Navigation help

[SiNNuT]

Because of my limited PHP skills i'm struggling a bit to generate a simple main navigation.

The tree is like this:

Home
-Menu
-Over
-Route
-Nieuws

But the navigation needs to have the homepage in the middle. The markup is like this:

<ul class="grid">
  <li class='grid-item one_fifth'><a href='/menu/'>Menu</a></li>
  <li class='grid-item one_fifth'><a href='/over/'>Over</a></li>
  <li class='grid-item one_fifth'><a class='logo' href='/'><img src='/site/templates/wbg/css/img/logo.png'></a></li>
  <li class='grid-item one_fifth'><a href='/route/'>Route</a></li>
  <li class='grid-item one_fifth'><a href='/nieuws/'>Nieuws</a></li>
</ul>

On the screen:

It will probably always be logo center and two navigation items on each side but i would like to get a 'active' class on the a elements.

I wouldn't even mind hard coding some stuff but ideally the menu would dynamically reflect the page tree order for the four children, while still keeping the home link centered.

I've been trying to do some modifications on the default menu in head.inc but so far no luck.

Any help appreciated.

[totoff]

very limited in time my first idea for this kind of "dom manipulation" would be jquery rather than php. maybe this helps: http://tinysort.sjeiti.com/

[Martijn Geerts]

Didn't test this one:

hope it works.

$home = $pages->get("/");
// all menu item exept home
$page_array = $home->children();

// count all items in $p_array
$count = count($page_array);
// all items divided by 2 + rounding down to integer
$position = floor($count/2);

$insert_after_page = $page_array->eq($position);
$page_array->insertAfter($home, $insert_after_page);

then: 

foreach($page_array as $p) {
    do your funky stuff
}