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animasola

Community Member, 121 Posts

4 October 2009 at 3:53pm

Hi,

I want a different layout for my hompage so I tried doing what most did when I searched through the forums.

I create a HomePage.php and placed it in mysite/code/:

<?php

class HomePage extends Page {

} 
class HomePage_Controller extends Page_Controller { 
	function init() { 
		parent::init(); 
	} 
}

?>

I then created a HomePage.ss and placed it in themes/blackcandy/templates/Layout/:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >

  <head>
		<% base_tag %>
		<title><% if MetaTitle %>$MetaTitle<% else %>$Title<% end_if %> &raquo; Your Site Name</title>
		$MetaTags(false)
		<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
		
		<% require themedCSS(layout) %> 
		<% require themedCSS(typography) %> 
		<% require themedCSS(form) %> 
		
		<!--[if IE 6]>
			<style type="text/css">
			 @import url(themes/blackcandy/css/ie6.css);
			</style> 
		<![endif]-->
		
		<!--[if IE 7]>
			<style type="text/css">
			 @import url(themes/blackcandy/css/ie7.css);
			</style> 
		<![endif]-->
	</head>
<body>
<div id="BgContainer">
	<div id="Header">
		<div id="HeadContainer">
			<h1>Ateneo Department of Political Science</h1>
		</div>
		<div id="Banner">
		</div>
	</div>
	
	<div id="Nav">
		<div id="Navigation">
			<% include Navigation %>
		</div>
	</div>
	
	<div id="Countdown">
		<div id="Clocks">
		</div>
		<div id="CountdownSide">
		</div>
	</div>
	
	<div id="Container">	  	
	  	<div class="clear"><!-- --></div>
		<div id="Layout">
		  <p>It Works!</p>
		</div>
		
	   <div class="clear"><!-- --></div>
	</div>
	<div id="Footer">
		<% include Footer %>
	</div> 
</div>

</body>
</html>

But it doesn't work, it still shows the default page generated by SilverStripe even though I removed the $Layout from HomePage.ss and replaced it with a simple p tag showing that it works.

Can anyone help? I'm relatively new to coding in SilverStripe. Thanks! :)

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animasola

Community Member, 121 Posts

4 October 2009 at 4:06pm

Oh, I got it working.

I forgot to build the db and change the pagetype. haha. my bad. Thanks!