Re: Child / dependent themes - anyone know this?

Futureweb — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:50:23 +1300

You can can use sub themes. They are not just for modules, they can be used to take a theme, and extend it for any page type. By using myTheme_page you can basically create a child theme that extends your master theme...

I've put some notes on this at http://www.silverstriperesources.com/articles/customising-a-theme-using-sub-themes/

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Re: Is there a way to shorten this code?

Willr — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:21:23 +1300

Group all the fields into 1 DataObject set via a PHP function. Something like

function FieldsForPage() {
$output = new DataObjectSet();

for($i = 1; $i < 10; $i++) {
$field = "Field$i";
if($this->$field) $output->push(new ArrayData(array('Field' => $this->$field)));
}
return $output;
}

<% control FieldsForPage %>
<img src="$ThemeDir/images/icon/$Field.jpg" title="$Field" alt="$Field" width="32" height="32"/>
<% end_control %>

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Re: Is there a way to shorten this code?

edwardlewis — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:37:13 +1300

I've realised that the alt tags and title tags in that won't work, eg they will just display "1" values.

Would still be interested if there was a way to reduce the code?

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Is there a way to shorten this code?

edwardlewis — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:53:36 +1300

I'm creating a site which has a series of boolean fields to control what icons are displayed on a page.. in total there will be around 20 fields for this particular section.

In my template I have something like this:

<% if Field1 %>
   <img src="$ThemeDir/images/icon/Field1.jpg" title="SField1" alt="$Field1" width="32" height="32"/>
<% end_if %>
<% if Field2 %>
   <img src="$ThemeDir/images/icon/Field2.jpg" title="SField2" alt="$Field2" width="32" height="32"/>
<% end_if %>
<% if Field3 %>
   <img src="$ThemeDir/images/icon/Field3.jpg" title="SField3" alt="$Field3" width="32" height="32"/>
<% end_if %>
<% if Field4 %>
   <img src="$ThemeDir/images/icon/Field4.jpg" title="SField4" alt="$Field4" width="32" height="32"/>
<% end_if %>

Can that be re-rwriiten to something shorter?

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Creating themed directories?

HeartlandTech — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:43:47 +1300

I want to do something like this:

/dir1
--- home
--- about us
--- something
/dir2
--- home
--- about us
--- something

I want to theme each "folder" for a particular branch. Any ideas on how to do a conditional statement to get the top most parent for any particular segment?

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Re: Sub Themes and Modules

Futureweb — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:04:52 +1300

In fact, in the eCommerce, subthemes work with the product page, but not the checkout page. Again, the code is

public function init() {
      if(!class_exists('Payment')) {
         trigger_error('The payment module must be installed for the ecommerce module to function.', E_USER_WARNING);
      }

      Requirements::javascript(THIRDPARTY_DIR . '/jquery/jquery.js');
      Requirements::javascript('ecommerce/javascript/CheckoutPage.js');
      Requirements::javascript('ecommerce/javascript/ecommerce.js');
      Requirements::themedCSS('CheckoutPage');

$this->initVirtualMethods();

parent::init();
}

where i think it should be (note the position of parent::init();)

public function init() {

      parent::init();

      if(!class_exists('Payment')) {
         trigger_error('The payment module must be installed for the ecommerce module to function.', E_USER_WARNING);
      }

$this->initVirtualMethods();

}

I'm trying to build some new all purpose themes, so I'd like to get this working by only using the templates... either that or the owners of the modules could update the code!

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Sub Themes and Modules

Futureweb — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:17:24 +1300

According to http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/topics/theme-development I can create sub theme, like "myTheme_forum", copy forum CSS, customize, and it should work....

However, it doesn't work on a few modules

It works on the for the Blog module, and eCommerce, but doesn't work on the FORUM module.

I know one way of fixing it (in forumholder.php parent::init(); needs to be above the list of required files), but this required changing code in the module - which I shouldn't need to do.

Seeing as the forum module is used by SS in their own example, I would expect it to work. So - am I missing something?

