I am creating a Wordpress plugin that if possible, I would like to link to a series of pages to an outside website (an affiliate login), instead of re-building a replica of the same pages inside of the plugin.
My thought was to do this inside of an <iframe>, but since there are several pages, I do not know if this is possible, or if it's even a good idea for other reasons.
I'm thinking it might be better to re-build the pages inside of the plugin. It sounds like there could be a ton of problems trying to do it with an <iframe>.
a single iframe can only point to a single source - so make that source have several iframes instead - make a new html file in your plugins folder
like yourdomain.com/path_to_your_plugin/new_iframe_holding_file.html
in that file put as many iframes as you want show up in your plugin and in your plugin code point the src property of your iframe to that file
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Normal when i try to customise WP style i would use inspector view in Chrome and this would allow me to locate style code easily.
i was wondering how i can do the same for HTML or PHP code in WP such as plugins and the CMS it self?
Thank you
PHP is server side code and can't be found in the browser. If you want to see the code for WP plugins then you'll need to either download the plugin to your local machine or view the files on the server hosting WP.
Iassume you run it on your own root-/ webserver,...
so if you want to add HTML Elements to a post or site just do it in the text few like you would in an HTML-Editor like for some link thing for instance (you should allready know that..'pretty shure it also works for js).
However if you want to customize the way every page on your blog looks, you can also do this manually, but it won't be as easy.
There should be a section under the theme customization part where you could upload your own css and php (at least with a lot of styles it's like that).
I WOULD NOT mess with the files on your server, if you don't know what you are doin, cause - to be honest - you can make a great blog/ website by using the tools it gives to you. ;)
I recommend using the stylesheet from your wordpress theme for a custom HTML-document based on the source of a blog page, if you go for the looks... and in every other case just use plugins! :P
So in the included image, you can see a copy of the website I'm currently working on. The site is going to have separate pages for each of the company's machines. Obviously the navigation bar and menu bar are going to be the same throughout the whole website so I thought I'd make use of a single line of PHP script to just load the menu in each time.
http://i.imgur.com/spVS3a4.png
(Attached image as I do not have +10 rep yet)
Though, from what I understand, the pages within folders (Not within root) wont be able to link to the rest of the site without the use of ../ within the href.
So if I load the menu part of the site containing the navbar, etc, it won't work on all the pages because they'll all be within different folders, meaning every folder will need it's own version of the navbar PHP import.
Am I going about this the wrong way? I'm just trying to minimize the amount of code I'm using on each page. Not only that, but once I finish the site if I have to make a change to the menu-bar, I don't want to have to update 30-40+ pages. I figured the PHP import would save me that sort of trouble? Is there a better way of doing this that isn't terribly complicated?
It should also be noted that I'm doing this in HTML5 with Twitter-Bootstrap as my main CSS.
I would also be making a similar PHP call that would import a footer as well.
If I missed anything that could be of help, please do ask.
TL;DR - How do I make links work throughout the entirety of the site, regardless of where they are in the folder hierarchy. Thought about using a tiny PHP script that would contain the menubar, etc and would be loaded on every single page. Though I'm not sure if that will work due to folders?
Try to start your links from /. This means that url is started from site root.
For example:
Patch Kettles
Just define a constant with the root path and echo it within all the links inside the pages that are contained in a folder like this:
[Put this in a file that you include through out your whole website (e.g. like the file with your database connection if you have one)]
define('BASE_URL' , 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/');
Than just add an echo in the start of each link:
Home
And for images the same thing:
<img src="<?php echo BASE_URL; ?>images/img_01.jpg"/>
You can just use /path/to/image.jpg to get absolute paths, while still being fine if your domain name ever changes.
Ive created a portfolio website for myself, there is a gallery which users can enter, click on a thumbnail and then go to a new html page with the full image and description. Now on this full image page i have a list of other fullimage pages for project 2,3,4,5, etc..
But obviously manually updating project2.html to have a list of all other projects minius project 2 in the sub nav is very tedious and mistakes will occus when i have to do it for all 12 plus pages. So im after the page people are viewing not to appear in that sub nav.
My problem is.. Do i scrap the custom html site and move onto a cms.. The logical step for this sort of dynamic nav. Or do i try and include php if possible. Can anyone suggest the best approach for this, im aware it might in the longrun be easier to run off a cms but i do like the control i get and knowledge i hand crafted my html.
Thanks
Mat
If you wanted to do this with php, you could do so by making a single file containing the navigation, for example nav.html:
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
all the project pages would then need to be php files, with the appropriate .php extension, and in each of them you would have:
<p>All your normal page html about the project and such that's above your navigation</p>
<?php
include("nav.html");
?>
<p>Anything underneath your navigation</p>
Alternatively, the CMS is a viable choice, or if you particularly fancied learning some php, you could actually code a perfectly servicable system to do this without too much trouble yourself.
If your don't want to use CMS , you can create a php file to handle requests for example , a php file that receive this request :
http://myfolio.com/moreinfo.php?album_id=1&
now in the php file you can get informatin from DB and folders then create a HTML Stream and then output it.
I'm quite new to Drupal and want do some editing of the header. I want a custom toolbar to appear on every page. I've already created that toolbar in a file called toolbar.php. It has a layer which is fixed and will appear on top of every page.
How do I include the toolbar.php in the header template of drupal?
The toolbar refers to $user which is a global Drupal variable and I want to test toolbar.php before publishing it to the site. Is there anyway I can do that?
Regards,
Dasith
Of the two methods above the first is easier if you understand the basic idea of html and CMS templates, the second will be easier if you are a programmer.
First thing to check is that you really need to do this! Can't you restyle one of the existing menus (Primary or secondary) to do this - will make your life (and anyone who works on the site in the future) a lot easier.
The other thing you can do is look into adding an output region, basically something where you put the php into a drupal friendly format and then effectively do a 'drupal print'. This is how the toolbar, search box etc are done. You still need to alter the templates as above.
Yes for sure. If you want to have the html produced by your function/file appear on every page of the site then you will need to over-ride the page.tpl.php file in the theme you are using and essentually add the html to that file.
To gain access to the $user variable, just declare it in your script.
global $user;
open page.tpl.php file in a code editor and save as page-front.tpl.php (with two dashes if you are using Drupal 7.. one dash with Drupal 6) and upload it to your theme's directory. Clear your cache by going to configuration->Performance->Clear All Cache. Then referesh the page. Now your homepage is using page-front.tpl.php as it's template file. Every page will need its own template file. The page machine name comes after the hyphen so the user page template uses page-user.tpl.php. You can edit it as you want. The proper way to really do this is to use hook_theme() to pass variables to the template file. One variable could be the html which creates your custom header.
See also http://drupal.org/node/457740 Beginners Guide to over riding theme output
I have a website running on osCmax setup by a developer a while back and now I want to restyle some of the pages myself from the markup and CSS only.
I'm familiar with HTML/CSS and some jQuery to an extent but I have never touched any PHP. This is my first time really getting into any of the osCmax pages, site, etc., myself so I am little confused on what it really is or does.
If I want to edit any of the HTML/CSS myself for styling pages will I have to download and login to the osCmax admin panel to get to any of the files?
Or can I just go directly through my server to grab the appropriate HTML and CSS files? Wouldn't all the necessary files from the download be on my server already or is this something that I have to download to use?
If all you want to do is restyle the pages, then just modify the css. You shouldn't need to modify the PHP (unless parts of your HTML are created with out a class or id).
oscmax has a seperate folder for its template. all you have to do is editing the .css file. but sometimes you need to design the template from scrath and since the OSCMAX is outdated you must edit all the pages with .tmpl prefix.