Is it possible to loop over the plugins in a placeholder? I want to assign each second plugin another class, so the plugins with an "odd number" appear on the left side and the other on the right sites. Is this possible or do I have to right two different plugins?
Good question. It's possible to modify the content of a placeholder programmatically, but I don't know of a way to get to the individual plugins. See http://docs.django-cms.org/en/2.1.3/extending_cms/custom_plugins.html#plugin-context-processors for more info on how to write a custom plugin processor.
You could probably use BeautifulSoup to add the classing you need to the HTML in this fashion.
Another option would be to add the classing via JavaScript, but you would have a slight delay from the time the DOM is rendered until the classing is applied.
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i'm new in cakephp and I have started with version 3. I want to build a beautifull app and because I'm not good in design, I would really like to use a free template or buy one that I can use within cakephp.
So, I would really appreciate all your propositions and ideas or best practises. The easy way will be the best because I don't have a lot of time with this project. Thank you in advance.
If you don't have a lot of time like you mentioned, the easiest way to go ahead and get started is to paste a lot of the code in your default.ctp layout inside of src/Template/Layout/default.ctp.
You'll notice there are some lines of PHP already in there that are relevant to fetching blocks of css, meta tags, and other bits of code that could potentially exist throughout your project.
Find the main layout of the theme your trying to use - the one that will be consistent across most of the pages. That's the one you'll use for default.ctp. Compare what's already in default.ctp and make the comparable adjustments around the HTML in that document while keeping the important lines of PHP there as well.
For other important pages like a login or registration page, just create a new document for those, like 'login.ctp', then inside the function that loads the page (maybe 'login' inside of UsersController'), change the default layout with this line of code:
$this->viewBuilder()->layout('login'); // without the .ctp ending
This way you can create one-off layouts that don't really match any other page.
I'm just starting with Backbone.js. I'm building a Single Page Application and trying to figure out how I can handle this situation.
Depending on the view I'm rendering, I need to output multiple templates, meaning I have a wrapper that I use for the main template, and other 2 templates that go on other parts of the HTML.
I started by manually outputing the templates, but that got me thinking how correct that approach was, as it would require me to manually delete them whenever I navigate to other view.
The question is, How can I effeciently render multiple templates in a single view (that are appended in different places) and still have control over the deletion on the entire view and undelegating its events?
I'd check out Addy Osmani's walkthrough for developing with backbone.js.
http://addyosmani.github.io/backbone-fundamentals/
It walks through the example todo app, and then one more complicated one. What I think you want specifically is to use a framework such as Marionette.js to orchestrate and automate some of the event delegation and removal when you play with your views. If this is the case, skip to http://addyosmani.github.io/backbone-fundamentals/#marionettejs-backbone.marionette and read on about how marionette will help organizing views into regions and layouts as #NathanInMac said.
You need a layout with a couple of regions.
Then put your sub-views in these regions.
I want to convert component to module apart from using plugin is ther any process to handle it.
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whether we should code somethimg to make my mvc component to module .
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is there any possibility to make my component to be placed at desired module position in my template
Regards,
noble
You can't convert a component to a module. A component, module and plugin are all 3 different things. Obviously if your component was something like a simple upload form, then this could be turned into a module but I doubt very much it is.
Nor can you place the component in a module position.
Judging by what you're asking, I am assuming that this is your own custom component, in which case, you should have had a little think and done a little research before you made it and brainstormed your exact requirements.
1st thing You can't convert a component to a module. You have to understand the difference between them
Components are the largest and most complex extensions of them all; they can be seen as mini-applications. Most components have two parts: a site part and an administrator part. Every time a Joomla page loads, one component is called to render the main page body. For example, Content (com_content) is the component which handles the display of content; users can view at the frontend of your site and, as an administrator, you can edit the content. Components are the major portion of your page because a component is driven by a menu item and every menu item runs a component.
Examples: Content (com_content), Banners (com_banners), Contact (com_contact), News Feeds (com_newsfeeds) and Web Links (com_weblinks)
Modules are more lightweight and flexible extensions used for page rendering. These modules are mostly known as the “boxes” that are arranged around a component, for example: the login module. The footer is a module. Modules are assigned per menu item. So, you can decide to show or hide the logon module depending on which menu item the user is viewing. Sometimes modules are linked to components such as the “latest news” module which links to the com_content and displays links to the newest content items. However, modules do not need to be linked to components, as a matter of fact they don't even need to be linked to anything and can be just static HTML or text.