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HTML5 Boilerplate

adrian — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:37:00 +1300

Hi,

Just wanted to let everyone know that Silverstripe can work really well with the HTML5 Boilerplate framework: http://html5boilerplate.com/

I just used it to create this site: http://quintessentialcool.com which was recently added to the community showcase (thumb it if you like it!)

I simply started with a completely empty theme, then modelled my Page.ss on the index.html from HTML5 Boilerplate. Put the boilerplate style sheet into the theme's CSS folder, put the javascript libraries into the theme's javascript folder and built it up from there. No forms.css, typography.css or layout.css (although I could have split the HTML5 Boilerplate stylesheet into those components, for some reason I prefer keeping everything in one file as long as I'm reasonably neat).

I recommend this for anyone who really wants to feel like they're starting a Silverstripe project with a clean slate on which you can build a custom design.

Oh, I also make use of the media "screen" attribute in the link tags in the HTML head to achieve a somewhat responsive design optimised for iphone. Again I found this was also easier to do when the site started from a clean slate.

Let me know what you think.

Regards,
Adrian

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Re: Issues creating a 'dynamic' sub-menu

Akaidu — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:29:12 +1300

Many thanks, guys.

Marti - I already have the design working as it should be, I just need it to hide/show the sub-menu based on whether the active page has children or not, and if so: Only show the the children of the active page.

Mark - Thanks for the link and module, I'll certainly give it a look and see if I can't figure out how it works.

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Re: Issues creating a 'dynamic' sub-menu

markjames — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:13:06 +1300

I required the same functionality (but to any sub-level), so I created a module for it if you're interested: https://github.com/markjames/silverstripe-nestedmenu

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Re: Issues creating a 'dynamic' sub-menu

martimiz — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:21:14 +1300

Supposing the basic set of pages you talk about are all root pages, a very simple menu would work like this. Menu(1) will give you the rootpages: for each page you check if it has any children, and if it does, you create a nested unordered list for them.

<% if Menu(1) %>
   <ul>
   <% control Menu(1) %>
   <li>
      <a class="$LinkingMode" href="$Link">$MenuTitle</a>
      <% if Children %>
         <ul>
            <% control Children %>
            <li>
               <a class="$LinkingMode" href="$Link">$MenuTitle</a>
            </li>
            <% end_control %>
         </ul>
      <% end_if %>
   </li>
   <% end_control %>
   </ul>
<% end_if %>

The actual design/hiding/showing will need some classes/javascript - but this will give you the basics.

Using Menu(2) instead of Menu(1) would give you all childpages of the currentpage, so that would work fine for a submenu.

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Issues creating a 'dynamic' sub-menu

Akaidu — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:20:13 +1300

So I have the basic menu set up:
---------
-Active Page
-Page
-Page
-Page
---------

I'm wanting to get something along the lines of this:

---------
-Active page
-Sub-page
-Sub-Page
-Page
-Page
-Sub-Page (hidden in menu)
-Sub-Page (hidden in menu)
---------

I came across this:

<% if Menu(2) %>
<h2><% control Level(1) %>$Title<% end_control %></h2>
<div class="list">
<ul>
<% control Menu(2) %>
<% if Children %>
<li class="$LinkingMode"><a href="$Link" title="Go to the $Title.XML page" class="$LinkingMode levela"><span><em>$MenuTitle.XML</em></span></a>
<% else %>
<li><a href="$Link" title="Go to the $Title.XML page" class="$LinkingMode levela"><span><em>$MenuTitle.XML</em></span></a>
<% end_if %>

<% if LinkOrSection = section %>
<% if Children %>
<ul class="sub">
<li>
<ul class="roundWhite">
<% control Children %>
<li><a href="$Link" title="Go to the $Title.XML page" class="$LinkingMode levelb"><span><em>$MenuTitle.XML</em></span></a></li>
<% end_control %>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<% end_if %>
<% end_if %>
</li>
<% end_control %>
</ul>
</div>

<p> </p>
<% end_if %>

But try as I might I just can't get it working. Perhaps I'm putting it in the wrong place? Maybe some of those 2s should be 1s? As a SilverStripe newbie, I'm just not sure. Any help would be appreciated.

