Collections and Single Pages
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Hi,
I am completely new to concrete5 but quite experienced with php. I was recently tasked with assigning a theme to a single page, which I have accomplished through the use of view.php. However, the theme template uses Areas and collections (eg. $a = new Area("Main Content"); $a->display($c);) to display parts of the template. These snippets do not produce any html when the site is rendered, so the final page is missing pieces (like the main nav). I have no idea why it should work for regular pages, but not for single pages, but I'm guessing it's a simple fix. Can anyone help me?
Thanks
I am completely new to concrete5 but quite experienced with php. I was recently tasked with assigning a theme to a single page, which I have accomplished through the use of view.php. However, the theme template uses Areas and collections (eg. $a = new Area("Main Content"); $a->display($c);) to display parts of the template. These snippets do not produce any html when the site is rendered, so the final page is missing pieces (like the main nav). I have no idea why it should work for regular pages, but not for single pages, but I'm guessing it's a simple fix. Can anyone help me?
Thanks
unfortunately, there is no "single page defaults" page, you will have to add it manually
Keeping in mind that I don't know anything about c5, I'm not sure how to do that.
I have the view.php which is basically the same as one of the template php scripts. It's just that the $a->display($c) doesn't produce any html for the single page.
I'm assuming it's because $c isn't being initialized properly. I'm happy to do that manually, but I'm not sure how. Is there some relevant code I can copy into view.php?
I have the view.php which is basically the same as one of the template php scripts. It's just that the $a->display($c) doesn't produce any html for the single page.
I'm assuming it's because $c isn't being initialized properly. I'm happy to do that manually, but I'm not sure how. Is there some relevant code I can copy into view.php?
you add things like the nav through the CMS, go to the page, put it in edit mode and add it
it is the /login page. When I go to the page, the edit box (in top corner) is not there?
the login page is kinda specific and not directly editable within C5 - this you have to do by hardcoding it to the login.php file... you will find the file here:
your_site_folder/concrete5/single_pages/login.php
copy that file into:
your_site_folder/single_pages/
now, you can edit all you want in that file - and if something goes very wrong, you can just delete the file, and the standard login page is shown....
just remember to copy the file into your_site_folder/single_pages to make sure you don't mess with the core file!
Hope that helps!
your_site_folder/concrete5/single_pages/login.php
copy that file into:
your_site_folder/single_pages/
now, you can edit all you want in that file - and if something goes very wrong, you can just delete the file, and the standard login page is shown....
just remember to copy the file into your_site_folder/single_pages to make sure you don't mess with the core file!
Hope that helps!
That does help, but I am still not sure how to hardcode it. It is using this view.php file to be printed as the $innerContent. So really there are these blocks in view.php that aren't being displayed. So I should edit view.php, I assume. But I don't know which blocks to load, nor how to load them.
Is there some way I can look at some code for other pages and copy it? Or can someone explain how to determine which blocks to load, and then how to load them manually?
I assume it is one block per $a->display($c)
The display method sort of confuses me a little bit. If you have several blocks loaded into $c, and you call $a->display($c), does it only display the certain block corresponding to the area name?
Thanks
Is there some way I can look at some code for other pages and copy it? Or can someone explain how to determine which blocks to load, and then how to load them manually?
I assume it is one block per $a->display($c)
The display method sort of confuses me a little bit. If you have several blocks loaded into $c, and you call $a->display($c), does it only display the certain block corresponding to the area name?
Thanks
