Re: Cloudy theme - how to make changes in theme colour

UrbanGrocery — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:20:13 +1200

Look in the Sitename/themes/Cloudy/layout.css file. Look in the section for "container" or the like to set the background color or image. Look for the section titled "Navigation" in the same css file and look for "Primary Wrapper" and "Secondary" wrapper to set the background colors for the navigation bar.

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Cloudy theme - how to make changes in theme colour

webdeb — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:31:59 +1200

Hi,
how do I change the top area (the first inch of background) gradient grey colours in the cloudy theme to a gradient light blue? I normally know how to change #colours in a css, but not in a CMS. I dont know which files or lines of code in the css or scss to change, or if it is in the third party/bootstrap somewhere ... as there are hundreds of options to choose from. I cant install compass because it says I need ruby, and cant find ruby anywhere.
I would also change the navigation bar from black, to a complimentary dark blue....not sure which line of code in which file to change either.
many thanks

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Re: Holder for childpages to create layout

shrike — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:30:28 +1200

Ok, new ideas needed again to solve problem with <% include SomePart %>. If for example page type "1Col" is used without this renderforHolderpage-method, includes works fine. But when the "1Col" is used as a child page under this holder-page, includes are not working anymore.

Is it possible to make some kind of add on to this code to make it work, or is it just a limitation of the system?

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Re: Replace Content Var by code-snippet

Willr — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:21:39 +1200

You can use short codes - http://www.ssbits.com/tutorials/2010/2-4-using-short-codes-to-embed-a-youtube-video/

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Replace Content Var by code-snippet

Silverfish — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:02:01 +1200

Hi All,

I want to give Editors the possibility to place prepared HTML snippets wherever they want within an open Content Textfield (HTMLEditorField).
I.e. if the Editor writes something like
'This is some Text
$mySnippet
and some more Text'
into the content field, the page should show the (hardcoded) HTML of mySnippet.ss instead of the $mySnippet var.
Is there any prepared functionality in Silverstripe for this? How would you do this?
My Approach would be to check the $UserDefinedform var of the so called module and modify it's way of replacement. Ist there a better way?

Thx for any Feedback!
Kind regards
SF

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Re: build a theme for e-commerce

nimesodelta — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:55:57 +1200

Yes! I could do that
I'm super busy at the moment but defiantly think the templates need a bloody good clean up.... I personally think we have way to many includes etc etc.

I have also made a heap of fixes to the codebase in general and made a few xtra modules.
When I have some free time I recommend you have a look at what I've been up to

Cheers
N

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build a theme for e-commerce

Nicolaas — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:22:42 +1200

I am looking for someone who is keen to build the default theme for e-commerce.

On the demo site it is running our own theme: www.silverstripe-ecommerce.com/. However, when people download the code they dont have a "black-candy" that really works for them.

If you would like to receive some renumeration for this work then I am open to it, but it will also give you a chance to promote your work as we will showcase it on www.silverstripe-ecommerce.com/ and it may also be part of the default download.

You could take black-candy (or better - the new Silverstripe default theme for 3.0) and just make it work for e-commerce.

Is there anyone keen to help with this?

Nicolaas

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Re: HTML5 Boilerplate

ocean — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:42:47 +1200

Hello,

V.Nice site Adrian!

Just discovering and exploring Boilerplate today as I'm looking for that "fresh start" approach too, thanks for sharing...

Also, interested in the Build Script minification method they use... and trying to imagine how that might work with SS? did you explore that as part of your experiment Adrian?

All the best
~ Sean

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Re: .ss does not work

swaiba — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:47:25 +1200

Is your class...

OrderPage.php

class OrderPage extends Page {
...
}

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Re: Buying Silverstripe Themes

danzzz — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:24:47 +1200

themeforests quality (themefeatures) is much better than templatemonsters.

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.ss does not work

phokki — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:47:09 +1200

Hello, im quite new to SilverStripe,

I've got a Order page on the website and in the CMS i've got a page with the page type Order.
Now i want to edit the Order page, so i made OrderPage.ss to make the layout right.

