Other types of menus

We have covered the two main types of menus in TYPO3 that we will need to know for template building, TMENU and GMENU. TYPO3 offers other menu options that we do not have time to cover in this chapter. Because so many of the other menus are extensions of TMENU or GMENU, it was more important that we spend time learning TMENU and GMENU in-depth then try to gloss over all six menu options. Now that we know the big two, we can extend our menus to some of the following options:

• GMENU_LAYERS and TMENU_LAYERS extend GMENU or TMENU to create a multi-level DHTML (Dynamic HTML) menu.

• GMENU_FOLDOUT extends GMENU to create a multi-level menu with JavaScript actions.

• IMGMENU creates a large image map with GIFBUILDER objects.

• JSMENU creates drop-downs that dynamically load using JavaScript.