Re: access widget in template outside of the sidebar

Anatol — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:21:53 +1300

Hm, why is the answer always obvious a minute after I posted here? Anyway, it might be helpful for others. This works:

Maybe there's a shorter way with less nesting, but for now that's sufficient.

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access widget in template outside of the sidebar

Anatol — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:11:59 +1300

Hi,

how could I access widgets in e.g. the <head> of a template file. I need to define some local CSS styles depending on the content of a widget, and the CSS should go into the head of the HTML.

I tried something like this

but it doesn't work. I would appreciate any ideas.

Cheers!
Anatol

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Re: Contact Form in a Widget

reececropley — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:28 +1300

Hello Thomas,

Have you managed to write a contact form widget yet?

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Re: Contact Form in a Widget

reececropley — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:58:26 +1300

Hello Thomas,

Have you managed to write a contact form widget yet?

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Re: HTMLTextField in Widget

CHD — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:16:52 +1300

You're right!
That's odd. Doesn't look like it matters, I just commented it out and all still works fine.
I'll update my .zip files now.

(in case you haven't noticed, this isn't my strong point, so the code may not be great! But it works, so I wanted to share anyway, I'm sure the pros here can clean up these widget packs for general public use!)

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Re: HTMLTextField in Widget

Digital-Punk.co.uk — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:06:10 +1300

To CHD:

I try to implement your plugin, but it seems that .js file is missing in archive. In the ContentWidget.php you have requirement:

Requirements::javascript('widgets_content/ContentWidget.js');

And there is no such file in this folder. Could you check this please? Thanks!

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Re: Slideshow widget

bartvanirsel — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:11:16 +1300

thanks! old topic but it really helped me out!

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Re: HTMLTextField in Widget

CHD — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:55:25 +1300

yep!

The ONLY draw back is that you still need to save the page when you add a content widget before the TinyMCE applet will load.
But links, images, internal links etc all work fine.

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Re: HTMLTextField in Widget

swaiba — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:48:53 +1300

hmmm, no core change great! and it handles things link inserting a link the same way tinyMCE in the "normal" use does?

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Re: HTMLTextField in Widget

CHD — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:46:03 +1300

oh that link! fixed. thanks for pointing it out.

no we ONLY used the "widgets_content" folder from his link of attachments at the bottom of the page. We didn't make ANY core changes. Or changes to WidgetEditorArea.js.

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Re: HTMLTextField in Widget

swaiba — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:42:25 +1300

sorry to be a pain but the link in the article "http://groups.google.com/group/silverstripe-dev/msg/1a3b1292c4f46117" still links to "http:"
and the article is advising a replacing a core class yes?

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Re: HTMLTextField in Widget

CHD — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:36:07 +1300

Sorry hadn't quite finished with the article!
check it now...hopefully it's clearer

http://www.clickheredigital.co.uk/blog/bad-widget-class-name-given-our-experience-with-widgets-on-any-silverstripe-page/

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Re: HTMLTextField in Widget

swaiba — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:19:16 +1300

I just read that (btw the link isn't correctly linking in your article) but it wasn't clear to me whether you have used that code and "hacked the core" - did you hack the core?

Also how are the other functions that are added to TinyMCE handled - for instance inserting a link to another ss page?

btw I am intrested in this, but without hacking the core and providing all TinyMCE functions, until then I'll stick to bbcode only and a text edit

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Re: Bad Widget Class Name Given

CHD — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:14:29 +1300

We got our widgets working on all pages eventually, here's our solution. Hopefully it helps!

http://www.clickheredigital.co.uk/blog/bad-widget-class-name-given-our-experience-with-widgets-on-any-silverstripe-page/

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Re: HTMLTextField in Widget

CHD — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:13:48 +1300

We got our widgets working on all pages eventually, here's our solution. Hopefully it helps!

