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Using a dropdown in CMS to change css file

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mschiefmaker

Community Member, 187 Posts

10 May 2009 at 10:12pm

I have added a dropdown to my CMS to allow the administrator to choose the background colour of a page.

class Page extends SiteTree {

public static $db = array(
'BgColour' => 'varchar'
);

public static $has_one = array(
);

function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Main", new DropdownField('Background', 'Background Colour',singleton('PageColourScheme')->dbObject('BgColour')->enumValues()
), 'Content');

return $fields;
}
}

class PageColourScheme extends DataObject {
static $db = array(
"BgColour" => "Enum('Pink, Purple, Green, Yellow','Pink')"
);
};

This all seems to work fine but the script that detects the colour selected and then applies the right css file to the page

<% if BgColour=Pink %>
<% require themedCSS(pink_layout) %>
<% else %>
<% require themedCSS(green_layout) %>
<% end_if %>
fails in that both lines are returned in the template i.e. I get

I have a similar version of this script running so that the administrator can chose the header which is applied so I am guessing that this issue has something to do with it being in the <head> section of the script. Can I do this? If so where am I going wrong?

Thanks

mschiefmaker

Community Member, 187 Posts

11 May 2009 at 7:36am

Worked this out. Moved the if statement into the controller
class Page_Controller extends ContentController {

public function init() {
parent::init();
if ($HeaderSetup == Pink) {
Requirements::themedCSS('pink_layout');}
else {
Requirements::themedCSS('green_layout');}
}
Cheers

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