Examples: Banners (mod_banners), Menus (mod_menu), Who's Online (mod_whosonline)
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If you are using Joomla 1.5 then please refer this plugin it does exactly what you want. http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/2723/details
I am trying to learn Coldbox to perhaps replace the current framework I am using. One of the features that I currently use is the ability to override any of the template inclusions by convention.
Essentially, lets say I have a view, "views/home.cfm"
<h1>I am the default theme</h1>
and that is all well and good. But lets say that I have a different view, "themes/[theme-name]/views/home.cfm"
<h1>I am the user chosen theme</h1>
that I want to include conditionally (say there is a cookie to determine what theme is in use). Also, if the file does not exist, the default/fallback view should be rendered.
Is there any way of doing this overriding the system functions?
I looked at interceptors, and the preViewRender and postViewRender interceptors seem like the place to do something like this, but there doesn't seem to be any way of manipulating the actual workflow. If seems to be mainly pre/post processing of the content. For instance, there doesn't seem to be a way to "return false" to tell the renderView method to not actually render the view. Or any way to affect the location in which the view is to be found.
Any ideas?
Tyler,
The ColdBox Framework is quite flexible. It is possible to do what you desire but I don't think modifying renderView() is the best way to resolve this--although, you most definitely can.
I would encourage you to create a User Defined Function in the /includes/helpers/ApplicationHelper.cfm file that contains the logic you require. The functions that are added to this helper file are accessible from anywhere in the framework. This would allow you to create a function called "renderSkin()" that contains the logic you need. RenderSkin() would ultimitly call "renderView()" when you finally figured out which template you wanted to render for that user.
Respectfully,
Aaron Greenlee
I would suggest you go with the interceptor route, but change the layout instead of the view.
From the postEvent interceptor you can get the processedEvent key from the interceptData to change the layout.
Otherwise you could just make the check part of the layout page. The layout can the be a switch statement (or a more OO approach) $including the themed layout files as needed. This has the advantage of giving you a chance to emit custom interception points and having common functionality (css, js)
I'v done a tree view in xsl using a javascript function
I want to change the icons depending on the status (+ for to open , - for to close)
This questions is as clear as thick molasses in a pool of mud. (Will try to answer, though.)
I assume you mean XML stylesheets with xsl. If you meant Excel, it should have been xls. But let's assume you mean stylesheets and you're using it to generate a webpage which contains a treeview. In this treeview there are icons indicating if the node is expanded or not. If expanded, display +, else display -. Am I right, here?
Now, it depends on how you've implemented this treeview in your stylesheet. The most practical way would be to just send the tree data fully expanded to the page and let the Javascript handle this client-side. In that case, all you need to know is how to expand and collapse nodes in Javascript with the additional icon change.
Another possible implementation would be when expanding and collapsing is done serverside, thus you'd only send the visible data. In that case you can also just tell the page which icon to use and there would be no need for any javascript. The icon would just be a link back to the server, updating the data through a new requests which builds a new webpage.
A third option would be the WEB 2.0 solution, where you just send the list as a collapsed treeview and every time the user clicks an icon, a AJAX event gets triggered, collecing the additional node data and changing the icon of the treenode.
These are three very different techniques and they're not always the best solution. The first solution is a problem when dealing with lots of data in your tree. It needs to load it all. The second option will generate a lot more traffic with the server but handles better with large amounts of data because you only display the open node. The third option is a bit of a mixture between the first two options. You don't need all data from the beginning and you're not recreating the webpage over and over again. But it's also more complex to code.
Now, I wonder which of these options you use. Once we know this, we can help you. (Edit your question to provide this information and perhaps even add the JavaScript tag to it.)
To be honest, xsl is only used to change the shape of an XML document and it knows nothing about treeviews or whatever. So I don't see any link between xsl and treeviews. It's just that you use xsl to transform your data into something that some Javascript library can process as a treeview. Which Javascript library is this?