http://www.clickheredigital.co.uk/blog/bad-widget-class-name-given-our-experience-with-widgets-on-any-silverstripe-page/

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Re: HTML widget in 2.3.0

CHD — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:13:15 +1300

We got our widgets working on all pages eventually, here's our solution. Hopefully it helps!

http://www.clickheredigital.co.uk/blog/bad-widget-class-name-given-our-experience-with-widgets-on-any-silverstripe-page

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Re: Remove HTML content widget

CHD — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:12:51 +1300

We got our widgets working on all pages eventually, here's our solution. Hopefully it helps!

http://www.clickheredigital.co.uk/blog/bad-widget-class-name-given-our-experience-with-widgets-on-any-silverstripe-page/

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Re: Possible bug in the duplicating page and children functionality

Baukez — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:11:52 +1300

This was really annoying me also. Duplicating pages results in just referenced widgets, not duplicated widgets.

My solution is to extend the duplicate-function on Page class (page.php):

/**
* Duplicate this page, and make a copy of its Widgets (instead of copying the reference to it).
*
* @return Page
*/
public function duplicate() {
   $oPage = parent::duplicate();

   if($this->hasField("SidebarID") && ($this->getComponent("Sidebar"))) {
      //duplicate the current widgetArea
      $newWidgetArea = $this->getComponent("Sidebar")->duplicate();

      //loop through all widgets linked to this wigetArea & connect them to the new WidgetArea
      foreach($this->getComponent("Sidebar")->Items() as $oAreaWidget) {
         $newWidget = $oAreaWidget->duplicate();
         $newWidget->ParentID = $newWidgetArea->ID;
         $newWidget->write();
      }

      //connect the new widgetArea to the duplicate page
      $oPage->SidebarID = $newWidgetArea->ID;
   }
   return $oPage;
}

Hopefully this helps someone else aswell...

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Re: Blog Widget duplicated in Sidebar - Please Help!

MarijnKampf — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:27:15 +1300

Found this toppic whilst searching for solution to the same problem.

Willr's solution was 90% there. My modification without needing to edit core files ended up as:

Create mysite/code/NoWidgetsBlogTree.php

<?php

class NoWidgetsBlogTree extends DataObjectDecorator {
   function updateCMSFields(&$fields) {
      $fields->removeByName('SideBar');
   }
}

in mysite/_config.php add:

Object::add_extension('BlogTree', 'NoWidgetsBlogTree');

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Re: New developer here. Guide to SilverStripe widget development anywhere?

andystep — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:14:02 +1300

Could you let me know of anything you found that was useful for this. Have heard a lot about Silverstripe and am getting restricted with our customised WP website. Running a jobs board with customized widgets and want to see if they're transferable.

Founder and developer of Careworx Care Home Jobs, Care Jobs and Nurse Jobs system

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Redirect problem - Form in a Widget

Blackthorn87 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:28:30 +1300

Ok Guys,

I've managed to create a form inside a widget, and even get it all working, except for the redirect. What I would like is either to redirect to the same page that the form widget was on, with "?success=1" in url, or redirect to another page entirely. I'm almost there but just can't get it working exactly.

I have jQuery validation working, but will finish that once the redirect is working.

My php file is attached!

Thanks Guys!!

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Re: Using a DataObjectManager in widget

Aaron Brockhurst — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:45:15 +1300

Did you find a solution to this?

Is it possible to have either a DataobjectManager or ComplexTableField in a widget?

Aaron

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Re: New developer here. Guide to SilverStripe widget development anywhere?

swaiba — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:45:00 +1300

Help -> Documentation -> Widgets
http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/topics/widgets

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New developer here. Guide to SilverStripe widget development anywhere?

Riceman — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:26:25 +1300

As the topic says, I'm looking for an guide. I'm interested in porting some of my Wordpress efforts to SilverStripe.

