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problem with menu in tutorial 1

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servalman

Community Member, 211 Posts

5 January 2009 at 7:42am

I'm trying to learn to use thi cms so I started with tuto 1 ;)

I installed evrything fine and idi the first step ok.

Now I'm stuck with the menu 1 step, Tough I followed expalnation it doesnt appear (I did flush and get the database & template list ok) this is how my Page.ss looks like :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!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 %>
$MetaTags
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="tutorial/css/layout.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="tutorial/css/typography.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="tutorial/css/form.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="Main">
<ul id="Menu1">
<% control Menu(1) %>
<li><a href="#">$MenuTitle</a></li>
<% end_control %>
</ul>
<div id="Header">
<h1>$Title</h1>
</div>
<div id="ContentContainer">
<div id="Content" class="typography">
$Content
$Form
</div>
</div>
<div id="Footer">
<span>Visit <a href="http://www.silverstripe.com" title="Visit www.silverstripe.com">www.silverstripe.com</a>; to download the CMS</span>
</div>
</div>
$SilverStripeNavigator
</body>
</html>

Thanks for help.

One suggestion maybe there should be a tutorial section in the forum

Carbon Crayon

Community Member, 598 Posts

5 January 2009 at 8:40am

Hi Servalman, Welcome to silverstripe :)

Try removing the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> at the top of the page, I know it has caused me problems before. Also you should remove the <link> tags and place them in your Page_Controller class by adding them the init() function like this

class Page_Controller extends ContentController {
	function init() {
		parent::init();
		
		Requirements::themedCSS("layout");
		Requirements::themedCSS("typography");
		Requirements::themedCSS("form");
	}
}

try them first and if it still doesn't work then we can look a bit deeper :)

servalman

Community Member, 211 Posts

5 January 2009 at 9:30pm

Removing the XML dÃ©claration on top of document worked ok.
I did not try to put the <link> tags in the controler page because I did not complete the second tutorial
wich deals with more advanced notions, but I will try to smoe point for sure.

One more question if I remove the XML declaration on top of page, I'm right to think that it is not an xml doc anymore wich can be a problem for me ?

But thanks again I will move on with the tuto

Carbon Crayon

Community Member, 598 Posts

6 January 2009 at 2:07am

Edited: 06/01/2009 2:13am

hmm, having read some stuff I still cant seem to find a definite answer, but my instinct tells me the browser would have trouble reading an XML document without it.

I always remove this line as it sends IE6 into quirks mode which causes CSS problems and I have never used true XML in a site so I'm not really the best person to ask.

Anyone else know more about this?

servalman

Community Member, 211 Posts

6 January 2009 at 3:30am

I'll keep posted if it happens again

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