Im new to October CMS
I read the documentation and its states that components can be used inside a layout on the PHP Section (https://octobercms.com/docs/cms/layouts)
i want to create a component that will be used as configuration file for my theme, declaring global variables, that will be used on all pages, but will also be used for all layouts i will create. but i cant find how to do it via code. Like include a file. i want this to used this parameters inside the PHP Section of the layout and the pages.
If components is not the best way, can you ppl sugest me what is the best way
I did before search a lot to find some way that I can share variables to all my layouts and pages but couldn't find anything.
So I tried my own trick and it worked.
In your frontend you must have header.htm partial. so in the code section in it write a onStart() function and set your global variables so you can access them from any layout or page which includes the header partial.
For example in your header.htm code section:
function onStart() {
$this['my_var'] = ['name' => 'Ahmed', 'age' => 17];
}
That way you can access my_var variable wherever you want in all your layouts and pages which header.htm partial is included.
Related
Is it possible to render another "root" template instead of the Page.ss file for some specific pages / controllers? There are already some pages using the Page.ss template, but now there will be a new "Intranet" section on the website where the pages should have another "root" template: IntranetPage.ss.
Page.ss should stay as is and should not be touched at all.
I mainly want different "root" templates because both templates load different JS and CSS files. Also the "container" HTML is quite different.
I was able to create a custom controller which does manually what I need. Something like this:
class IntranetPageController extends PageController
{
public function index()
{
return $this->customise([
'Layout' => $this->renderWith(['Intranet/Layout/IntranetPageLayout'])
])->renderWith(['Intranet/IntranetPage']);
}
}
The code is inspired from here: https://docs.silverstripe.org/en/4/developer_guides/templates/rendering_templates/
IntranetPage.ss is used now as the "root" template. IntranetPageLayout.ss is displayed for the $Layout placeholder.
That seems to work, however I have many pages which have to be based on IntranetPage.ss. It feels strange to write for every new Controller the very same index function (with a small adjustment to load another LayoutPage).
I am sure, Silverstripe has some convention to do that automatically :)
What I need is very close to having a individual theme per page, but I am not sure if that is possible...
Instead of extending PageController, extend your IntranetPageController in new controllers. Whenever index is called, it will call your index function from your parent class, in your case IntranetPageController.
Is it possible to display a view of a component without iframe and plugin?
(That is to say, if possible with a few lines of PHP and maybe SQL queries?)
EDIT:
To be more clear: I'd like to do it directly in the PHP-Template!
(Would be fine to do it in an article as well, as I have written a
PHP-function showArticle(mixed $ident))
(I'm using Joomla 3.5)
I'd like to do something like
<jdoc:include type="component" view="example" name="position-x" />
or
<?php
show_component('component-name', 'view-name');
?>
you can use this component http://extensions.joomla.org/extension/components-anywhere
Install the plugin and enable it.
Then you can call the component this way {component url/of/the/component}
{component index.php?component=com_example&form=1}
Try to use non-sef urls in the url but sef url will still work.
There is another way to achieve this by calling the model into your controller file this way
JModelLegacy::addIncludePath(JPATH_SITE . '/components/com_example/models', 'ExampleModel');
What this does is it searches the model class starting with ExampleModel in the folder specified. here you can eneter just a path string or array of the directories as the first parameter. Next you have to call the method inside the views file this way
$exmodel = JModelLegacy::getInstance('Something', 'ExampleModel', array('ignore_request' => true));
So here you create an instance of the class object which can be used to get the items from the model this way
$items = $exmodel->getitem();
$this->assignRef('items', $items);
next you can copy the default.php file in the tmpl folder of that component and place it anywhere you like inside your layout file. Basically instead of copying the entire component you are calling the model and getting the data which you can use in your layouts.
Im here again with a question about yii framework.
I've got a page under views/myviewname/admin.php.
I've got a page under views/myotherviewname/admin.php.
Now i want to give those pages another style. But how do i do that?
I've created a page under themes/classis/views/myviewname/admin.php and in that file i got this:
<?php /* #var $this Controller */ ?>
<?php echo $content; ?>
But i get an error. Because $content is not defined.
How do i style those pages? Would be nice if i can style all admin pages at once.
First of all, this is undeniable that $content variable will be known as undefined, since it can only be used in Layouts, not Views.
As you probably know, if you already have set a theme for your application(in main config file by 'theme'=>'myTheme'), Yii looks for that into themes/myTheme and all views will be rendered in themes/myTheme/views/x/y.php instead of views/x/y.php. Also, your layouts will be overridden by layouts located into themes/myTheme/layouts.
