static page plugin

romulus · Post by **romulus** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:35 pm

I have written a static page plugin which you can download from my site:

http://www.romulus23.de/uploads/romulus ... ge-0.3.zip

What does it do?

I'm still wondering why so many blogs only know "articles" with a fixed date which can be posted. This article gets older and older, maybe isn't displayed on the front page anymore, gets spammed and finally forgotten. But I always wanted to have some part of my blog/site that is static, most often used for a "about me" page, but not limited to that. And this page should be displayed in my blog design with normal formatting I have in all my other articles.

And basically, this is what this plugin does. I'm already using this plugin on my site (look into link "über mich" in upper right corner). You can add as many static pages as you want if you add this plugin in the desired number.

Who to thank?

Garvin. He has written almost all of this plugin in this post, though unkowingly

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:01 pm

Hi romulus!

It's fairly easy to apply formatting. You just need to rename

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            $entry = array('staticpage' => $this->get_config('content'));
            serendipity_plugin_api::hook_event('frontend_display', $entry);
            echo $entry['staticpage'];

to

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            $entry = array('body' => $this->get_config('content'));
            serendipity_plugin_api::hook_event('frontend_display', $entry);
            echo $entry['body'];

Because the markup plugins operate on the array key 'body' (or 'extended') to find, where the text is stored in...

Thanks for the contribution, I think several people will find it useful

Regards,
Garvin.

romulus · Post by **romulus** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:45 pm

thanks its working now

Additionally I have added an option to automatically output the text with article formatting (colors, background, borders, and so on).

Maybe you guys should think about to add something like this to 0.8 release, as I really think that coulde be useful for a lot of people.

Hint: to make a nicer URL for a static page you can add the following line to your .htaccess:

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RewriteRule ^pagetitle index.php?serendipity[subpage]=pagetitle

So instead to open this ugly URL http://www.yourblog.com/index.php?seren ... =pagetitle you can now open this nice one: http://www.yourblog.com/pagetitle

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:48 pm

You could also spawn an external hook and then call:

http://www.yourblog.com/plugin/static_aboutme.html

Regards,
Garvin.

romulus · Post by **romulus** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:35 pm

you guys are crazy, do you know that? Is there something s9y can't do? Admit it, there exists some hidden admin area where s9y can cook a perfectly brewed coffee, right?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:49 pm

Well, when there's one thing I am most proud of, it's Serendipity's Plugin Architecture.

))

About the coffee-stuff - I don't do coffee, so I suppose someone else needs to implement that

Regards,
Garvin.

Little Hamster · Post by **Little Hamster** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:07 pm

Nifty plugin!

PS. All the discussions in this thread was so serious that I feel like butting in

romulus · Post by **romulus** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:23 pm

no problem

I have just released version 0.3 (look into first post) and made an englisch info page in my blog: http://www.romulus23.de/s9y-plugins/staticpage-en

davecjr · Post by **davecjr** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:30 am

I was using the static page plugin in version 7 and upgraded s9y to 8 alpha 4 and now the static page shows up at the bottom of the main blog body page. Are there any easy fixes or anyone else using this having the same problem?

Thanks

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 2:06 pm

Sadly you need to upgrade that plugin. Please look here: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/p ... l_plugins/ for the latest version!

Regards,
Garvin

Rembrandt · Post by **Rembrandt** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:20 pm

Hi!

I'm using s9y from the cvs branch and the static page plugin (also from cvs). The plugin works fine, but I want to use "fency" URIs like "http://www.mydomain.tld/static/[i]pagetitle[/i]. I followed the instructions from the plugin creator's homepage to rewrite the URI but at the bottom of the page, s9y places an error-message that the requested document doesn't exist.

TIA,
Rembrandt

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:07 pm

The fancy URLs will only work when using mod_rewrite - do you use that?

Regards,
Garvin

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:30 pm

Yes, I do.
And I put the following line in the .htaccess:

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RewriteRule ^static/(.*) /index.php?serendipity[subpage]=$1

The correct page is displayed - but with an error-msg from s9y.

so long...
Rembrandt

PS: You can see the error-msg at the bottom of plugin creator's homepage (http://www.romulus23.de/s9y-plugins/staticpage-en)

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:47 pm

Ah, okay - I see. I have fixed this issue in CVS, the error is not really usefull there.

Regards,
Garvin.

Rembrandt · Post by **Rembrandt** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:50 pm

garvinhicking wrote:Ah, okay - I see. I have fixed this issue in CVS, the error is not really usefull there.

Regards,

Garvin.

I've tried to find the error and looked in several files. Where was the error?

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