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Paddy green $PageComments Error

firewalker22 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:34:55 +1300

With the Paddy green theme, but not other themes, I get:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://localhost/SS/new-articleholder/new-articlepage/
Line Number 130, Column 114: <p id="DeleteComments"><a href="localhost/SS/PageComment/deleteallcomments?pageid=31&SecurityID=afb7bd338746da91043ff35f45872e652eb312e5">
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
whenever I allow user comments on an article
But only in firefox.

I am a total noob to SilverStripe, please use concise terminology that us noobs can comprehend.
Any help is welcomed as I am trying to run a professional website for a professional company, and this
sort of error needs to be addressed when discovered.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Article page looks like this
-----------------------------------------------------------------
<% include Menu2 %>

<% include Breadcrumbs %>

<h1>$Title</h1>
$Content
<div class="newsDetails">
Posted on $Date.Nice by $Author
</div>
$PageComments
</div>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
ArticlePage.php looks like this
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
<?php
class ArticlePage extends Page {
static $icon = "themes/tutorial/images/treeicons/news";
static $db = array(
'Date' => 'Date',
'Author' => 'Text'

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

$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Main', $dateField = new DateField('Date','Article Date (for example: 20/12/2010)'), 'Content');
$dateField->setConfig('showcalendar', true);
$dateField->setConfig('dateformat', 'dd/MM/YYYY');

$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Content.Main', new TextField('Author'), 'Content');

return $fields;
}
}
class ArticlePage_Controller extends Page_Controller {
}

?>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Also: I have seen this http://www.silverstripe.org/general-questions/show/15389
and it does not seem to give a solution

Thanks for any assistance in advance
firewalker22

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Re: Location of frontend files

Silverfish — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:37:32 +1300

Hi Plato,

the integration of frontend upgrades is definitely a point!

Didn't consider this before, thx for your input

Regards
SF

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Re: Location of frontend files

Plato — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:53:46 +1300

Themes are separate from the project directory, but the project takes precedence. If you put a template file into your project dir it will be used over whatever is in the theme dir, who's files get used in preference over any template files provided by the module.

Separating out the theme files allows one site to easily switch themes, where as if they're all in the same project dir, they simply get used.
This would allow a site to have special themes, for example a Christmas theme for their November/December sales period, and easily turn it on and off without having to fiddle around with the file system.

Getting too hung up on the separation of M, V and C gets one into all sorts of pointless debates with no real answer.

Short answer: you'd don't NEED to use the themes dir, but it makes things a little easier when upgrading front end only changes, etc.

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Re: Potential installation issues

Willr — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:08:27 +1300

You should only ever need to edit the .htaccess file in your root directory and the _config.php file in your mysite folder. Editing any of the other core folders is not ideal as it'll make upgrading harder for you later one.

If you don't want the url to be /newsite1 then yes, one way is to just not store the site in a subfolder. If you want to put it in a subfolder you will need to alter the VirtualHost (if you're on a VPS) to point the DocumentRoot to your new subfolder. Most shared hosts however, you'll be unable to alter the document root.

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Re: Simple theme mod

Turnaround Guy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:39:06 +1300

Take a look at this http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/tutorials/1-building-a-basic-site

Its a good Starting Point.

Darren

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Potential installation issues

Loopy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:07:38 +1300

I would like to install Silverstripe 2.4.6 in a sub dirctory (folder?) in the root directory of my server i.e. ./newsite1 . I need to be able to do this because I host more than one site on this hosting account. Having looked through the forum I have found some older posts that identify several problems with this approach. The problems seem to be as follows:

1 doing this makes URL look like mystite.com/newsite1.

