Finding the 'top but one' node id

Saturday 12 July 2003 6:23:15 am

Hello all,
I have created a subnavigation element which will get all of the child nodes to the one which you are currently viewing.
What I would like to do is if the user is further down in the site, they will be shown the second level of navigation in that section.
e.g.

root
------ products
------ ------ red
------ ------ blue
------ ------ green
------ ------ ------ furry
------ ------ ------ smooth
------ contact
------ etc....

so when they are in:
products >> green >> furry

(or anywhere in the products section for that matter)

the subnavigation will show:
red
blue
green

hope this makes sense. The code I am currently using is:

subnav

{let folder_list=fetch( content, list, hash(parent_node_id, $node.node_id,sort_by, array( array( priority ))))}

<ul>

{section name=Folder loop=$folder_list}
<li><a href={concat("/",$Folder:item.url_alias)|ezroot}>{$Folder:item.name|wash}</a></li>

{/section}
</ul>

I am using the nice url technique (thanks Karsten), hence ezroot - The variable I need to replace is $node.node_id with the node_id for the top but one node (in this case products). Because I don't know how many levels deep the site will be, I can't just refer to the grandparent node. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Ben Pirt

Sunday 13 July 2003 5:06:34 am

i'll try the path version
thanks for your help,
Ben