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Re: [Solved] Override WidgetHolder.ss

stevanovich — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:08:13 +1300

Just as a matter of interest as I tried to change my WidgetHolder.ss I was frustrated to the limit for it not changing then I realised that one has been put in the latest Silverstripe in the blackcandy_blog/templates/ so look there to change.

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Re: $SiteConfig.XX in Widget template?

Matty Balaam — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:31:43 +1300

There is actually a better way Willr mentioned here:

http://www.silverstripe.org/widgets-2/show/18440

Use the following code in your widget:

function SiteConfig() {
return SiteConfig::current_site_config();
}

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Re: $SiteConfig.XX in Widget template?

socks — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:06:11 +1300

Not sure why I didn't think of that, thank you Matty

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how to move a htmlcontentwidget from blog to leftpanel in any other pages

cherry — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:52:00 +1300

I am new to the silverstripe.
I downloaded the htmlcontentwidget from widgets.
it is working in blog module but i want to display that widget into leftpanel of any other pages.

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Re: MapWidget errors

Yambo — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:04:18 +1300

I also had a similar problem with the Map Widget. The API key in the config file wasn't working for me and so I manually added it to the controller.

I changed line 32 on the MapWidget.php from;

Requirements::javascript("http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=".$MapsWidgetAPIKey);

to this (add your Google API key);

Requirements::javascript("http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=ADD-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE");

This worked for me.

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Using a DataObjectManager in widget

Ronaldo71 — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:26:48 +1300

Hi,

I'm trying to convert the Nivo Slider extension into a widget, because I don't like it to mix up page types just for something I'd like to use on multiple page types. The original Nivo Slider extension can be found here:
http://www.silverstripe.org/nivo-slider-silverstripe-extension-module/

Anyway, as can be seen in the attached screenshot, it all seems to work, except for the edit link of an item.
The edit link refers to

http://mylocalsite.com/item/1/edit?ctf[NivoSliderItems][start]=0&ctf[NivoSliderItems][per_page]=10&ctf[NivoSliderItems][showall]=0&ctf[NivoSliderItems][sort]=&ctf[NivoSliderItems][sort_dir]=&ctf[NivoSliderItems][search]=&ctf[NivoSliderItems][filter]=

And that link just doesn't work.
Is it possible at all to use the DataObjectManager in the widget area? Are there any examples out there?

Here's the relevant code for the widget

class NivoSliderWidget extends Widget {

   static $db = array(
      'effect' => "Enum('sliceDown,sliceDownLeft,sliceUp,sliceUpLeft,sliceUpDown,sliceUpDownLeft,fold,fade,random','random')",
      ...
   );

   static $has_many = array('NivoSliderItems' => 'NivoSliderItem');

   public function getCMSFields() {
      $f = new FieldSet(
         new DropdownField('effect',"Effect", singleton('NivoSliderWidget')->dbObject('effect')->enumValues()),
         ...
         new TextField('captionOpacity','Universal caption opacity 0-1'),
         new TabSet("Tabs",
            new Tab("Items",
               new DataObjectManager($this, 'NivoSliderItems', 'NivoSliderItem', array(
                  'Thumbnail' => _t('Image.PLURALNAME'),
                  'Title' => _t('SiteTree.METATITLE'),
                  'Tagline' => _t('SiteTree.METADESC')),
                  'getCMSFields_forPopup'
               )
            )
         )
   );
      return $f;
   }

And the DataObject for the NivoSliderItem looks like:

class NivoSliderItem extends DataObject {
   static $db = array (
      'Title' => 'Text',
      'Tagline' => 'Text'
   );

   static $has_one = array(
      'NivoSliderWidget' => 'NivoSliderWidget',
      'PanelImage' => 'Image',
   'PanelLink' => 'SiteTree'
   );

   static $api_access = true;

   public function getCMSFields_forPopup(){
    $image=class_exists('ImageUploadField')?'ImageUploadField':'FileIFrameField';
    $tree=class_exists('SimpleTreeDropdownField')?'SimpleTreeDropdownField':'HTMLDropdownField';

    $imager=new $image('PanelImage',_t('Image.SINGULARNAME')." ...");

    if($image=='ImageUploadField')$imager->uploadOnSubmit();

      return new FieldSet(
         new TextField('Title',_t('SiteTree.METATITLE')),
         new TextField('Tagline',_t('SiteTree.METADESC')),
         $imager,
         new $tree("PanelLinkID",_t('RedirectorPage.REDIRECTTOPAGE'),"SiteTree")
      );
   }
....