There are suggestions as to how to fix this. One is that you only copy the contents of the silverstripe folder to the sub directory folder. Does this solve the problem and if so should I do this when uploading the files via ftp (before installation) or after installation?

2 There are various references to the need to add an .htaccess file to the root directory and also to modify the .htaccess and config.php files in Silverstripe but does not specify which .htaccess or config.php files to change (there are several in different folders).

The posts on the forum were made about a year ago. Have these issue been addressed in version 2.4.6 or do I still need to make changes to get the site to work through a sub directory in the root directory?

If I still need to make changes can anyone tell me what I need to do in the htaccess files?

Hoping there is a simple solution to these because Silverstrip looks great for my purposes but my experienc and understanding of htaccess and server settings is not great.

Thanks

Appologies but I seem to have posted this in wrong forum and it should have been in installation forum

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Simple theme mod

Loopy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:32:30 +1300

Hello everyone

I have recently discovered Silverstripe and it looks ideal for the site I am trying to build which will start with a basic 3 or 4 page site but may expand in the future. I would like to make some simple mods to the theme. The changes I wish to make relate to width, header image, menu bar colour and background. I have looked at the theme and it looks like I can make these changes as follows

Change width from 710 to 756 in the layout.css file and replace background, header and menu images in images folder

Is this all I need to do or are there changes required in the Templates/page.ss file aswell.

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Re: Theme Won't Show

thegreatmike — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:48:56 +1300

is it because its v. 2.0.0?

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Theme Won't Show

thegreatmike — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:30:24 +1300

I've done everything it says underneath the theme for installation. Inserted the theme in /themes folder, changed the _config.php file to the "Code Name" they provided, and flushed site.... nothing... any help? The theme i want is the global theme:

http://www.silverstripe.org/global/

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Re: jquery.ui.tabs droste-efect error only in Silverstripe

yurigoul — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:33:07 +1300

The problem remains and as far as I can see it is more serious as I thought and it is really caused by Silverstripe - but do not know where it comes from. I used the demo file that comes with the jquery ui tabs downloads and simply renamed it Page.ss - did not add any content, changed the links to the resources using $ThemeDir, added the <% base_tag %> and $MetaTags, added $Content and $Form so I could log in, and tested it with the 3.0 alpha2 version and a clean install of silverstripe 2.4.6. Same problem.

I attached a screenshot of what happens in the code and I attached the Page.ss. The Page.php is left as is from a clean install using SS 2.4.6 and 3.0 Alpha 2

I hope people understand this is not a rookie problem. I have build various websites with silverstripe and I am maybe not the top developer but I am building sites since over a decade (started in 1997 doing web things in 1997 for a web-magazine using bbedit and have worked as free lance web designer/coder since 2005)

And of course I hope someone can help me

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Re: Insert blocks of content

swaiba — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:55:27 +1300

you can either hard code the blocks in the template and retrieve data from the controller using functions
or you could make this using widgets and modifying how the "sidebar" is shown

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Insert blocks of content

Giu — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:50:31 +1300

HI all,

I'm trying to understand how SilverStripe works, but I'm stuck.

I created a template with Artisteer, and seems is working.

Now, between the content (red), and menu(blue), I want to present 4 blocks feeded with content (in green). In second screenshot I show wht I want from my previous site.

The problem, is I don't know how to show four blocks there, and how to feed it with content from SS pages.

I hate comparisons, but I don't know how to explain me better. In Joomla for example, you have positions, and in this positions, you can insert contents, but, I can't find something similar here, and I don't understand how to do it.

Thanks a lot.

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jquery.ui.tabs droste-efect error only in Silverstripe

yurigoul — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:28:20 +1300

This truly is a Silverstripe related question because the error only happens in in silverstripe, outside of silverstripe it works fine. I hope someone can explain me what is going wrong because I am at wits end here.

I have a html file that works perfectly with jquery, especially with jquery.ui.tabs and jquery.ui.accordion.

