide between the IE menudom file and the NS file)

Then these 4 lines, not quite sure what they do but they ...

Table Explanations:

Navitems has one record for each link in your menus. itemid is the unique identifier for that link. menuid associates that link with a menu in the Navmenus table. text is the text for that link, and url is the url. pretty easy so far.

Navmenus has one record for each menu. id ...

I use sql server and asp, but you could do this with any technology. This post will contain the code, and I will post another that has some explanation.

Table Structure:

Navitems
itemid int primary key identity,
menuid int,
text varchar,
url varchar

Navmenus
id int primary key identity ...

I have implemented this in asp, if anyone is interested I will post the code. It assumes an existing user login scheme of some sort where user access rights are controlled via the database. All Milonic examples I saw are for static menus where everyone can see every option. Even the database example ...