Is there a simple way to hook into the Magento widget rendering feature on something other than CMS block or page?
I have a tooltips extension to display tooltips on custom options. There will be lots of products all with the same options and all needing the same tooltip text. While the tooltip extension we're using provides a means to declare snippets that can then be used on products, the snippets are added to individual products at setup time rather than referencing the single snippet instance. Thus if the tooltip content needs to change across all products we have to edit the snippet and then reapply the modified snippet to all products.
It would be preferable to be able refernce the snippet direct rather than just using it at product setup, but that's not how it works. So an alternative would be to include a static block in the tooltip description and reference the single description instance with our theme's already provided widget feature that works for on CMS pages e.g. {{widget type="cms/widget_block" template="cms/widget/static_block/default.phtml" block_id="xx"}}, where xx is the block created for this tooltip.
This needs the tooltip HTML description parsed through whatever it is in Magento that parses content HTML and processes any widget directives it contains.
I tried the following, where $tipstext is the tooltips HTML containing the widget directive, but no go. Didn't think it would be that simple!
Mage_Cms_Model_Template_Filter::filter($tipstext);
Anyhone have any idea if/how this could be achieved easily?
The class Mage_Cms_Model_Template_Filter does not have a widgetDirective method so it does not know how to parse {{widget}} short codes. Try instead Mage_Widget_Model_Template_Filter:
Mage::getSingleton('widget/template_filter')->filter($text);
This should work
<?php
$filter = new Mage_Widget_Model_Template_Filter();
$_widget = $filter->filter('{{widget type="cms/widget_page_link" template="cms/widget/link/link_block.phtml" page_id="2"}}');
echo $_widget;
?>
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I've created a custom hook, so that I can include my custom module in any .tpl file by a single line: {hook h='calcSubstrate'}.
However, I can't use it in CMS page, at least not by using the admin panel - including smarty code in a CMS page won't render, the code would appear just as it is, as a text: {hook h='calcSubstrate'}.
Alternatively, if that would be easier/faster - how can I choose on which pages my module would appear?
The editor for CMS page won't recognize any Smarty code. To include hooks in chosen articles/pages, I can think of two options:
Include the hook in the template (cms.tpl), and check for the id of the current page to conditionally display the module. The list of the page ids can be made as the module's configuration.
Build a module to add functionality similar to Wordpress's shortcode to the CMS content. I do this with module instead of overriding the CmsController class, hence I have to display the content with {$cms->content|module}. You can look at the simplified code here for inspiration: https://gist.github.com/tungd/cef0ca1ac1063c1ee90b. Of course you can make it more generic like Wordpress, by having only one Smarty modifier do_shortcode that does everything (just like Wordpress's do_shortcode function).
Last time I did this it was because my client want to put slideshows in some CMS pages, and I chose the second approach because it gives a lot of flexibility about when the module is displayed and where it is displayed between the content. For something else, for example Contact Form, or Map, this would be overkill and the first approach is better.
I managed to do this by using an override for the category blog (com_sontent/category/tmpl/blog.php). There I used the following to differentiate between paginated and not-paginated content and to hide/show code elements via CSS.
<div class="category-desc pages<?php echo $this->pagination->get('limitstart'); ?>">
I would like to apply the same method to my template's index.php, for example wrap the component output in a container with a CSS class name indicating if the content is broken up into several pages or not.
This would make it possible to hide side bars from a paginated blog main page, whereas they would show in single (unpaginated) articles linked to from this page.
Unfortunately, my knowledge of PHP barely exists.
I want to put login module in to modal popup. But when I use class="modal" whole page gets loaded in to modal. Can you show me the way to put only module.
This stands also for displaying articles in modal.
here is the link with problem
I do this fairly often and there are two tricks that can help make this work better. First you will likely want to add tmpl=component to your url. This causes Joomla to only display the article instead of the entire template (as long as your template supports this, most do).
This should do pretty well. If you want to get even more selective, you can do one of two things:
Add CSS to hide pieces
.modal-body .other-selector {
display:none;
}
Use Javascript to select only the piece that you want
$('#myModal').on('show', function () {
// selects a piece of the current modal body and sets it as the only content of the modal
$('#myModal .modal-body').html($('#myModal .modal-body').find('.other-selector).html());
})
The way you can only display the component is to add an extra parameter tmpl=component in the url.If you'll see the component.php inside your template folder that has mainly <jdoc:include type="component" /> with no module position.So it'll load only component.
I did not try for module but you can try similar for module.So you can try it by just giving the position of the module in whole template like create a new page called modules.php in your template folder and put the module position inside this page.And you call it in a similar way just like component like tmpl=modules
I hope this will work.
It was problem with my templates component.php file. I just added inside and now it works fine. Thanks guys
I’m trying to display the menu title text (example “Home”) in the header area of my Joomla 2.5 website.
Joomla’s default (when activated) is to place it in the Component area.
I’m not sure the best way to accomplish this. By default Joomla wraps the menu title with an H1 tag but doesn’t wrap it with a div and class.
The ways I’ve thought might be best to do this are:
Somehow wrap all menu titles with a div and class so I could reposition them up into the header with css .
Add some php code to my template. Something like:
php
$menuTitle = $this->params->get(‘fieldNameOfMenuTitle’);
php
echo = $menuTitle;
Any ideas, suggestions, or answers would greatly appreciated
Thanks
Never found an exact answer but found a work around.
Used a modified version of the below demo/plug-in to create a custom field (named it: "Title that displays on the Web Page") in the articles menu. By default, the table that is created and displayed in the web page is in the component area and is wrapped in a w/ a class. Repositioned the with CSS up into the header/banner area.
http://docs.joomla.org/Adding_custom_fields_to_the_article_component
How can I change the body bg color to and specific article in Joomla?
We accomplish exactly this for a scientific site by specifying the Page Class Suffix when creating a menu item for the article. It's located on the menu option page under Parameters (System), and whatever string you put in there is appended to the class of the page. From there, your CSS skills and Firebug will be your friend to add your class and make changes in the appropriate CSS files.