I am new to PHP and today I was able to display my first list of items using CakePHP yay! but, whatever I display always shows with the default format. How can I override my view to show the page how I had it in html? Where do I put the css, javascript and images? Before this my HTML had this in the header
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/stylestopmenu.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/stylessidemenu.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/jquery.rating.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/specialtablemenu.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/admintable.css" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/jquery.min.js"></script>
I have no idea how to style it so that it displays as before. Right now it shows like this
I wouldn't like to totally get rid of this as it tells me errors but, how can i do it so that I can style the page, maybe somewhere else?, please forgive me, I am new to PHP and its been hard for me to understand the tutorials. I would appreciate any help.
CakePHP lets you override pretty much anything, you just need to understand its structure. The best thing to do is to copy the default.ctp file from your cake folder in APP_DIR\cake\libs\view\layouts\default.ctp.
Once you've copied this, place it in APP_DIR\app\views\layouts\ and cake will start using that file. To customize it, simply open up that file and change it in your editor.
You need to define your custom layout in your controller to override default layout:
//in controller say in beforeFilter
function beforeFilter() {
parent::beforeFilter();
$this->layout = "your_layout_name";
}
Hope it helps
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I have a interesting trouble, in my view I have:
<base href="{{asset('')}}" />
<link href="ad/bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
that my css's link , it was long but it still worked a month ago, but now it doesn't work, and I try :
<link href="{{ URL::asset('ad/bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css') }}" rel="stylesheet">
too, but it haven't worked yet,
but when I try a shorter link, it works normally, so why?
<link href="{{asset('link_to_css_file_in_public_folder')}}" rel="stylesheet" >
That should work.
Ps: put this code in your layouts->app.blade.php or any other layout you use.
in case you want to load separate css file in different pages in your layout call this #yield('styles') and then in your blade import your css file like my sample above inside
#section('styles')
your_code
#endsection
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{URL::to('/')}}/asset/ad/bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css">
is your asset folder in public folder or not?..if it then it works
For example, my site has 5 CSS files like this...
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/templates/purity_iii/css/custom_marketing.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/templates/purity_iii/css/custom_gps.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/templates/purity_iii/css/custom_fleet.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/templates/purity_iii/css/custom_service.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/templates/purity_iii/css/custom_corporate.css" type="text/css" />
Every page of the site will be in one of those "categories" (i.e. marketing, gps, fleet, service or corporate). And this is indicated by a class on the HTML tag. So something like this at the top of every page...
<html class="gps">
I currently have EVERY page calling all 5 style sheets listed above, but it only NEEDS the corresponding style sheet, so I'd like to be efficient if possible.
Is there a way using PHP (or whatever makes sense) to essentially search the tag's class for "gps" or "fleet" (etc.) and if, for example, it found "gps", I could then echo only that style sheet, i.e...
echo "<link rel="stylesheet" href="/templates/purity_iii/css/custom_gps.css" type="text/css" />";
This totally depends on how PHP generates your HTML. Another possibility is to do this with JavaScript. You can do it like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var file = 'templates/purity_iii/css/custom_' + document.documentElement.className + '.css';
var link = document.createElement('link');
link.href = file;
link.type = 'text/css';
link.rel = 'stylesheet';
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(link);
</script>
You can for example place the code above between <head> and </head>. Not really a valid answer to your question (PHP solution), but you could consider this as an alternative.
This seems like a poor strategy, albeit I don't know the size of your CSS files and other parameters.
How different are these pages as far as their style goes? From the file names above it looks like you might have a lot of redundant (duplicate) CSS selectors in each file. How much of the CSS in each of those files is actually unique? Is it 5k? 10k? 50k? If it's fairly small, go ahead an put it all in one file. By placing it in one file all the CSS for all the pages of your site will be cached in the user's browser and no additional requests would be needed for subsequent pages.
If combining all files and you have a 500k file and 250k is for a single page then splitting it would make more sense.
A PHP Solution
I'm guessing that your setting the CSS class on the <html> tag with PHP. If so, why not check the value of that variable in your PHP script and add the appropriate CSS file.
Something like this:
<html class="<?php echo $page_class; ?>">
<head>
<link href="custom_<?php echo $page_class; ?>.css">
</head>
This is advice is fairly general but hopefully it points you in the right direction.
try something like
<?php
if($page_type = 'gps')
{
?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/templates/purity_iii/css/custom_gps.css" type="text/css" />
<?php
}
elseif($page_type = 'marketing')
{
?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/templates/purity_iii/css/custom_marketing.css" type="text/css" />
<?php
}
?>
i need some help with linking css to a php file.
This was completed by someone else and now i need to fix it. We have the main css that controls the look and feel of the entire site. The other CSS is just for the accordions page. that needs to be added in.
Current links include:
<!-- CSS Linking -->
<link href="css/template.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>/templates/<?php echo $this->template; ?>/css/accord.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
If i remove the ?php echo from the second one it doesn't work, but if i leave it in there the css/template.css doesn't work.
Basically if both are in there are the same time they one doesn't work. Is there are way to resolve this?
The answer was that in the css of the second file there was an element of code that was overwriting the other file. The people had a body element. This has been removed and now both working together well.
I am working on a Zend Framework 1 application. It is successfully installed on my localhost and is working without any problems. However I've noticed that the css for the back end of the application is not working.
When I view the page source I can see the stylesheet has been loaded and can click on the link to it to view in the browser.
However the style is not applied to any of the elements on the screen and I do not understand why.
This is the layout file for the page: (adminstyle.css is not loading...)
<link href="/css/adminstyle.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="default" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/smoothness/jquery-ui-1.10.2.custom.min.css">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon_2.ico" />
</head>
does anyone know what might be causing this issue? Apologies for the question if it seems stupid but I'm not really experienced with this sort of thing and I am trying to get to the bottom of it. Any help is much appreciated.
I can provide more details if required, I just do not want to post lots of unescessary snippets of code up.
Here is the right way to write links in zend framework cause with your way it will work just for the index/index , for other view you won't get the style css applied :
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href="<?php echo $this->baseUrl()."/css/style.css"; ?>" >
the same for your js files
hope it helps.
I am stumped. I am using includes to import a style sheet. If I add a new style to the style sheet, generated pages will not display ANY of the new css. If I change an old css rule it WILL display the change. I thought it might be a cached file of some kind, but I have cleared the cache in all testing browsers and the problem persists.
At first I thought it was a WAMP issue, but the problem happens when I move it all live as well so now I am thinking I am doing something wrong with the includes....
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/foundation.css">
<!-- Included Custom Overides -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/Custon_Foundation_Overides.css">
<!-- Supersizer CSS -->
And this is simply my include...
<?php require("Includes/HEADER.php"); ?>
Again, all the old CSS works fine, just any new additions to any of the style sheets will not display.
Thanks
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/Custon_Foundation_Overides.css">
Maybe "Custon_Foundation_Overides.css" is a typo and you meant "Custom_Foundation_Overrides.css" or maybe you have to upload the file with correct letters capitalization.
Sounds like a browser cache issue. A simple way to fix this while maintaining good caching practices would be to pass the file make time as a query var to the file.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/foundation.css?ver=<?php echo filemtime('css/foundation.css');?>">
This will generate a string like:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/foundation.css?ver=1382564850">
This way when you update the file your browser will think its a new file and cache that, but as long as the file remains unchanged it will have the same name and maintain the browser cache.