When I theme it, it works ok up until the moment I add the jquery.ui.tabs-part. What it does is: it creates a droste effect by adding the whole page inside the tabs (from metatags to footer). ~~The result can be seen here~~ EDIT: added a screenshot of the result, since I changed the page to work without ui.tabs

If I turn off javascript, copy the source silverstripe created and paste it in a new empty html file and render it in my browser it works fine - so it has nothing to do with my php code - but it has to do with Silverstripe.

What I tried:

- all requirements are cleared with Requirements::clear(); AND Validator::set_javascript_validation_handler('none');
- Turning off the different javascripts, plugins and what not revealed it only has to do with the jquery.ui.tabs-part
- I tried binding everything using requirements using the jquery parts that came with silverstripe and adding my script at the bottom. But the results are the same in silverstripe (tested it again in a test.html file and there it works fine).
- copying all the jquery files from sapphire/thirdparty to my theme dir - still no cigar.
- I am not logged in when I try it, I do not have $SilverStripeNavigator installed, have turned off everything in the _config.php in mysite to get rid of everything that has to do with testing. (see: http://www.806software.com/2011/06/silverstripe-and-jquery-plugins/)
- And I tried it in three or four different browsers, tested it localy in MAMP and uploaded it to my server

As I said, I am at wits end here, I go experiment some more by rearranging my html code - then I have to head to bed and do some other job in the morning, so I might not reply timely.

And of course in the end it will be something very stupid and simple I did wrong so I am prepared:-)

EDIT: I am running 2.4.6 with the google sitemap plugin

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Re: JavaScript adding to themplete

Willr — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:03:28 +1300

See http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/reference/requirements#including-inside-template-files.

For the final line you can just keep it as a script tag.

If you're including all those files, perhaps you want to minify and combine the files. This time in your PHP Page.php init function (has to be via the Requirements PHP API as the template one doesn't support the syntax in 2.*)

Requirements::combine_files("main.js", array(
"js/jquery.easing.1.3.js",
"js/jquery.easing.compatibility.js",
"js/coda-slider.1.1.1.js",
"js/cufon-yui.js",
"js/start.js"
));

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JavaScript adding to themplete

silus — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:23:03 +1300

hi!

so, i have this:

and i need to add it to Page.ss
should it look like this:
<% static void javascript(http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js) %>
(...)
<% static void javascript(Cufon.now();) %>

thanks for the reply, coz i cant understand from the manual how to do this.

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Re: Starting to customize SilverStripe

Giu — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:14:06 +1300

Sorry to reply too late.

Yes, this worked. Thanks a lot for your time.

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Re: Starting to customize SilverStripe

hammuh — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:33:16 +1300

Hi Giu,

try to visit http://{siteurl}?flush=1. This will flush the cache.
This will probably solve the issue with the blue screen. Use the same url when you changed template files. If you don't, you won't see the changes you made in some cases.

The best way to learn SS is by reading and following the instructions on the tuts. See http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/tutorials
For me the tuts where a perfect start.

Enjoy!!

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Starting to customize SilverStripe

Giu — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:17:42 +1300

Hi all,

Yesterday we noticed the existence of SilverStripe, and looks a very promising CMS for our projects.

For the moment, We would like to make a test site to try the features of SS, but I'm having little problems to find the best place to learn to customize an SS site. I looked in themes section in the site, but I don't find any "complex" theme to see on it. For example, a typical site with a banner block, sidebar, and so on.

For the moment, I'm reading "Building theme from static template"[1], but when I copy the theme to "themes" folder, and change it in SS Admin, I only see the blue page attached (this happened to me with all themes I tried)

For this first site, the HTML page will be make it with Artisteer (for speed to test).

Some help is appreciated.

[1] http://www.ssbits.com/newbies/2010/building-a-theme-from-a-static-template/

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Unterminated string literal with html5 mobile boilerplate

gonace — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:05:53 +1300

I'm trying to create a mobile theme using the html5 mobile boilerplate (http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile) but I can't get it to work.

unterminated string literal
[Break On This Error] Modernizr.mq('(min-width:0)') || docum.../hogis_mobile/js/libs/respond.min.js">

On this line:

I've been searching trough the internet with some solutions, for example upgrading the htmlCompressor to 1.4.2 but I'm using 1.4.3 so that bug should be fixed. The boilerplate runs correctly but when i try to make template file of the "index.html" I get the error message shown above.

