Nuke Resources - Tree-menu Block for PHP-Nuke

Hello nukers,

have you felt the need for a flexible menu block, perhaps as a replacement of the Modules block? Then the newly released Treemenu Block may be right for you.
Click on the read more link for more details.

A commonly asked question in PHPNuke forums is if there exists some Module block out there that displays a dynamic view of the available modules. The webmaster needs a functionality that will allow for the display of only certain module links, depending on, say, the interests, access level, or preferences of the viewer. What is needed is a module block that displays some links (to modules, or generally, to pages) when a certain condition is met (say, when Category A was previously chosen) and some other ones when a different condition is true (e.g. when Category B was chosen).
To met these requirements, I have adapted the well-known Treemenu concept to a PHP-Nuke Block. I have created a PHP-Nuke block containing a Treemenu. It will look like this:

http://www.karakas-online.de/myTreemenu/images/treemenu.png
When the user clicks on an item like "Links", the sub-tree under this item is unfolded:
http://www.karakas-online.de/myTreemenu/images/treemenu1.png
and so on.

Tree-menu is a PHP class created by Bjorge Dijkstra and adapted by Denny Shimkoski. I have fixed some bugs in the version of the latter and incorporated it in a PHPNuke Block.
There are two ways you can use the Tree-menu class - I use the one that takes as input a simple text file and creates a tree menu, in a style that most users are familiar with from a graphical file manager.
And of course, you may tweak it very easily to display multiple Tree-menus, or dynamic ones using a criterion of your choice. Thus, you can display one Tree-menu when the user chose, say, Category A, and a different one for Category B. See

http://www.karakas-online.de/myTreemenu/refinements.html#AEN450
You control the tree structure of your menu from a simple text file, see
http://www.karakas-online.de/myTreemenu/what-is-treemenu.html#INPUT-FILE-METHOD

Of course, this is only a quick and easy solution. If your menu has to change very often, you will need some kind of database support here. But for a lot of purposes this solution is perfectly acceptable.

You can get Treemenu Block at
http://www.karakas-online.de/phpnuke/block-Treemenu.tgz
Just extract it in the blocks directory and activate it. It comes with a sample sitemap text file. But you should also read the detailed documentation at
http://www.karakas-online.de/myTreemenu/t1.html
which may be read online, or downloaded in various formats (HTML, PDF, PS, RTF, TXT...) from
http://www.karakas-online.de/myTreemenu/introduction.html#FORMATS
Let me just add a big Thank You to Bjorge Dijkstra and Denny Shimkoski for creating and improving the Treemenu PHP class, which is used in this PHPNuke block.

Regards
Chris