incorporating serendipity into my webpage

[jimmi8]

Hi there,

Im sure you've heard this one many times before...

Ive got serendipity up and running on my machine. Its great-so easy to use.

The thing is i have an existing webpage with its own styles.

I want to incorporate the blog in to it.

Whats the best way to do it. Ive tried viewing the css for the template im using to see how it all works but i cant view it.

Can someone point me in the right direction??

Thanks for any help!!

[garvinhicking]

You might want to search the forum for "embed" and read http://www.s9y.org/44.html and http://www.s9y.org/55.html.

The easiest way for embedding is to make your framework use Smarty and then just use the Smarty templates from Serendipity.

The other way is to just throw in a simple PHP include with a wrapper.php. Search this forum for "wrapper.php" and/or read the docs above.

With all that information, it should get you started

Have fun,
Garvni

[jimmi8]

Hey,

thanks for the links, everythings a little clearer now but in some ways , just as hazy!!

Im about to take the following steps...Could you tell me if im going in the right direction???

1...customise the css-using the subdirectories in the templates- to make the blog look like my homepage.

2...use embed to put the blog in to my site.

Im not sure- am i aiming to create a seperate page for my blog that can then be slipped in as a link on my websote or am i aiming to style the blog so i can insert it in to an existing page??

[garvinhicking]

Hi Jimmi!

You wrote down 2 possibilites that differ frmo each other. Possibility 1 is the easiest way, because you just duplicate the look of your homepage into serendipity. But then you have to maintain two templates if you change your look.

Possibility 2 is the one using embed. This instructs serendipity to not output sidebars, headers and footers and leaves that up to your homepage. This includes the serendipity index.php file and offers its own wrapper.php which you call via http://yourblog/blog/wrapper.php. That wrapper file takes care that your old framework is called and gets a $blog_data variable which contains all of s9y output and that you can simple put in your homepage where you want it.

Then you only need to maintain your own homepage frameowkr/templates and s9y just integrates into it. The links I gave you show you how to get that index.php/wrapper.php stuff going, I hope.

Best regards,
Garvin

[Guest]

Thanks for clearing that up...Stupid me!!

I think i'll use the embed option-if i can work it out!!

Thanks for your help

[Guest]

Hi,

Sorry about the extra post-

Ive read the documentation on the embed option and just about grasped it. Im not very well versed in php, more a html/css designer.

The page that i want to embed the blog in is a html page not a php. The info tells you how to embed it into a php code.

Can you embed the blog in to normal html??

[garvinhicking]

Embedding via HTML only works when you use an iframe:

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<iframe src="http://yourhost/yourblog/" />

But every HTML page can also be a PHP page if you just change the extension to .php or configure your webserver to parse HTML pages.

Regards,
Garvin

[judebert]

You can make Apache parse the HTML files in any directory (and all its subdirectories) by creating/modifying its .htaccess file and adding the following lines:

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Options +Includes
AddHandler server-parsed .html

The first line may not be necessary, but it's what I'm running on my server, so I figured I should mention it just in case.

Judebert