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kompideal

Community Member, 7 Posts

15 June 2009 at 9:02pm

Hi :)
I am searching solution for one problem I have.

I have Silverstripe 2.3.1 version. I have website there I want to place various content on one page.
For example:
I have pages named "About us" and "Solution", these pages have main content area and sidebar area. I want that I could edit these pages on CMS: various content in main area; and the same content in sidebar area in all pages and sidebar area could be editing in CMS in one page and shown for public in all pages.

I hope that I explained my problem well.
So how can I do this? Thanks for help.

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Howard

Community Member, 215 Posts

16 June 2009 at 10:26pm

Yup that is a common request and easy to implement, have a look at this tutorial which will step you through it http://www.ssbits.com/create-a-static-sidebar/

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SilverRay

Community Member, 167 Posts

16 June 2009 at 11:05pm

Yeah, I do it like this:

1. I'll have a HomePage template, to which I add fields that I consider "global". (I will collect them under a "global" tab in the cms.)

2. On Page.php, I include the following function:

	public function callHome(){
		return DataObject::get_one('HomePage');
	}

3. This means that I can call home from every Page template (or a template based on a page type that extends from page) to show things that I've set in the "global" section on my home page in the cms. (For instance $callHome.WhateverField.)

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steve_nyhof

Community Member, 224 Posts

27 December 2009 at 2:18pm

SilverRay

Could you explain a little further what you are doing here?

I want to set my footer to be global. I want that a user can edit the footer info in an editer on a tab called "Footer" - like your "Global" tab.

Please help me with the steps I need to take to make this work.

Thank you,
Steve

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SilverRay

Community Member, 167 Posts

27 December 2009 at 2:46pm

Edited: 27/12/2009 2:48pm

OK, well, I make use of the fact that your home page is always there and has a separate page type ("HomePage.php"). Example for HomePage.php:

<?php

class HomePage extends Page {
...
	public static $db = array(
		'SomeFooter' => 'Text'
	);

	function getCMSFields() {
		$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
		$fields->addFieldToTab('Root', new TabSet('GlobalContent'));
		$fields->addFieldToTab( 'Root.GlobalContent.Footer', new TextField('SomeFooter', 'Put Footer text here.'));
		return $fields;
	}
...
}

class HomePage_Controller extends Page_Controller {
}

?>

This means I declare a variable 'SomeFooter' to put in your Footer's content, and I create a tab for the editor in which you can actually do that. Then in Page.php:

class Page_Controller extends ContentController {
...
	public function callHome(){
		return DataObject::get_one('HomePage');
	}
...
}

?>

This means that in every page template of the type 'Page' (or a type extended thereof) I can call $callHome.SomeFooter to render the content of SomeFooter for that particular page. The function callHome calls the HomePage dataobject and -in this case- its SomeFooter attribute.

HTH

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steve_nyhof

Community Member, 224 Posts

27 December 2009 at 3:18pm

Edited: 27/12/2009 3:24pm

Thank you SilverRay!

You opened up a whole new world for me!

I will add to this post as I go along. The first thing I ran into was that I setup the $fields code after my other tab code - this removed all my tabs. So I pasted the $fields to the top, before the page tabs and they all came back.

I have added the editor ...
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root', new TabSet('GlobalContent'));
$fields->addFieldToTab( 'Root.GlobalContent.FooterContent', new HtmlEditorField('SomeFooter', 'Use the editer below to update your footer content'));

To be continued...

The backend all seems fine. The values are saving and all if fine.

Onto the HomePage.ss file...

Should that just be a duplicate of the Page.ss file? I'm getting this error...

[Warning] file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: Filename cannot be empty
GET /

Line 277 in /home/landingp/public_html/sapphire/core/SSViewer.php

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steve_nyhof

Community Member, 224 Posts

27 December 2009 at 3:26pm

My Home Page (from HomePage.ss) is not showing up in the Behavior tab ??

Where is this function being called - callHome ?

public function callHome(){
return DataObject::get_one('HomePage');
}

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steve_nyhof

Community Member, 224 Posts

27 December 2009 at 3:39pm

I can't seem to get my Home Page to show up - any ideas based on the error I'm getting?

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