<div id="page">
<div id="small_logo">
<img title="Logo IJzerleeuw" alt="Logo IJzerleeuw" src="$ThemeDir/images/ijzerleew_logo_transparant_small.png" />
</div>
<div id="page_text">
<h1>$Title</h1>
$Content
$Form
</div>
</div>

But this page isnt showing anything..
The Page.ss is showing instead of OrderPage.ss

I did dev/build?flush=1 but it isnt working.

Anyone got an idea? Thanks already!

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Re: quality themes wanted

dizzystuff — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:33:19 +1200

If you find one you particularly like and need a hand turning it into an SS theme - just let me know!

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Re: quality themes wanted

dizzystuff — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:31:28 +1200

Hey Nicolaas

I usually head over to http://themeforest.net for gigs like this one. Plenty of nice themes, usually marked up using best practices, which makes it super easy to integrate them as SS themes. And most of the best themes still come in well below $50.

Hope that helps.

Cheers
dizzystuff

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quality themes wanted

Nicolaas — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:12:10 +1200

A couple of NGOs / Friends / Activists have asked me to help them setup a cheap site. I would love to help them. For this, I really need some reasonably good looking themes that work. I am just looking for something plain / simple / clean that does not brake. Paying fifty bucks or so for a quality theme is no problem.

Are there any themes out there that people can recommend? Or do you know anyone who is happy to sell me a theme?

In the past I found that themes sometimes need a fair bit of tweaking or dont allow for certain menu configurations, etc... I guess it would be something like black candy, but I would love to see a few more options.

Cheers

Nicolaas

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Re: Buying Silverstripe Themes

Cjohns465 — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:59:45 +1300

Thanks again Hugues,

I'm going to give this a try soon! Template monster definitely has some nice templates to choose from, and their HTML structure is quite google friendly!

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Re: Buying Silverstripe Themes

hugues.lamy — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:50:09 +1300

Nothing magical here.

I just take the theme, split it in different sections, change the extension to .ss and finaly insert the relevant templating code from Silverstripe.

The template at www.templatemonster.com are fairly well done with HTML5 and CSS3, so they are easy enough to modify and they are clean enough for good SEO (just don't buy a flash one).

Last customer, I wasted more time on the theme color and logo integration. This is now an added value service at templatemonster. Coding the theme for the Menu and include the matching content to the proper location on the template was a snap.

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Re: Buying Silverstripe Themes

Cjohns465 — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:44:01 +1300

Thanks Hugues.lamy,

Do you use Ayyurek's technique to convert your HTML/CSS/JS templatemonster.com templates into SilverStripe themes, or do you use some other technique?

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Re: Buying Silverstripe Themes

Cjohns465 — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:42:31 +1300

Thanks Ayyurek! Appreciate the guidance!

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Re: Buying Silverstripe Themes

hugues.lamy — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:37:56 +1300

I bought 2 templates from www.templatemonster.com.
I guide my customer to take a full site with only CSS and Javascript effect.

I had no problem converting these template to Silverstripe.
We can get very low cost web site with this technique.

You will still need some coding effort about 5 hours depending on the number of templates you really need to complete the integration.

Good luck.

Hugues

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Re: Buying Silverstripe Themes

ayyurek — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:06:35 +1300

http://themeforest.net/search?term=children&category=site-templates

You can choose any html template from themeforest, and find a silverstripe developer, who will convert it to a silverstripe theme. This process can take from 1 hour to some days, depending on the content types and structure of the web site.

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Re: Buying Silverstripe Themes

Turnaround Guy — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:52:10 +1300

email me at darren{at}lexandclo{dot}co{dot}uk

And see what we can sort out for you

Many thanks

Darren

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Buying Silverstripe Themes

Cjohns465 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:44:14 +1300

Hi,

I'm looking to assemble a child daycare website using Silverstripe, and would like it to have a specific theme (children/daycare) - does anyone know of a website where I can buy Silverstripe themes?

www.templatemonster.com has lots of themes, just none for Silverstripe specifically.

I'm not particularly interested in the free Silverstripe themes available via www.silverstripe.org - I would like this site to be original looking, but precanned (theme-wise) and ready to add content to.

Thanks - any artists/developers who want to take up the challenge - message/reply back me as well!

