how to gallery menu change to floating menu

[santoro]

I don't know the terminology, so I know how to call it. I think it's called "floating menu". To see what I mean by that, look on the attached jpeg.
Anyway, I want to have options "Last uploads, Last comments, Most viewed, Top rated and My Favorites" in this sort of "unpacking" menu. Can somebody tell me how to do this? Thanks for answer!!!
I am using theme Green Flower with vertical gallery menu on the left side.

[Joachim Müller]

That's usually not called "floating menu", but "dropdown menu". Moving your thread to the theme board.

[santoro]

Thanks. I hope somebody will help me

[santoro]

I find this html form so far:

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<select name="platform" size="1">
<option value="win">Windows
<option value="linux">Linux
<option value="unix">Unix
<option value="mac">Mac
</select>


But I still don't know 1) what should I write inside the quotation marks and 2) which Coppermine file should I edit. I only want to change "sub_menu" to this drop-down menu.

[adipisicing]

The HTML select element is a form control and is usually used to change values in form input; not to redirect the user to a different page. If you want it to do that kind of thing, the easiest way would probably be to use JavaScript, like the script at http://javascript.internet.com/navigation/jump-menu.html for example. If you're just starting out with HTML, I'd suggest doing that and ignoring the rest of this message.

The other way to do it would be to have something on the server that would take form input and redirect to the page you wanted (the value attribute of the option tag, "in the quotation marks" is the value that is sent to the server).

Although, it occurs to me that most of the links (Last Uploads, Last Comments, Most Viewed, Top Rated, and My Favorites) on the sub_menu are actually supplying different inputs to thumbnails.php, you could have a form that submited to thumbnails.php and have a select element change the album parameter.

[adipisicing]

And see http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=26897.0 for how to edit the HTML that is generated for {SUB_MENU}.

[santoro]

Thanks. Your answer was very helpful!
I just replaced "{SUB_MENU}" with this script. The links are not multilanguage anymore, but I think it works ok

[Joachim Müller]

Why don't you post your changed theme.php for the benefit of others with similar issues?

[santoro]

I didn't change theme.php. I changed theme.html. Fot others with same issue: just add this script anywhere you want it to have it (for me, it works fine):

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<script language="JavaScript">

function openDir( form ) {

var newIndex = form.fieldname.selectedIndex;

if ( newIndex == 0 ) {

alert( "Please select a location!" );

} else {

cururl = form.fieldname.options[ newIndex ].value;

window.location.assign( cururl );

}

}

</script>



<table width=100% cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 border=0>

<form name=form>

<tr>

<td nowrap>

<select name="fieldname" size="1"

onChange="openDir( this.form )">

<option>Jump To </option>

<option value=http://javascript.internet.com>JSS</option>

<option value=http://internet.com>internet.com</option>

</select>

</td>

</tr>

</form>

</table>


[santoro]

The links must be manually changed of course

[Joachim Müller]

I didn't change theme.php. I changed theme.html.

Oh really? There is no such file in Coppermine.

[adipisicing]

I'm assuming santoro meant template.html .