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I wanna make a sidebar, but how?
11 January 2009 at 5:35am
Hi guys,
at first.. I startet yesterday working with silverstripe and its really great, good job!
Now my question.
I wanna make a sidebar on my website which can be edit in admin.
I found no module for it so I wanna make it in this way:
I wanna make a invisible page (called "sidebar") in admin and include it in my sidebar.. But I dont know which code I would need to include.. and if it would work at all.I hope someone can help and understand (I am from germany) me.
p.s. I know there is a sidebar within the blog module, but I dont want this sidebar.
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Re: I wanna make a sidebar, but how?
11 January 2009 at 9:49am Last edited: 30 March 2009 2:33am
[EDIT]
There is now a tutorial on creating a sidebar on SSbits.com
http://www.ssbits.com/create-a-static-sidebar-editable-from-the-cms/[/EDIT]
Hi Martin, welcome to silverstripe
Here is what you need to do:
First create a class for your Links. We need to make the links objects so that you can then add as many as you want to your page.
So your code for the Links class might look something like this:
<?php
class Link extends DataObject {
static $db = array(
'Link' => 'Varchar(255)',
'LinkText' => 'Varchar(255)',
);static $has_one = array(
'LinksPage' => 'LinksPage',
);function getCMSFields_forPopup() {
return new FieldSet(
new TextField('Link'),
new TextField('LinkText'));
}
}
?>Notice the '$has_one' variable. This is to tell SS that the each link will be connected to a LinksPage.
Next we create our Links page type in which you will be able to control your links from:
class LinksPage extends Page {
static $db = array(
);
static $has_many = array(
'Links' => 'Link',
);function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$LinkField = new HasManyComplexTableField(
$this,
'Links',
'Link',
array(
'Link' => 'Link',
'LinkText' => 'LinkText',
),
'getCMSFields_forPopup',
);
$LinkField->relationAutoSetting = true;
$LinkField->setAddTitle( 'A Link' );
$fields->addFieldToTab( 'Root.Content.Links', $LinkField );//you wont need any content on your sidebar so lets remove it's field
$fields->removeFieldFromTab("Root.Content.Main","Content");
return $fields;
}}
class LinksPage_Controller extends Page_Controller{
}?>
Then in your Page_Controller you can create a function that will get your links and return them to the template:
function GetLinks(){
$LinksPage = DataObject::get_one("LinksPage");
return ($LinksPage) ? DataObject::get("Link", "LinksPageID = {$LinksPage->ID}") : false;
}Finally in your SideBar.ss include you can now call <% Control GetLinks %> which will return all your links.
Hope that helps, any questions just ask
Aram
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Re: I wanna make a sidebar, but how?
11 January 2009 at 10:47am
Hi aram,
thank you for your answer.
I think its not exactly that what I want.
I wanna put in my sidebar not only links, also some informations (text) and maybe images. So, thats why I would like to change it like the pages. -
Re: I wanna make a sidebar, but how?
11 January 2009 at 11:39am Last edited: 11 January 2009 11:41am
so you need to change it on a per-page basis? or you just want to add images etc to it that will appear on every page?
if its going to look the same on every page then its eays all you have to do is add those fields into the LinksPage class. Perhaps that was a bad name for it, it should have been called SideBarPage because it contains all of the items you want in the sidebar, which includes a list of links.
So instead of taking out the 'content' field you can leave that in and use it as normal, add some image fields etc.
then in your Page_Controller we can just use a function 'GetSidebar' which will return the entire sidebar page object so we can access all of the items on it:
function GetSidebar {
return DataObject::get_one("SidebarPage");
}then in the Sidebar.ss template we can just do something like this:
<% control GetSidebar %>
$Content
$Image
<% control Links %>
<a href="$Link" >$LinkText</a>
<% end_control %>
<% end_control %>You should have full flexibility to treat the SidebarPage (previously LinksPage) just like a normal page adding any fields/tabs etc you like
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Re: I wanna make a sidebar, but how?
11 January 2009 at 11:37pm
yeah it shall appear on every page.
But I still have a few questions (about the codes).
The first question is, if I need for your function "GetSidebar" also the codes from your post before?
The other question is, if your first code which has the class "Link extends DataObject" needs to be in a own file like "sidebar.php" or so (which is in /code/).
and my last question.. I acutally want this sidebar without links.. just with content like I said.. images, text and so. Can you tell me how the code has to look then?I am really thankful for your help.
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Re: I wanna make a sidebar, but how?
12 January 2009 at 12:06am Last edited: 12 January 2009 1:37am
your welcome
I seem to have totally misunderstood and not read your initial post properly, sorry about that! hehe
here is the code for what you want:
mysite/code/SideBarPage.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{
}
?>mysite/code/Page.php
class Page_Controller extends ContentController{
public function GetSidebar(){
return DataObject::get_one("SidebarPage");
}
}themes/yourTheme/templates/Includes/Sidebar.ss
<% control GetSidebar %>
$SidebarText
$Image1
$Image2
$Image3
<% end_control %>
That should do it
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Re: I wanna make a sidebar, but how?
12 January 2009 at 12:26am
I have done what you wrote, but I get a white page now. and "Debug::send_errors_to" sends no error mail to me.
But I am sure now, that is what I wanted.
and by the way.
you've forgotten 2 ' in this code part:static $has_one = array(
'Image1' => 'Image',
'Image2' => 'Image',
'Image3' => 'Image',
);
(but that was not the error why I get a white page). -
Re: I wanna make a sidebar, but how?
12 January 2009 at 12:43am Last edited: 12 January 2009 12:43am
oops,sorry for the typo, fixed now
Just to be clear, you cant actually navigate the the SidebarPage and see anything because we havnt defined a SidebarPage.ss template. Instead we are just grabbing some items from it to include in our Sidebar.ss include. So inorder to see anything you have to <% include Sidebar %> inside another page template.
If you still have trouble let me know
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