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Re: Switched themes but Site Title and Tag Line not changed

kkruecke — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:38:22 +1300

I edited templates/Page.ss and manually changed the Title and Tag Line

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Switched themes but Site Title and Tag Line not changed

kkruecke — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:28:30 +1300

After successfully installing silverstripe, I changed the theme to itheme. But I lost the Site Title, which has reverted to "Your Site Name", and the Tag Line is now "your site's tagline".

Do I have to manually change these? In the admin panel, I see the correct actual Site Title and Tag Line that I chose during installation--why isn't it still there when I change themes?

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Trouble setting static publisher theme in combination with theme in backend

Bundschuh — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:32:25 +1300

For a project I have to themes, say "A" and "B". Both based on the shipped tutorial theme files.
In the cms backend I clicked on the page root node and chose "A" from the theme dropdown menu (available are "default", "A", "B").
Creating a new page and open the preview works fine. My self created theme "A" will be used.

Now I have a self implemented static publisher which submits my pages to a external source. In the config file I set the following:
staticPublisher::set_static_publisher_theme('B');
Unfortunately this won't work. The pages will always rendered with theme "A" and submitted.

Choosing "B" in backend works fine. I assume this means that the Themes working right.

Any ideas?

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Error with custom theme

benald — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:42:58 +1300

Hi all,

I built a new theme from scratch using the responsive foundation by zurb. The site works fine from the user perspective and also from the cms, but i am getting constant errors reported when the cms is used. It's very frustrating as tracing the issue leads me nowhere. I've seen similar issues reported but have been unable to resolve my own with their solution, I'm clearly missing something and would really appreciate some expert assistance as this is stopping us from going live . Happy to post code or staging site link if required. (thanks in advance)

error1

Warning: None of these templates can be found in theme 'foundation': Widget.ss, DataObject.ss, ViewableData.ss, Object.ss
At line 207 in /home/formcraf/public_html/sapphire/core/SSViewer.php

None of these templates can be found in theme 'foundation': Widget.ss, DataObject.ss, ViewableData.ss, Object.ss
Line 207 of SSViewer.php
SSViewer->__construct(Array)
Line 332 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->renderWith(Array)
Line 183 of Widget.php
Widget_Controller->Content()
Line 369 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->obj(Content,,,1)
Line 446 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->XML_val(Content,,1)
Line 35 of .cache.sapphire.templates.WidgetHolder.ss
include(/home/formcraf/public_html/silverstripe-cache/.cache.sapphire.templates.WidgetHolder.ss)
Line 429 of SSViewer.php
SSViewer->process(Widget_Controller)
Line 342 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->renderWith(WidgetHolder)
Line 193 of Widget.php
Widget_Controller->WidgetHolder()
Line 369 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->obj(WidgetHolder,,,1)
Line 446 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->XML_val(WidgetHolder,,1)
Line 10 of .cache.sapphire.templates.WidgetArea.ss
include(/home/formcraf/public_html/silverstripe-cache/.cache.sapphire.templates.WidgetArea.ss)
Line 429 of SSViewer.php
SSViewer->process(WidgetArea)
Line 342 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->renderWith(WidgetArea)
Line 58 of WidgetArea.php
WidgetArea->forTemplate()
Line 447 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->XML_val(SidebarWidgets,,1)
Line 123 of .cache.themes.foundation.templates.Layout.Page.ss
include(/home/formcraf/public_html/silverstripe-cache/.cache.themes.foundation.templates.Layout.Page.ss)
Line 429 of SSViewer.php
SSViewer->process(ViewableData_Customised,Zend_Cache_Frontend_Output)
Line 420 of SSViewer.php
SSViewer->process(ViewableData_Customised)
Line 197 of Controller.php
Controller->handleAction(SS_HTTPRequest)
Line 143 of RequestHandler.php
RequestHandler->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest)
Line 147 of Controller.php
Controller->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest)
Line 199 of ContentController.php
ContentController->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest)
Line 67 of ModelAsController.php
ModelAsController->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest)
Line 282 of Director.php
Director::handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,Session)
Line 125 of Director.php
Director::direct(/support/)
Line 127 of main.php

