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Unique Template
21 November 2012 at 10:12pm
SilverStripe 2.4.7
I was wondering if it is possible to create a completely unique template within SS?
What I want to do is scrape the markup from another site, echo out that markup and put a control block in one of the divs. I have the scraping working in php but I'm not sure how to proceed. Should this be a method in the controller that I call within the URL?
I have tried a few things but the default CSS of page gets applied. My knowledge on templates isn't extensive enough to know whether this is even possible.
Thanks in advance.
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Re: Unique Template
22 November 2012 at 7:21am
Hi there,
In your method you can use the ->renderWith('templateNameHere') to allow you to render the output with a specific template. This way you can set the template up however you like.
For example
return $this->customise(array('AllBooks' => $AllBooks))->renderWith('MyCustomTemplateName');
You can pass in as many DataObjectSets or ArrayData as you like for the template.
return $this->customise(
array(
'absoluteURL' => Director::absoluteBaseURL(),
'isFollowing' => $this->isUserFollowing($URLSegment),
'profileData' => $profileData,
'activityData' => $this->getUserActivity($URLSegment),
'collectionData' => $collectionData,
'MenuTitle' => $MenuTitle,
'URLSegment' => $URLSegment,
'checkUser' => $this->checkUser()
)
);As you can see with this second one I am passing in a lot more information for the template (but on this occasion I am using the default template). But all I would need to do is add this to the code and it would render with a custom template
->renderWith('MyCustomTemplateName');
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Re: Unique Template
22 November 2012 at 10:23pm
That's great. Thanks. But will that template be free from the default CSS in SilverStripe? I think I need to set up a method in my page controller to scrape the html I need, return it as strings, use control blocks to add those strings to the template and then use a control block to pull data out of my database.
It seems logical enough in my head but anything I put in the template is styled with BlackCandy's CSS.
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Re: Unique Template
23 November 2012 at 10:54am
You'll need to have a look at where the stylesheet is being included. Is it included in Page.php?
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Re: Unique Template
23 November 2012 at 11:52pm
Yes, it is. Thanks for your help. I chose an alternate solution for this but it's good to know how to show a different template anyway.
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