Class: DropMenuItem

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DropMenuItem provides individual menu item facilities to the DropMenu class, which generates HTML and JavaScript for DHTML drop menus.

New in 1.0:

• Fixed some outdated javascript mouse tracking function references.

1     <?php
2     
3      $dropMenu = new DropMenu ('company', 10, 30);
4     
5      // set a background colour change on each item
6      $dropMenu->extraMouseOver = 'sdmSetBgcolor (\'_td_{layerID}\', \'#CCCCCC\')';
7      $dropMenu->extraMouseOut = 'sdmSetBgcolor (\'_td_{layerID}\', \'#FFFFFF\');
8     
9      $aboutItem =& $dropMenu->addItem ('About Us', '/index/about');
10     $aboutMenu =& $aboutItem->addChild ('about');
11    
12     $aboutMenu->addItem ('Corporate Profile', '/index/corporate');
13     $aboutMenu->addItem ('History', '/index/history');
14     $invItem =& $aboutMenu->addItem ('Investor Relations', '/index/investors');
15     $invMenu =& $invItem->addChild ('inv');
16     $invMenu->addItem ('Annual Report', '/index/annual_report');
17    
18     $aboutMenu->addItem ('Contact Us', '/index/contact');
19    
20     // create the drop menu divs
21     echo $dropMenu->write ();
22    
23     // next, we need the dropmenu.js file
24     echo '<script language="javascript1.2" src="/js/dropmenu.js"></script>';
25    
26     // we also need a javascript list of menus called menuList
27     echo '<script language="javascript1.2"><!--' . "\n";
28     echo "sdmMenuList = new Array ('" . join ("', '", $dropMenu->getList ()) . "');\n";
29     echo '// --></script>';
30    
31     // attach this drop menu to something visible on the page.
32     echo '<a href="/index/company" onmouseover="sdmShowAndHide(\'company\')">Company</a>';
33    
34     ? >

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$child =

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The child DropMenu object of this item.

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$direction =  'right'

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The direction of the drop menu this item is a part of. Used for inheriting to a child menu.

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$extraMouseOut =  ''

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Optional extra JavaScript to call when the item loses focus.

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$extraMouseOver =  ''

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Optional extra JavaScript to call when the item is in focus.

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$lineHeight =

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The height of this item and each item in its parent drop menu.

Used for inheriting to a child menu.

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$link =

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The URL to link this item to.

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$menuWidth =

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The width of the drop menu this item is a part of. Used for inheriting to a child menu.

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$menu_tpl =

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The menu template to use to generate child drop menus.

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$template =

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The template to use to generate the menu item.

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$text =

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The text of the menu item.

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$xpos =

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The x position of the drop menu this item is a part of. Used for inheriting to a child menu.

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$ypos =

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The y position of the drop menu this item is a part of. Used for inheriting to a child menu.

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constructor DropMenuItem [line 201]

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method addChild [line 276]

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method write [line 232]