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I wanna make a sidebar, but how?


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Carbon Crayon

Community Member, 598 Posts

12 January 2009 at 2:19am

Edited: 12/01/2009 2:21am

which versoin are you using, I am using 2.23.......not sure if this would work with 2.3, it should but I havn't got round to testing much on that version.

here is my code:

SidebarPage.php

<?php

class SidebarPage extends Page {

   static $db = array(
   'SidebarText' => 'Text'
   );
   
   static $has_one = array(
   'Image1' => 'Image',
   'Image2' => 'Image',
   'Image3' => 'Image',
   );
   
   function getCMSFields() {
   $fields = parent::getCMSFields();
   
   $fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Main', new TextAreaField('SidebarText'), 'Content');
   $fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Images", new ImageField('Image1'),'Content');
   $fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Images", new ImageField('Image2'),'Content');
   $fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Images", new ImageField('Image3'),'Content');
   
   return $fields;
   }

}

class SidebarPage_Controller extends Page_Controller{

}

?>

Page.php:
<?php

class Page extends SiteTree {
	static $db = array(
	);

	
}

class Page_Controller extends ContentController {
	
	function GetSidebar() {
   return DataObject::get_one("SidebarPage");
   }
}

?>

Sidebar.ss

<% control GetSidebar %>

$SidebarText

$Image1

$Image2

$Image3

<% end_control %>

Page.ss
<% include Sidebar %>

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martin_w

Community Member, 28 Posts

12 January 2009 at 3:16am

Edited: 12/01/2009 3:18am

I use 2.2.3, the newest.

When I delete the SidebarPage.php, then works my admin. So I think the error must be in this file.

Must the function not be in class SidebarPage_Controller extends Page_Controller{}?

I think so, it works when I put the function in it. :) (but first after db flush)

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martin_w

Community Member, 28 Posts

12 January 2009 at 3:28am

now I got it really work..
I was wrong with "Must the function not be in class SidebarPage_Controller extends Page_Controller{}? "

I think I had problems with db flush, thats why it worked not earlier.

very big thank you. :)

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Carbon Crayon

Community Member, 598 Posts

12 January 2009 at 4:59am

Edited: 12/01/2009 5:01am

great to hear you got it working, the GetSidebar() function must go into Page.php beacause you want it to be available on every page. If we put it into SidebarPage.php then it would only be available when we were on a SidebarPage, which in this case we would never be as we are not using that page on its own.

Anyway we got there in the end and your very welcome :)

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martin_w

Community Member, 28 Posts

12 January 2009 at 5:22am

and your very welcome

I think then I may ask one more question ;)

is it possible that in the text fields is also html available?

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Carbon Crayon

Community Member, 598 Posts

12 January 2009 at 6:36am

Edited: 12/01/2009 6:38am

You sure can :)

You just have to use the HtmlEditorField field type. To do that add this to your SidebarPage class:

static $db = array(
   'FieldName' => 'HTMLText'
)


function getCMSFields($cms) {
		$fields = parent::getCMSFields($cms);

$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Images", new HtmlEditorField( "FieldName",  "HTML Editor"));

return $fields;	
	}

that will add a tinyMCE editor like the one for Content

There is a list of all the form field types you can use here: http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=form-field-types

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martin_w

Community Member, 28 Posts

12 January 2009 at 7:05am

thats super!

works all, thank you. :)

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dreamstudio

Community Member, 48 Posts

7 March 2009 at 9:36pm

I have followed this and everything seems to work until I load up the sidebar.php file, i then try to flush the DB and it comes up with a silverstripe website error and i cant flush or go into the admin area

Remove that one file and it works.

Im using silverstripe 2.3.0

The page i get up is a standard web error page so i cant see where it has the problem and not sure what in sidebar.php would have the problem