Help to change nav entry array in XG_moduleHelper (for rearranging page tabs)

[Christine Crowstaff]

Hi there
I read a link which said you can change the order of tabs as below.

One way to reorder your tabs is to change the $navEntries array on that function, this solution requires the source code and some PHP knowledge (and stop the automatic updates)

Can anyone help me understand more what I have to do to get this to work.
I tried and managed to rearrange the tab names but the tabs when clicked didn't go to the pages!

Also have tried the java hack to do this but that wouldnt work either!

Thanks in advance

Chris

Here is the code from the php file - I have bolded my comments.


/**
* Functions for working with modules (mozzles)
*/

class XG_ModuleHelper {

/**
* Get widget objects for all widgets containing mozzles which
* are enabled in this app
*
* @return array an array of widget instance name (widget directory) to W_Widget objects
*/
public static function getEnabledModules() {
$moduleInfo = self::getModuleInfo();
return $moduleInfo['enabled'];
}
/**
* Get widget objects for all widgets containing mozzles which
* are disabled in this app
*/
public static function getDisabledModules() {
$moduleInfo = self::getModuleInfo();
return $moduleInfo['disabled'];
}
/**
* Get widget objects for all widgets containing mozzles in this app
*/
public static function getAllModules() {
$moduleInfo = self::getModuleInfo();
return $moduleInfo['enabled'] + $moduleInfo['disabled'];
}
/**
* Get the widget objects for the widgets containing the mozzle
* with the specified name
*
* @param string name Module name
*/
public static function getModule($name) {
$moduleInfo = self::getModuleInfo();
if (isset($moduleInfo['enabled'][$name])) {
return $moduleInfo['enabled'][$name];
}
return NULL;
}
/**
* Returns an array describing the navigation links to be displayed
* based on the logged in user and the current set of enabled mozzles
*
* @return array of arrays of (display name, link, key (for highlight))
*/
public static function getNavEntries($isAdmin = false) {
$loggedIn = XN_Profile::current()->isLoggedIn();
$mainWidget = W_Cache::getWidget('main');
if (isset($mainWidget->config['navEntries'])) {
return unserialize($widget->config['navEntries']);
}
$adminWidget = W_Cache::getWidget('admin');
$profilesWidget = W_Cache::getWidget('profiles');
// Default nav includes all enabled modules
$navEntries = array();
$navEntries[] = array(xg_text('MAIN_TAB_TEXT'), $mainWidget->buildUrl('index', 'index'), 'main');
if (XG_App::canSeeInviteLinks(XN_Profile::current())) {
$navEntries[] = array(xg_text('INVITE_TAB_TEXT'), '/invite', 'invite');
}
$navEntries[] = array(xg_text('MY_PAGE_TAB_TEXT'), $profilesWidget->buildUrl('index', 'index'), 'profile');
$navEntries[] = array(xg_text('MEMBERS_TAB_TEXT'), $profilesWidget->buildUrl('members', ''), 'members');

/**(here I added - for example)

$navEntries[] = array(xg_text('Forum_TAB_TEXT'), $profilesWidget->buildUrl('forum', ''), 'forum');

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*/
$enabledModules = self::getEnabledModules();
foreach ($enabledModules as $name => $module) {
if (isset($module->config['isFirstOrderFeature']) && $module->config['isFirstOrderFeature']) {
if ('profiles' !== $module->dir && 'music' !== $module->dir && 'activity' !== $module->dir) {
$navEntries[] = array($module->title, $module->buildUrl('index', 'index'),
$module->dir);
}
}
}
if ($isAdmin) {
$navEntries[] = array(xg_text('MANAGE_TAB_TEXT'), $mainWidget->buildUrl('admin', 'manage'), 'manage');
}
return $navEntries;
}

protected static function getModuleInfo() {
// Discover all available modules
static $enabledModules = array();
static $disabledModules = array();

//TODO this if condition can never be false.
if (count($enabledModules) == 0 && count($disabledModules) == 0) {
foreach (W_Cache::allWidgets() as $widget) {
if ($widget->config['isMozzle']) {
// Every module should have a title and a display name but
// use a reasonable default just in case
if (isset($widget->config['displayName'])) {
$widget->displayName = $widget->config['displayName'];
}
else {
$widget->displayName = ucwords($widget->dir);
}
if (isset($widget->config['title'])) {
$widget->title = XG_LanguageHelper::translateDefaultWidgetTitle($widget->config['title']);
}
else {
$widget->title = $widget->displayName;
}
$widget->description = $widget->config['description'];

// Determine which modules are enabled
// isEnabledDefault only matters if isEnabled isn't set
// NOTE: isEnabled is a string so that we can determine whether
// it's been set
if ($widget->privateConfig['isEnabled']
|| (mb_strlen($widget->privateConfig['isEnabled']) == 0 && $widget->config['isEnabledDefault'])
// Second-order features like the RSS and HTML widgets are always enabled, regardless of their isEnabled setting [Jon Aquino 2007-05-07]
|| ! $widget->config['isFirstOrderFeature']) {
$enabledModules[$widget->dir] = $widget;
}
else {
$disabledModules[$widget->dir] = $widget;
}
} // isMozzle
} // foreach
}

return array('enabled' => $enabledModules, 'disabled' => $disabledModules);

} // getModuleInfo()

/**
* Run an action in all enabled modules, taking into account any special
* rules that are relevant for group-enabled modules
*
* @param $controller string The controller name to use (e.g. "index")
* @param $action string The action name to call (e.g. "searchConfiguration")
* @param $args array optional array of arguments to pass to the action
*/
public static function dispatchToEnabledModules($controller, $action, $args = null) {
$enabledWidgets = XG_ModuleHelper::getEnabledModules();
/* If groups is enabled, make sure to talk to widget instances that are
* group-aware but could be inactive on the top level */
if ($enabledWidgets['groups']) {
foreach (XG_GroupHelper::groupEnabledWidgetInstanceNames() as $groupEnabledWidgetInstanceName) {
$enabledWidgets[$groupEnabledWidgetInstanceName] = W_Cache::getWidget($groupEnabledWidgetInstanceName);
}
}
foreach ($enabledWidgets as $widgetName => $widget) {
if ($widget->controllerHasAction($controller,$action)) {
list($r,$html) = $widget->dispatch($controller,$action,$args);
}
}
}

}

[kandilj]

If you re-arrange the "$navEntries" array in the "getNavEntries" in the "XG_ModuleHelper.php" class under the main "lib" folder, you should be able to re-arrange the order of the nav bar accordingly.

[Christine Crowstaff]

thanks for that kanidl
Much appreciated for your answer

Cheers

Chrisj