MG menu Module

Creates Horizontal Drop Down Menu with horizontal submenus (only). Edit CSS modules/mod_mg_menu/mg_menu.css to customize. Modul is a clone of fynmenu ( http://ifyn.com ) and Eric Shepherd's ieHover.js ( http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hybrid ). This is my second module so the coding is not clean as well.

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I believe I may have installed all 92 menus that are listed in the Extensions Directory... It speaks well of Joomla CMS that my site survived all of that.

I had lots of problems with the jQuery and Mootools menus. They're beautiful but things would stop working, or the menu would slide UNDER the graphics, or the tooltips wouldn't render or I couldn't upload photos... you know the list!! I hope the Joomla developers can work out all the problems because the extensions that use Mootools and jQuery are soooo nice but I decided I'd rather have a site that works good.

So far, THIS little menu system doesn't conflict with anything. It uses a teeny bit of javascript.

I think the developer is modest about his abilities because this menu seems to be well designed and complete.

It installs easily as a MODULE, which means it will work with your full mainmenu mods, not just articles.

And, to find a horizontal menu like this one is unusual for Joomla, although I see these menu systems online a lot. MG Menu fits into an amazingly small space and handles lots of links.

The thing that really made me happy was the CSS file. I like to dig into the CSS and make my own styles and colors. It has a standard CSS file and you can do what you want with it.

I think this menu may be a hidden treasure among all the menu systems here.
bycfab on January 11, 2009
Hi there,

I was looking for such a module, and tada, here it is!
Works fine, I didn't test in IE yet, but I saw this case was treated.
Just two points to improve :

* in the code, when inserting css and script, replace lines 41 to 43 by :
$doc =& JFactory::getDocument();
$doc->addCustomTag( $html );
This will give a w3c compliant output.

* there should be an option to choose a custom css file, in the template for instance, in order to not modify directly the module files.

You should see shortly an implementation of this module on www.rezomusic.com.
byalmost on September 30, 2008
Thank you for MG menu. It's a simple way to get simple horizontal menus - something I've been struggling with for a while (depending upon the template I was using at the time). MG Menu works right out of the box, honors access-level settings, and is pretty easily tailored through its css file.

Wish list (or maybe I just need instruction):
1) I wish it handled third-level menus as drop-downs from second-levels.
2) I wish it gave me the option to drop submenus vertically or horizontally. Now it shows subs horizontally, unless they include 3rd-levels, then it drops vertivally.
3) I wish I could control the horizontal offset for submenus from their original menu item selection.