Generating secondary menu based on node titles

Question

I would like to generate a secondary menu based on the first letter of all of my nodes that have a certain content-type, however I am unsure how to go about doing this.

Basically, I will be generating an alphabetical list of all nodes that I have (for a given content-type).

For instance, I would like to have my secondary menu generate A-Z, however only the letters with an associated node would be active.

So, if I had nodes: apple, grapes, mango, pear, then my menu would look like this:

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

with the bolded letters being active links, and the rest disabled.

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how, instead, removing the 'secondary menu' requirement and simply generating a list of the first letters of all the nodes within a given content-type?

Answer 1

Create a view containing all those nodes. Then get the custom-pager module (also requires token), it should let you put together something.

You create a custom-pager.tpl.php in your templates folder, and you'd retrieve the list of nodes from the view. I think it's called $nav_array but look at the custom-pager documentation.

You can then just sort nodes by their names and create your a-z list. Will require a bit of PHP coding.

These might help...

http://drupal.org/node/114248

http://www.lullabot.com/articles/custom-paging-for-views