What can't I see?

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Location of frontend files

Silverfish — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:45:22 +1300

Hi There,

as far as I see now, SilverStripe modules bring all their templates, images and css files together with the backend code in the project folder. For me this seems to make sense as well for a website project (i.e. mysite) since I can move a whole project easily from one to another SilverStripe system by just moving one folder.
No the documentation says: "A theme is a set of HTML/CSS/Javascript and images that can be used to provide a skin for a site. A theme does not include any PHP: instead it should be separate from the code which allows the portability of a design. After all, this is an MVC framework!" (http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/topics/theme-development).

Sure we want to separate code and layout. But do we really have to separate their folders?

Anyone in for this sure a bit philosophical discussion?

Regards
SF

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Re: Setting Order of required themedCSS files

Matty Balaam — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:39:28 +1300

Top advice! I'm already combining my Javascript files, so that makes sense to me.

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Re: Setting Order of required themedCSS files

Willr — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:45:01 +1300

Actually what you should be doing these days is using Requirements::combine_files() so you send as few CSS files as possible.

It's personal preference as to use either the PHP requirements api or the template one, personally I think that message in Page.php is wrong. Including it in the PHP code is often the best (or only way) to do it.

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Re: Setting Order of required themedCSS files

Matty Balaam — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:29:47 +1300

I've always wondered the same about the message about Requirements. Is this outdated guidance in the now rather dated BlackCandy theme?

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Re: Setting Order of required themedCSS files

Silverfish — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:23:14 +1300

Hi Willr,

thx for your answer!

Source Code says:

public function init() {
parent::init();

      // Note: you should use SS template require tags inside your templates
      // instead of putting Requirements calls here. However these are
      // included so that our older themes still work
      Requirements::themedCSS('layout');
      Requirements::themedCSS('typography');
      Requirements::themedCSS('form');
   }

so I don't know if this is deprecated and will be eliminated in future versions?

Currently i'm doing a workaround, passing Silverstripe CSS mechanics with i.e.:

What exactly are the advanteges by loading CSS files via Requirements:: that i miss by doing this?

Regards
SF

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Re: Setting Order of required themedCSS files

Willr — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:39:56 +1300

No easy way to control the order for any requirements. You can control order a little easier if you use the Requirements PHP api as thats a bit more predictable.

class Page_Controller extends ContentController {

function init() {
parent::init();

Requirements::themedCSS('layout');
}

class HomePage_Controller extends Page_Controller {

function init() {
parent::init(); // will require page::init

Requirements::themedCSS('home');
}

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Setting Order of required themedCSS files

Silverfish — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:09:33 +1300

Hi everybody,

I'm loading some CSS files with i.e. <% require themedCSS(layout) %>in my main template (Page.ss). In several included layout templates (i.e. HomePage.ss) I load additional CSS files (i.e. require themedCSS(home)).

In the generated code css files are loaded in reversal order, i.e.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localhost:8060/themes/mysite/css/home.css?m=1320227911" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localhost:8060/themes/mysite/css/layout.css?m=1320076828" />

Since i would prefer to overwrite the general css declarations in layout.css with the specific declarations in home.css, i need to change the order in which the CSS files are loaded.

Anyone any hint if and how this is possible?

Thanx for any answer!

regards
SF

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Re: Convert only content to template

expou — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:25:44 +1300

I can not just replace my current content with
" <div id="Layout">
$Layout
</div>"
?

Why do I have to convert the whole site?

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Re: Child / dependent themes - anyone know this?

