Linking to a Tool in Nav Menu ?

[bsmither]

"Brian's code removed my other products as well."

 

In what way?

[Nik Grey]

The list of categories in the left hand side menu vanished - like this:

 

[bsmither]

It seems the regular expression looking for "Lettering" is way too greedy.

 

Let's try making it ungreedy...

 

Change just this part:

'#<li>.*title="Lettering".*</li>#s'

to:

'#<li>.*title="Lettering".*</li>#sU'

[Nik Grey]

Brian, I have just noticed something - when I paste this into the Snippet code area:

 

{php}
$lettering_tool_branch = array('url' => $GLOBALS['storeURL']."/index.php?_a=letter", 'name' => "Lettering Tool");
$GLOBALS['smarty']->assign('BRANCH', $lettering_tool_branch);
$navigation_tree .= $GLOBALS['smarty']->fetch('templates/element.navigation_tree.php');
$navigation_tree = preg_replace('#<li>.*title="Lettering".*</li>#s','',$navigation_tree);
$GLOBALS['smarty']->assign('NAVIGATION_TREE', $navigation_tree);
{/php}
 

 

When I save it - clear the cache and go back to check the code I notice it appears as this:

 

{php}
$lettering_tool_branch = array('url' => $GLOBALS['storeURL']."/index.php?_a=letter", 'name' => "Lettering Tool");
$GLOBALS['smarty']->assign('BRANCH', $lettering_tool_branch);
$navigation_tree .= $GLOBALS['smarty']->fetch('templates/element.navigation_tree.php');
$navigation_tree = preg_replace('#.*title="Lettering".*#s','',$navigation_tree);
$GLOBALS['smarty']->assign('NAVIGATION_TREE', $navigation_tree);
{/php}

 

 

The <li> and </li> are missing ?

 

But I added the 'U' regardless and it's now looking like this:

 

[bsmither]

Stupid Sanitation!

 

In the file /classes/sanitize.class.php, line 30, add 'php_code' and a comma to the array:

private static $exempt = array('php_code', 'description', ....

 

CubeCart is sending the content through a PHP filter that strips out certain, supposedly dangerous, things.

 

@Al, please add the snippet['php_code'] key to the array of exempt keys in the sanitize class.

[Nik Grey]

There must have been other characters that I missed as just pasted the original code in again and its much better - that >Lettering menu item that did nothing has gone.

 

So just adding the above 'php_code', worked

 

My Mugs are missing from the menu though..lol.

[bsmither]

So! Still need to fine-tune the preg_replace().

[Nik Grey]

Let's do it - I'm loving this, learning.. and also it's all here if I need it again

[bsmither]

Well, it seems that discovering the regex pattern code to do this properly will take me about a week to learn. So let's try a different approach.

 

We will explode the string at the <li> sequence into an array, look for the array element with Lettering, remove that array element, then implode the array back into a string.

{php}
$lettering_tool_branch = array('url' => $GLOBALS['storeURL']."/index.php?_a=letter", 'name' => "Lettering Tool");
$GLOBALS['smarty']->assign('BRANCH', $lettering_tool_branch);
$navigation_tree .= $GLOBALS['smarty']->fetch('templates/element.navigation_tree.php');
$navigation_tree_array = explode("<li>", $navigation_tree);
foreach($navigation_tree_array as $navigation_tree_key => $navigation_tree_val) {
  if (strpos($navigation_tree_val, 'title="Lettering"') !== false) unset($navigation_tree_array[$navigation_tree_key]);
}
$navigation_tree = implode("<li>",$navigation_tree_array);
//$navigation_tree = preg_replace('#<li>.*title="Lettering".*</li>#sU','',$navigation_tree);
$GLOBALS['smarty']->assign('NAVIGATION_TREE', $navigation_tree);
{/php}

[Nik Grey]

Good Lord, it only WORKS !

 

I want to understand how though, I will re-visit this first thing today.

 

 

I can add things to the Cart that's what I mean by working as well as the products appearing in the Nav bar most pleased - Thanks Brian.