Any idea's?
Btw, the item show is added manually to the database

Best regards,
Ronald

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Login wdget not shown

Chipie — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:31:10 +1300

Hi all, I am new to silverstripe and have been trying to install the login widget using the widget installation tutorial.
So far i can see my sidebar, I have a widget tab in the cms, I can drag the widget over to the right column and refresh and I have succesfully ran dev/build but cannot see the actual widget.

I have added code to the following files:
Page.php
class Page extends SiteTree {

public static $db = array(
);

public static $has_one = array(
"SideBar" => "WidgetArea",
);

function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Widgets", new WidgetAreaEditor("SideBar"));
return $fields;
}

Page.ss

h2>$Title</h2>

      $Content
      $Form
<div id="sidebar">
$SideBar
</div>

When i view the page source my div is shown but its empty.

Has anyone had the same problem?

Thanks

Chipie

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Widget go inactive by logging in a 2. time

wonnepfropfen — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:48:01 +1300

Hello

I again have an issue with my widgets. When I log out and back in to the admin area, the widgets seem to be inactive. I need to refresh the page in order for them to be activated.

Does anybody know why that might happen?

Thank you for your help.

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Re: Unable to uncheck Widget checkbox

streetdaddy — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:40:40 +1300

Same problem still exists in 2.4.6 !!! WTF? Any reason this hasn't been applied to trunk?

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After dragging a widget, its method is not executed anymore [solved]

rob.s — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:11:44 +1300

Hi,

i'm really confused about this really strange behaviour:
I'm working on a music band website with several widgets (for sidebar usage).

I have a custom pagetype that shows a collection of tour dates.
Everything works as expected.

Now there is a widget that shows up the next X dates inside a sidebar.
When this widget is dragged into the widget area and the page is saved - everything is still ok.
But when i drag the widget to a lower position (after an other widget) it does not work anymore.

In detail:
the widget has a method which is called from the widget template:

NextDatesWidget.php

class NextDatesWidget extends Widget {
...
function DateList()
{
Debug::dump('DateList called');
return DataObject::get('Tourdate', "DATE_FORMAT(Datum, '%Y%m%d') >= DATE_FORMAT(NOW(), '%Y%m%d')", 'Datum ASC', NULL, $this->NumberToShow);
}
...

NextDatesWidget.ss

<% if DateList %>
<table id="Next-Dates">
<% control DateList %>
<tr>
<td>$Datum.Format(d.m.Y)</td>
<td>$Ort</td>
</tr>
<% end_control %>
</table>
<% else %>
<div>-no dates found-</div>
<% end_if %>

After initial inserting the widget to the 1st position, the debug output shows up
After dragging the widget to an lower position, there is no debug output, even though the template is rendered.
And it shows the else condition "no dates found".

Very confusing ....
Any ideas ?

Greeting, Robert

Edit:
maybe a related thread?
http://www.silverstripe.org/widgets-2/show/17518

Edit2:
Like posted in this thread: http://www.silverstripe.org/widgets-2/show/16123

My /themes/mytheme/templates/WidgetHolder.ss file had the following content:

$Content

i had to wrap a "unique" named div around:

<div class="$ClassName">
$Content
</div>

Now it works ....