Willr — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:30:21 +1300

AFAIK inheritance isn't supported more than subthemes. You can also use the fact that if no theme contains the file mysite/templates is used so your 'base' could be mysite/templates/ then subthemes to themes/yourtheme

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Re: Convert only content to template

Willr — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:41:12 +1300

You would find it easier to convert the whole site to SS. You potential could embed that content from SilverStripe via an iframe but it's nasty. I recommend converting the site entirely. The themes documentation includes more information: http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/topics/theme-development

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Convert only content to template

expou — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:16:56 +1300

Hi Community,

i am new to silverstripe.
I have a running XHTML/CSS Website and want to use SilverStripe only for blog site.

Can i replace the part (marked in attached image) with the blog function of ss and leave the rest of
the website as is?

Regards

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Child / dependent themes - anyone know this?

KINKCreative — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:14:28 +1300

I recall vaguely an article from years ago that explained we could develop dependent themes. E.g. one theme that inherits from another, and you would then only change certain files, while keeping the main theme as the basis. I am pretty certain it had to do with SS. Does anyone remember this? I googled back and forth and I'm not hitting anything.

Hereby I don't mean a "subtheme" for a module, but e.g. a theme that is derived from a main theme, but has a different look (e.g. different CSS's).

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Re: Set default theme (SSViewer::set_theme) programatically in _ss_environment.php instead of _config.php

vwd — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:35:40 +1300

Thanks Will - appreciate your response very much.

VWD.

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Re: Set default theme (SSViewer::set_theme) programatically in _ss_environment.php instead of _config.php

Willr — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:51:45 +1300

This is perfectly fine. The reason you cannot use SSViewer::set_theme() in your environment is that the class isn't loaded but a constant is perfectly valid to be used.

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Set default theme (SSViewer::set_theme) programatically in _ss_environment.php instead of _config.php

vwd — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:16:14 +1300

Hi,

We've structured our SS projects so that all project specific configuration goes into _ss_environment.php, leaving _config.php to be as generic as possible, so that we can include it in our SS project boilerplate.

One thing that unfortunately is project specific is the call to SSViewer::set_theme(). From our reading of the forums, we get the impression that it is recommended to set a default theme programmatically, so we'd like to do that somewhere.

The question is where can we do this (preferably somewhere project-specific like _ss_environment.php) and outside of _config.php.

Is what we're doing here, OK... we define a constant in ss_environment.php that is then used in the _config.php's SSViewer::set_theme call. Eg...

_ss_environment.php

...
define('SS_PROJ_DEFAULT_THEME', 'MyDefaultTheme');
...

_config.php

...
SSViewer::set_theme(SS_PROJ_DEFAULT_THEME);
...

Seems to work well. Sounds OK?

Thanks for your input.

VWD.

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Re: Remove default template on 'view'

martimiz — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:10:08 +1300

Thanking the wrong thread... Should go to Smurkas answering your same question(!) in another thread:

http://www.silverstripe.org/template-questions/show/18202

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Re: Remove default template on 'view'

stellalie — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:19:38 +1300

Ah!! I never knew this going to be so easy.

Thank you!! Placing specialpage_popup.css on root template folder do the tricks.

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Re: Remove default template on 'view'

martimiz — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:04:29 +1300

Are you saying that the specialpage_popup.ss template itself actually includes the page header and footer? In that case removing them from the file and doing a /?flush=1 should do the trick.

Or do you mean they are not in the template but for some obscure reason SilverStripe still includes them when generating the popup? In that case: are you sure the specialpage_popup.ss is actually used? If so then post your specialpage_popup.ss template and of the bit of code in your popup() function where you generate the output...

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Remove default template on 'view'

stellalie — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:52:17 +1300

Hi,

Sorry if this is a noob question. Been looking all around but haven;t find a clue. Basically I would like to use a view based on existing page as a pop-up.

specialpage_controller extends page_controller {

   static $allowed_actions = array (
      'view',
      'popup'
   );
}

/popup is displayed using specialpage_popup.ss, which includes the default header and footer for that template.

How do I remove that?

Many thanks in advance.

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