Now, lets assume that we want to create 2 themes:
DarkTheme
LightTheme
We should create structures like below:
+themes
+darkTheme
+views
+layouts
+main.php
+myLayout1.php
+myLayout2.php
+myController
+myView1.php
+lightTheme
+views
+layouts
+main.php
+myLayout1.php
+myLayout2.php
+myController
+myView1.php
We have a main.php which holds our base theme structure(skeleton), and 2 layouts named myLayout1.php and myLayout2.php respectively. Also we already defined a default layout into our base controller(Usually Controller.php) like below:
public $layout='//layouts/myLayout1';
Now, we have a main layout which shows everything inside myLayout1 by default. We can change layout in out action like below:
$this->layout="myLayout2";
Also we can change application theme like below:
Yii::app()->theme="lightTheme";
Note: Theme name is case-sensitive. If you attempt to activate a theme that does not exist, Yii::app()->theme will return null.
Above codes can be written into beforeAction() method or every action. Please note that, if you render myView1($this->render('myView1')) and if the theme is set to darkTheme, Yii will render themes/darkTheme/views/myController/myView1.php instead of views/myConteoller/myView1.php.
To be more clear, $content will be used in layouts. Also, this is remarkable that, $content will be replaced by everything inside a view. So if you want to modify the whole page's schema, you must modify main.php layout. In front, if you want to modify the style of a view's content, you need to modify your layout.
I want to create my custom theme in CakePHP. Where can I save my block in CakePHP directory structure that will contain all my menu links? And how can I fetch the file from View\Themed\MyTheme\Layouts\default.ctp?
Either use Elements (if your navbar shows on every single view) or use View Blocks (if navbar only shows on some views).
In your default.ctp file you would just do..
echo $this->element('navbar');
Which would render Views/Elements/navbar.ctp onto Views/Layouts/default.ctp (if you are using the default layout).
To access: View\Themed\MyTheme\Layouts\default.ctp, in (Cake 2.1+), you must tell cake which theme you want to use like so:
public $theme = 'MyTheme';
// or override in an action:
$this->theme = 'MyTheme';
Then:
$this->layout = 'default';
will refer to your View\Themed\MyTheme\Layouts\default.ctp.
If cake can't find the requested view file in MyTheme, it will fallback to app/View to find it.
In this way you can override views in your theme as needed.
So if you place your menu in View/Elements/menu.ctp, all of your themes will be able to access it. if you want to overwrite it for MyTheme, simply create an Elements/menu.ctp within MyTheme.
The process is slightly different with previous versions of cake if I recall.
Just place it under /App/Views/Layouts. If you want to use it everywhere, call it default.ctp, it will automatically be used. Otherwise, give it a different name, and then in the controller do:
public function some_action() {
$this->layout = 'mylayout';
}
This will display some_action using your layout instead of the default.
Using Yii here. But perhaps a more general approach could fit:
Let's say we have a controller/view called: "Theater"
Inside Theater, we wish to have several static pages about several specific theaters displayed.
PLEASE CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING POINTS (that the DOCUMENTATION don't answer):
1) The static pages already share the same layout as OTHER views under this application
*Theater index.php* (that for example, can contain a cmenu with links to each specific theater) already suffers influence from main.php layout.
2) index.php have some HTML that ALL specific pages have.
Also, Theater index.php as some general html elements shared with all specific theater pages.
Question:
How should we render those specific static pages each time we select a given theater on the menu ?
My first thought was to somehow use the index.php view and inside, call $this->renderPartial('specificTheaterHere'); but I believe this approach doesn't work, because inside renderPartial we should have a variable, but where should we change that variable ? Should we have a controller method for each static page and pass there the variable of a partial view? Would this make sense?
I've read this nice article, still, the question remains.
http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/22/how-to-display-static-pages-in-yii/
Note:
It makes no sense to create a LAYOUT for static pages here, because, they already share the main.php layout.
Thanks in advance
[update] Take a look at Yii layouts as well.
You don't need that, you can use the actions() method to render static pages. In a fresh Yii installation, you can find that in SiteController::actions().
In routes:
'page/<view:\w+>' => 'site/page',
In SiteController
public function actions() {
return array(
'page' => array(
'class' => 'CViewAction',
'layout' => 'my_layout',
),
);
}
Check the full documentation here
Now any static page in /views/site/my_static_page.php can be access by: http://mysite.com/page/my_static_page
Check the full documentation and tutorial here:
http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/22/how-to-display-static-pages-in-yii/