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Maximum Number of Widgets in WidgetArea
12 March 2011 at 3:21am
I'm trying to limit the number of Widgets which get displayed in a WidgetArea.
This always needs to be 6 widgets.I can edit WidgetArea in core to have a maximum of 6 in the getComponents method but i prefer to decorate WidgetArea.
I did the following:
MyWidgetAreaDecorator.php
class MyWidgetAreaDecorator extends DataObjectDecorator {
function extraStatics() {
return array("db" => array('Dummy' => 'Varchar(8)'));
}function WidgetControllers() {
$controllers = new DataObjectSet();foreach($this->ItemsToRender() as $widget) {
// find controller
$controllerClass = '';
foreach(array_reverse(ClassInfo::ancestry($widget->class)) as $widgetClass) {
$controllerClass = "{$widgetClass}_Controller";
if(class_exists($controllerClass)) break;
}
$controller = new $controllerClass($widget);
$controller->init();
$controllers->push($controller);
}return $controllers;
}function ItemsToRender() {
return $this->getComponents('Widgets', "\"Widget\".\"Enabled\" = 1", "", "", 6);
}}
in _config.php:
Object::add_extension('WidgetArea', 'MyWidgetAreaDecorator');
Upon dev/build the Dummy varchar gets added, so the decorator is active. Why doest my limit not work? Any clues?
Best regards,
Bart
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Re: Maximum Number of Widgets in WidgetArea
12 March 2011 at 6:08am
Hi,
just because you decorate doens't mean everything function can be overridden (i think)... best to check that your function is being called...
function ItemsToRender() {
Debug::show('I am here');
return $this->getComponents('Widgets', "\"Widget\".\"Enabled\" = 1", "", "", 6);
}if nothing comes through consider inheriting the class, then overriding your method
class MyWidgetArea extends WidgetArea
putting this in your _config.php
Object::useCustomClass('MyWidgetArea','WidgetArea');
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Re: Maximum Number of Widgets in WidgetArea
12 March 2011 at 6:22am
Thanks swaiba!
It fixed the problem, have to also redefine MyWidgetArea in the pages containing it and refill the Widgets but is works!
The debug did not show when decorating it. Is there any rule when to use decorators and what they can extend?
Cheers,
Bart
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Re: Maximum Number of Widgets in WidgetArea
12 March 2011 at 6:29am
it is something to do with the core class calling $this->extend('methodname'); in the methodname that can be decorated... do a search for $this->extend in sapphire and you will see all the usual suspects that get decorated.
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