IVAN SOTO

The last couple of months I've been using my Xoom more and more. I give it many uses, like streaming Starcraft 2 games, reading email, magazines, books, playing MKV videos, gaming and much more. Apps are getting much better over time and so are games.

After seeing a weird behavior when loading one of our sites at work when my connection lagged, I tried to look for a way to slow down my browser's network to see how the site was slowly being loaded. After some work I ran into this blog post "Simulating slow or laggy network connections in OS X" but it wasn't the most friendly procedure.

After giving it a try I decided to create a short script and it works beautifully.

touch slow.sh
chmod 700

MenuStructure is a simple module I built for Kohana3 for creating menu trees. I'ts very easy to use, and in this tutorial I will show how to build a very basic website with a tree navigation menu.

First of all, start with a clean installation of Kohana 3 (that we will call ko3site), and then setup the database and htaccess file. (You should know how to get to this point).

Now, install MenuStructure in the application's modules folder.

I just released a small module for Kohana 3 called menustructure. The main purpose is to help build a menu tree on a website with just one table.

The menu builder loop is from a old code I had for quite some time. Take a look at the readme file to get an idea on how to use it.

GitHub - https://github.com/ivansf/menustructure