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Support => Elxis 4.x/5.x DEV => Topic started by: seadhna on January 15, 2025, 09:53:23
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Hi there,
I have a menu item collection (called 'other') which has more than 1000 menu items.
The listing at: ../emenu/mitems/other.html gets paginated after 1000 items.
However, if I try to click on page 2 in the pagination, I get taken to: ../emenu/?page=2
which displays a list of all menu item collections. I can't seem to view page 2 of menu item collection "other".
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I am sorry, you have created a menu with 1000 items???? :o
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yes, over many years, in order to apply modules to articles. all the articles need to be in the same category, but require different modules.
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I am sure you have done it the wrong way. There are better ways of doing so rather than creating 1000 menu items.
You can, for example, put a little code inside your template to load specific modules with custom criteria.
Individual modules can be loaded with the module method of elxisDocument library. You can either provide the module name or the module ID. In case you have multiple instances of the same module it is better to use the module ID.
Generic usage
$eDoc = eFactory::getDocument();
$eDoc->module('mod_login');
or
$eDoc->module('24');
Example of dynamic module loading depending on the current article.
We check if ELXIS_ARTID php constant has been defined. If yes the visitor sees an article. We get its ID and then based on this ID we load the corresponding module.
if (defined('ELXIS_ARTID')) {
switch (ELXIS_ARTID) {
case 4: $modid = '12'; break;
case 5: $modid = '22'; break;
case 19: $modid = '15'; break;
case 6: $modid = '11'; break;
case 35: $modid = '23'; break;
case 19: $modid = '8'; break;
default: $modid = ''; break;
}
if ($modid != '') {
$eDoc->module($modid);
}
}
You can pass these IDs as parameters in your template's XML.
If you have too many you can use a compact form like that: 4=12,5=22,19=15,...
You can also make it even easier by adding advanced functionality in your template to manage them from Elxis administration easily (like a table)
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Interesting! I will try to adopt this better practice. Thank you datahell.