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Re: Is there a way to keep widgets on the right side?

venofiona — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:40:42 +1300

nevermind i figure it out...was just a css file lol

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Is there a way to keep widgets on the right side?

venofiona — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:20:16 +1300

Im using the blackcandy theme and the widgets manager module.

It seems like the widgets are always on the left unless the page has a child. As in the home page widgets are on the left but the product category widget is on the right. And if i add a widget to a page with a child it doesnt show at all except for the shopping cart widget that came with ecommerce module.

So is there a way to make them all on the right side so it doesnt interfere with the navigation? Seems like a simple case of removing an if statement somewhere...

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Re: Slideshow widget

jpmcc — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:34:49 +1300

This is exactly what I was looking for. Just a few tweaks:

$options = array();

I changed to :

$options = '<option value="0">Please select an image</option>';

to provide an empty selection, otherwise the first image is already selected, and if it was saved, potentially the wrong image would be saved.

Also just to note that when adding the field to the widget, the image field ID should be specified, so if:

//My Widget

static $has_one = array(
'MyWidgetImage' => 'Image'
);

//when adding the field

$widgetImageField = new WidgetImageField('MyWidgetImageID', 'My Widget Image');

Cheers for sharing this!

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A single widget area instance shared across whole site (not 1 widget area instance per page)...

vwd — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:29:00 +1300

Hi,

The site we're building at the moment will have an identical widget area instance across all pages of the site. Previously, we had the widget area added to the Page class, but obviously this meant that each Page object/child will have its own instance of a widget area.

So if we were to have the same widgets across all the pages, we would have to manually add them to each page via the Widget editor tab.

To have a site-wide widget area instance, we've decorated SiteConfig with the widget area. Now we get a widget area under SiteConfig, and whatever widgets we add here should be shared across the site.

CustomSiteConfig.php

class CustomSiteConfig extends DataObjectDecorator {
function extraStatics() {
return array(
'has_one' => array(
'SiteWideWidgetArea' => 'WidgetArea'
)
);
}

public function updateCMSFields(FieldSet $fields) {
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Widgets", new WidgetAreaEditor("SiteWideWidgetArea"));
}
}

Template: eg Page.ss

<snip>
$SiteConfig.SiteWideWidgetArea
<snip>

Is there anything wrong with this approach?

And also, in the past, some have commented that they've had difficulty to have 1 Widget area per page... But it hasn't been a problem getting more than 1 widget area... Are we doing the right thing here? Seems legit...

Page.php

class Page extends SiteTree {

public static $has_one = array(
"BottomWidgetArea" => "WidgetArea",
"Bottom2WidgetArea" => "WidgetArea"
);

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

$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Widgets", new WidgetAreaEditor("PageWidgetArea"));
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Widgets2", new WidgetAreaEditor("AnotherPageWidgetArea"));

return $fields;
}
}

Template: page.ss

<snip>
$PageWidgetArea
$AnotherPageWidgetArea
<snip>

Thanks for your input...

VWD.

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Re: Can Widgets use $SiteConfig

Willr — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:39:13 +1300

Checkout the code and you'll get a sense of what extra things it does (why you you should use it!)

https://github.com/silverstripe/sapphire/blob/2.4/core/model/SiteConfig.php#L153

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Re: Can Widgets use $SiteConfig

Matty Balaam — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:14:19 +1300

Thanks Willr, I had got around this by using DataObject::get_one("SiteConfig"). I like to do things the "right" way if possible, so are there advantages to using the code you've posted?

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Re: Can Widgets use $SiteConfig

Willr — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:49:42 +1300

No I don't believe widgets can. They're encapsulated from the site from the looks of it.

If you want to access the SiteConfig you can add a function on your widget class that pulled it down

function SiteConfig() {
return SiteConfig::current_site_config();
}

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Re: $SiteConfig.XX in Widget template?

Matty Balaam — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:57:37 +1300

I managed to fix the problem above.