error2

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: Filename cannot be empty
At line 393 in /home/formcraf/public_html/sapphire/core/SSViewer.php

file_get_contents()
Line 393 of SSViewer.php
SSViewer->process(Widget_Controller)
Line 342 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->renderWith(Array)
Line 183 of Widget.php
Widget_Controller->Content()
Line 369 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->obj(Content,,,1)
Line 446 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->XML_val(Content,,1)
Line 35 of .cache.sapphire.templates.WidgetHolder.ss
include(/home/formcraf/public_html/silverstripe-cache/.cache.sapphire.templates.WidgetHolder.ss)
Line 429 of SSViewer.php
SSViewer->process(Widget_Controller)
Line 342 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->renderWith(WidgetHolder)
Line 193 of Widget.php
Widget_Controller->WidgetHolder()
Line 369 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->obj(WidgetHolder,,,1)
Line 446 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->XML_val(WidgetHolder,,1)
Line 10 of .cache.sapphire.templates.WidgetArea.ss
include(/home/formcraf/public_html/silverstripe-cache/.cache.sapphire.templates.WidgetArea.ss)
Line 429 of SSViewer.php
SSViewer->process(WidgetArea)
Line 342 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->renderWith(WidgetArea)
Line 58 of WidgetArea.php
WidgetArea->forTemplate()
Line 447 of ViewableData.php
ViewableData->XML_val(SidebarWidgets,,1)
Line 123 of .cache.themes.foundation.templates.Layout.Page.ss
include(/home/formcraf/public_html/silverstripe-cache/.cache.themes.foundation.templates.Layout.Page.ss)
Line 429 of SSViewer.php
SSViewer->process(Page_Controller,Zend_Cache_Frontend_Output)
Line 420 of SSViewer.php
SSViewer->process(Page_Controller)
Line 202 of Controller.php
Controller->handleAction(SS_HTTPRequest)
Line 143 of RequestHandler.php
RequestHandler->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest)
Line 147 of Controller.php
Controller->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest)
Line 199 of ContentController.php
ContentController->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest)
Line 67 of ModelAsController.php
ModelAsController->handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest)
Line 282 of Director.php
Director::handleRequest(SS_HTTPRequest,Session)
Line 125 of Director.php
Director::direct(/build-process/)
Line 127 of main.php

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Re: HTML5 Boilerplate

SSadmin — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:08:39 +1300

I have gone through the HTML5 Boilerplate CMS themes cannot spotted h5bp with silverstripe as a generic theme template.
I would like to create a repo for that then push it through to bh5p wiki for reference as well .
Let me know if anyone else interested.

Alex

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Re: CSS not updating

Ryan Lawrence — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:29:22 +1300

Thank-you for you quick replies It turns out I didn't realise that I uploaded layout.css to majestic2/ by mistake, So i just deleted it and all sorted now. Thank-you Turnaround Guy and Martimiz.
Ryan

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Re: CSS not updating

martimiz — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:13:39 +1300

Did you change the path to your new css in the page template? And most importantly - did you do a ?flush=1 afterwards?

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Re: CSS not updating

Turnaround Guy — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:38:52 +1300

what happens when you deleted this one

http://majestictheatre.planetryan.co.uk/themes/Majestic2/layout.css

SS will pick that style sheet first

Let me know

Darren

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CSS not updating

Ryan Lawrence — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:23:46 +1300

Hi,
For some reason the CMS isn't updating when I upload a new layout.css. The New layout.css has uploaded correctly to the server and is showing what it should: http://majestictheatre.planetryan.co.uk/themes/Majestic2/css/layout.css (This version is the one I want) However my pages are pointing to an old version of the css.
When I look at my source code it points to: http://majestictheatre.planetryan.co.uk/themes/Majestic2/layout.css?m=1329304083

The only fix i have is to reinstall the whole CMS and I don't want to do that every time I want to update the layout.

Can anybody help?
Ryan

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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:

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-Active page
-Sub-page
-Sub-Page
-Page
-Page
-Sub-Page (hidden in menu)
-Sub-Page (hidden in menu)
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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:
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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">
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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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