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So, I'm working on a block that will combine the "User Functions" with the "menu_elements" (and, of course, plg_menu_elements), creating a single place on the page for all of these, called "Actions". I didn't have much trouble finding the code in lib-common.php to copy and paste into my new function in lib-custom.php for the User Functions. I am having a hard time reproducing the "menu_elements" part. Any suggestions?

So what exactly is your problem? What we have here is a nested template, i.e. a template (header.thtml) includes another template (menuitem.thtml). So the line $header->parse( 'menu_elements', 'menuitem', true ); parses the 'menuitem' template and puts the result into the {menu_elements} variable in the header template. This is done repeatedly (for each menu item), thus producing the menu bar. Hope that helps. bye, Dirk

How is this any different then the current menu plugin?---Danny @ squatty.com

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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, guys. I checked out the menu plugin, and it didn't do exactly what I had in mind. I meditated on your comment, Dirk..... And, finally, it came to me.

I mentioned that I had made a new phpblock in lib-custom by ripping out the code from lib-common. Well, since that's my own custom function, I found it easy to change the menu items by adding, removing and modifying the four line stanzas. So, for example my "Get Published" link appears thanks to this code:

$adminmenu->set_var( 'option_url', $_CONF['site_url'] . '/submit.php?type=story' ); $adminmenu->set_var( 'option_label', $LANG01[71] ); $adminmenu->set_var( 'option_count', '' ); $retval .= $adminmenu->parse( 'item', 'option' );

Now I get a bit better of an idea how the templates work, since they're set up a the beginning of the function to draw the "User Functions" block.