In my WidgetHolder.SS I just had

$Content

However, it seems that $Content needs to be in a uniquely named div, so this did the trick:

<div id ="$ClassName">
$Content
</div>

Thank you for your help earlier swaiba.

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Re: $SiteConfig.XX in Widget template?

Matty Balaam — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:05:15 +1300

Ah I see.

It's a shame you can't access SiteConfig by default though, as it does (to me at least) seem like a natural place to keep side-wide info.

Regarding my other problem, I've tried that on a different Silverstripe site and i can't replicate the problem, so there must be something else going on.

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Re: $SiteConfig.XX in Widget template?

swaiba — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:01:22 +1300

This is not a bug, it is a question of context/scope.

When you are in the page contect you get the contentcontroller (search "function SiteConfig" in saphire to find the function. When you are in teh widget you are in the WidgetController - two different contexts.

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Re: $SiteConfig.XX in Widget template?

Matty Balaam — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:44:15 +1300

What I have found to partly work is this:

   public function SiteConfigInWidget () {
      return DataObject::get_one("SiteConfig");
   }

I can then either use a control block or $SiteConfigInWidget.XX to get the info. This works fine and as expected.

HOWEVER, if I then have another widget below this one, which also tries to get a dataobject, the first time I use a control block or $SiteConfigInWidget2.XX I get no result. The second time, however, I do.

Running a $SiteConfigInWidget2.Debug in the template gives me the following for the first time:

Name:SiteConfigInWidget2
Table:
Value:

Am I just being stupid here? Have I missed something out?

I'm still wondering why I can't just used $SiteConfig however. Is this expected, or a bug in Silverstripe?

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Re: $SiteConfig.XX in Widget template?

swaiba — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:57:04 +1300

could do something like this in a function int he widget controller?

$doSiteConfig = DataObject::get_one('SiteConfig');
return $doSiteConfig->SomethingInSiteConfig;

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Re: $SiteConfig.XX in Widget template?

Matty Balaam — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:28:03 +1300

Did you manage to find a solution to this?

I have got around this before using a data object, but surely it should be possible out of the box?

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Can Widgets use $SiteConfig

Matty Balaam — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:04:04 +1300

Hi,

I'm making a simple widget to allow me to link to a page, with a simple description. This will only be on some pages.

To keep this in one area of the CMS so I can alter the text globally I have put the fields into CustomSiteConfig.

However, I can't get widgets to access the data using $SiteConfig.XX

If I put the same code directly into page.ss it works fine.

<?php

class CustomSiteConfig extends DataObjectDecorator {

function extraStatics() {
return array(

'db' => array(
'WidgetDescription => 'Text'
)
,
'has_one' => array(
'WidgetLink' => 'SiteTree'
)
);
}

public function updateCMSFields(FieldSet &$fields) {

$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Main", new TextField('WidgetDescription', 'Widget Description'));
$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Main', new TreeDropdownField("WidgetLinkID", "Widget Link", "SiteTree"));
}

}

Thank you for reading.

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Re: How to add widget on frontpage

CB — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:42:58 +1300

Hi roterl,

I'm trying to use WidgetManager but the widgets does not show on front page I already try it with different themes, blackcandy, itheme, simplestripe, etc. Is there any problem with widget manager and SS 2.4.6 ?

How can I debug this?

Thanks
Carlos

ps. I'm not a real developer

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widgets dissapear after saving second time - Solved

wonnepfropfen — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:58:34 +1300

Hello

I'm using Silverstripe 2.4.6 and I'm struggeling with saving widgets.

I have added widgets to other pages by following the instructions on http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/topics/widgets

It all works fine on my local setup but when moving the website to the server, the widgets disappear if I need to save the them a second time. After saving it only once it's ok. It happens with 3 different widgets, so I don't think it's a matter of the widget.

By the way there is no error note.

Does anyone have an idea, why this happens and how to work around it?

Thank you

I just found out the mistake I did. I tried to use the widgets without installing the blog module.

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