I'm working on an ajax-based Wordpress site and I want to know if there is a way to get a particular page content with theme structure applied in.
One workaround is to use
wget
or
file_get_contents(page_url)
but it'd be cleaner to use Wordpress built-in functions.
Thanks.
I'd go with file_get_contents. I'm not aware of a built-in WP function to do this, but even if there was one I would expect it to be based on file_get_contents
FYI, don't use any of these methods I mentioned above because it's way too slow. I ended up utilizing the Loop and include_once(); to get the content with the theme structure.
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I just want to create custom html with good css form with my own php as backhand code and javascript for validation.. Is there any extension for this?
I have seen few extensions but none of them allows me to add my own php backhand code.
Thanks
If you are not going to use Joomla's framework, then you may as well build the form outside of joomla and insert it into the article via an iframe (you may need to change the editor's permissions to allow you to do this).
It is worth looking into using the framework properly, however, as it does have easy-to-use mail classes and actually makes things easier when you get your head around it.
(Though to answer your actual question - this module appears to allow you to add raw php http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-enhancements/coding-a-scripts-integration/custom-code-in-modules/3668 )
I am trying to create a one-page WordPress website, something like the ones you sometimes see in ThemeForest's WP section: the whole website is a long page that has everything in one place, from about us, to portfolio, to some blog posts, to contacts.
Placing all things on one page is not difficult. But when I started thinking about how to present individual posts and pages, I realised that I probably need a general way of getting posts' data via AJAX, and create new blocks with JS. How should I go about this? I suppose this was done before, but I struggle to find something this specific on Codex or a tutorial with best practices.
Any advice or link will be greatly appreciated.
You could use a plugin such as jQuery Easytabs, download it here, that has a built-in Ajax component.
I've found that the easiest way is to just get all content to load into the divs ahead of time, vs. trying to load all pages through Ajax. However, appending something like '?ajax/ajax' to the end of your urls through the Easytabs plugin is one option that I have successfully used in the past.
If you decide to use the easytabs functionality, there is ample documentation on the page that I linked to.
I believe Smarty templates has functionality built in that allows you to manage your site URLs from a config file so if something gets moved, you only have to update the URL in one place. Does this sort of functionality exist in CodeIgniter? If not, any pointers or examples on how/where to add it?
For example:
Instead of hard-coding the link it would be: Settings
But where would you want to set $links so that it was available everywhere? Or is it really best to just hard code them?
Take a look at the config class. It allows you to make custom config files.
It's not entirely made for URL's but you sure can use them.
The base url should be basically right at the start of /app/config/config.php, where app is the name of your codeigniter application folder. You access it through calls to the base_url() function.
Yes, it's called Routes, configuration located at config/routes.php. Documentation
If you ask about the rendered html of the links, then your best bet would be using site_url() in conjunction with constants, for example site_url(URL_SETTINGS);, there is no built in functionality for that, but I can say I don't think that is necessary as it would be used too rarely, but it would influence performance every single load.
In the views in codeigniter, we can write code for forms using codeigniter. For example for an url the code in codeigniter is:
<?php
anchor('site/myfunction','Send');
?>
My question is whether is better write this code with html in the views:
Send
It's an example, but the question is with all HTML helpers for views. CodeIgniter's user guide suggests to use PHP functions rather than code html. The php code requests to the server while html does not. Is better use the CodeIgniter for HTML? I don't know if when I use CodeIgniter's helpers, the framework has contemplated these requests.
I apologize for my english. Thanks for your answer.
The reason you want to use CodeIgniters library is for the ability to quickly modify your HTML elements site-wide with very little work. For instance, let's say you wanted all <a> tags on your site to have a class added called "ajax". Using the anchor helper, you can accomplish this easily.
That said, I don't really foresee many solutions where you will be changing HTML elements site-wide. With semantic HTML, CSS, and Javascript I think you will be perfectly fine without having to use CodeIgniters HTML helpers. Also in my opinion your code will be much more readable. Use HTML.
Regarding performance
When you say "code php does requests to the server while html, no" you're wrong because whenever someone visits your site they are requesting the server. The question here is how much work the PHP engine is doing versus just your normal webserver. In this case, a function call is trivial for PHP and shouldn't be considered performance wise.
Regarding urls
The answer by Pi is focused on the fact that URL resolution in CodeIgniter can be weird, but with proper .htaccess or web.config configurations you should be able to use vanilla hrefs without using CodeIgniter functions.
You should not use
Send
Because it might not work everywhere. But if you use this:
Send
There will be no big difference. Pure HTML is a bit faster but unless you have a high traffic website that does not matter. Using the CI function is nice if you are in a library because you do not want to mix PHP and HTML to much to keep up the Model-View-Controller concept. What you use in a view is a matter of style what you like more.
Personally I think the codeigniter form functions are not very good and I am often use html instead.
How can I place a banner on webpage with one application to all pages of a website?
One way of doing this is to put your banner into a file, then include that one on each of your other pages. This way, you only have to change the code in one place to update the banner site-wide.
So, a PHP example would be:
banner.inc.php:
<?php
// echo out banner here...
?>
Then, on your other pages:
include("banner.inc.php");
You can just create a header file that you include in all your pages, and include the banner code in it. The solution is pretty much the same in all languages. If your host allows server-side includes, you can even do exact same thing with (nearly) pure HTML. You can also do it with JavaScript pretty easily.
Do you have a global template for all your pages? Something where the basic structure of all your pages is defined while the specific stuff is filled into parts of the body? If you had something like this you could modify the global template to have the banner you want and it would show on all your pages.
Google "html templating" for more.
I recommend using master pages. That way if you have something that has to be changed globally across the project you only have to change it in one place. And they are really simple to use.
If your web server is IIS, and you know a smidge of CSS you can do this without perl, without touching any other files, but at the cost of some performance.
IIS allows you to insert an HTML snippet into anything served:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/e27f918e-89a9-45a8-8604-2ad2ded09d64.mspx?mfr=true
If said footer file, had CSS which shoved it to the top, then you would get the behavior you are looking for.
Please note, that this is NOT an ideal solution, but it is a quick and dirty patch until you can go back and retrofit all of your pages with a master page or something similar.
If it really should be on every page of your site, I'd argue that it's part of the site design rather than the content itself. In this case, you are easily justified in setting a background-image in your css. Of course, you probably then still have to have some sort of place-holder element in your html, but at least you could update the whole site together.
Well, hopefully you would have designed the website so that if you need to change something globally, you can just edit a header or footer file.
If not, I would use Perl to go through all the files, and do a search and replace.