Revision history for HTML-LinkList

0.1503 Sun 07 September 2008

(19 May 2007) uneven lists
Enable this to deal with lists of lists where the first item isn't a normal item, but a sub-list, but the next item is a normal item.

(11 Sep 2006) hide_ext
Added the 'hide_ext' option, to hide extensions of files in links (useful for MultiViews sites).

(23 May 2006) description improvements
Added 'pre_desc' and 'post_desc' options to enable one to put a string before and after the descriptions.

(20 Apr 2006) preserve_paths option
Added the 'preserve_paths' option; if this is true, then the input paths are not sorted, nor do they have intermediate paths extracted. This speeds things up slightly, and can be useful if you already have a full list of paths and don't need to do that processing on it again.

(17 Apr 2006) navbar fix
If there are paths that are too similar, such as one subdir in a directory being called "foo", and another called "foobar", then it would pick up the foobar stuff in foo when it shouldn't.

(12 Apr 2006) fixed nohide bug
The 'nohide' option was being ignored in some circumstances.

(1 Apr 2006) breadcrumb-navbar
Added a hybrid breadcrumb-navbar: nav_tree(navbar_type=>'breadcrumb') which starts off like a breadcrumb-trail, showing the parent(s) of the current URL, but also showing the current level, not just the current URL. Useful in situations where you don't want a full-blown navigation tree.

(16 Mar 2006) documentation tweaking
(16 Mar 2006) exclude_root_parent
Added the 'exclude_root_parent' option, which excludes the root "/" path from being counted as a "parent" to the current_url when using the 'pre_current_parent' and 'post_current_parent' options.
This can be useful if you want to use those options but don't want the root/Home link to be displayed differently.
(16 Mar 2006) prepend_list and append_list
Added new options (to 'full_tree', 'nav_tree') 'prepend_list' and 'append_list' which enable you to prepend or append a list of links to be added to your "top level" as-is.
(16 Mar 2006) removed nav_bar
Removed the 'nav_bar' function because it was horrible and made yucky navbars. With use of CSS and choice of levels and separators, the 'nav_tree' should be sufficient, since while the UL list is the default, it can be set up to use paragraphs and so on.

(16 Feb 2006) top_level option Added a new 'top_level' option, useful for starting a navigation tree further down its hierarchy.

(2 Feb 2006) depth fixes
- enabled start_depth and end_depth to be changed for nav_tree without wierdness happening. It used to be that end_depth was ignored, and if start_depth was anything other than 1, one would get too many links.
(25 Jan 2006) empty lists
Added a check to see that the generated list wasn't empty; before this, it would always put on the list_head and list_foot stuff even if there was nothing there. Which meant that you could end up with something like
which is Not Nice.
(25 Jan 2006) parent_item_sep
Added the 'parent_item_sep' parameter to 'nav_bar'.

(19 Jan 2006) mostly nav_bar
- added new function nav_bar, which does an across-the-top navbar
- added new option 'nohide' to override 'hide'
- renamed a number of options
- restructured the way some things were done

(17 Jan 2006) corrected navbar error
My feature enhancement... didn't do what I thought it did. Oops.

(17 Jan 2006) improved navbar
Now the navbar shows the next level up when the current page is not an index page; the siblings of its parent.

(13 Jan 2006) improved nav_tree
Revamped the logic and the options to make nav_tree more sensible and simpler to use.
(12 Jan 2006) nomenclature
Stop referring to directories; they're index pages. Renamed 'dir_tree' to 'full_tree'.

(11 Jan 2006) breadcrumb_tree
Added the 'breadcrumb_tree' function which makes a breadcrumb trail from the current_url.
(11 Jan 2006) minor fixes
Made the checking of the 'current_url' better.

(9 Jan 2006) tweaking documentation
(9 Jan 2006) commit tweaking
The ModDevAid stuff needed to not try to chmod non-existant scripts.
(9 Jan 2006) fixing tests
Just some minor bugs with the tests.
(9 Jan 2006) initial checkin