Posting the menu contents in one page?

[kelemvor]

I am in need of creating a "SiteMap" of our website that follows the menu structure I have created. Is there any way to do this via the Menu itself? Basically putting everyone on one page with all the menu optoins and sub optiosn arrange just as they would look if you expanded every option on the menu at once?

Something like:

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Menu1
Menu2
    Menu2a
    Menu2b
Menu3
Menu4
    Menu4a
    Menu4b
        Menu4b1
        Menu4b2
Menu5

etc...

[John]

I'm not aware of any menu option that will do this for you. However, looks like you've got a pretty good start on it...

[kelemvor]

Yeah it's something I could do by hand, but then I have to update it every time I make a change to the menu. I'm looking for something that when a person goes to the "Site Map" page, it would read in the menu and write it out as in my example based on the current data in the menu_data file.

We rearrange things so often it's very tedius to have to manually go update our one page all the time. I'd be really cool if the Milonic menu could do it automatically.

[John]

Kevin might come up with a JS to handle it. Stay tuned...

[kelemvor]

If someone can create this, that'd be great. I'll have to just write it up by hand now since I don't know how to create somethign like this on my own. heh heh.

But I'll stay tuned...

[Martin]

An other idea might be in using php. With php you could parse your menu-file, extract the data and output the data in anchor tags.

It's not a good idea to use the dhtml-menu for a sitemap. Spiders and Search engines can not read js.

[NineNine]

I was looking for an option to do this also, and I haven't found one, so I'm writing my own for my ASP based site. I'm almost done... If anyone's interested in an ASP solution, please let me know via this forum.

[kelemvor]

If it will be able to go through the actual Menu_Data file (or whatever it's called) and pull out the data and create a Site Map type thing, then I'm definitely interested. Would like to see a sample when you get it working.

[NineNine]

Actually, I started working on it, and I decided that for speed for my particular website, it's gonna have to be a VB based app that dumps the structure into a database table, (the app will be scheduled to run daily)then the site map will build from that via ASP. I realized that I need the structure in a database for one of my outgoing data feeds. So, I'll be able to post the two, but it probably won't be useful for too many people other than myself, unless somebody wants to rip out the underlying logic that parses the menu_data.js file and re-do their own app.