showing xml icons on sidebar

neil · Post by **neil** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:01 pm

Hi,

Relating to the previous post:
http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5213

I have a minor issue in that I cannot get the XML icons to display within the 'Syndicate this blog' entry within the sidebar.

I've added a full URL in the admin suite, then edited the plugin_categories.tpl file (I assume that this is the correct one).

I can't get anything to show up - only broken links.

Is this because the blog is embedded ?

Thanks
Neil.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:41 am

Hi!

Yes, this is one of the issues I was talking about. As you can see the URL is malformed:

http://www.invidion.co.uk/financial_mon ... /index.rss

It should read like any of those:

http://www.invidion.co.uk/blog/wrapper. ... /index.rss
http://www.invidion.co.uk/financial_wra ... /index.rss

Maybe you can get it to work this way.

Regards,
Garvin

neil · Post by **neil** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:46 pm

Ah,

After banging my head against a wall for the last couple of weeks, I finally grasped the whole point of this.

I set the the relative path and URL to the root directory of my site, and the index file to the 'financial_monkey.php' page which retrieves the wrapper file in the serendipity directory.

Phew.

Thanks for your help on this. Much appreciated.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:13 pm

Hope your head doesn't hurt so much. I'm terribly sorry for not making it so clear in first instance, so it's my fault

Glad that it seems to work out for you now!

Best regards,
Garvin

neil · Post by **neil** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:29 pm

OK,

I'm almost there - but having looked again, not quite.

Firstly, having set everything back to the base URL directory, everything is working OK - but the links at the top of the blog (the <h1> and <h2> entries) point back to the index of the main website - not the blog itself (which is merely one page within the website).

As I don't really want to start sniffing referring pages and redirecting them, is it possible to hardcode the url of the blog in the template pages ?

I attempted to edit index.tpl to change {$serendipityBaseURL} to the actual URL (as this will not change), but this seems to make no difference.

If this can't be done, I can live with it.

Finally, I still can't get the XML icons to appear. They are in the img/ directory in the main templates, and I looked in the admin suite for a directive, but can't get them to appear.

Hmmmm....

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:42 pm

Weird. That should've done it. Could you have missed one? There are five altogether, if you include the ones in the header.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:46 pm

Hi!

Yes, this change could be made to the index.tpl file! Did you make sure you were editing the right file? You must edit the index.tpl in your templates directory!

The problem is that your image link points to this directory:

http://www.invidion.co.uk/templates/car ... mg/xml.gif

but it should read something like

http://www.invidion.co.uk/blog/template ... mg/xml.gif

instead. This comes because of your serendipityHTTPPath setting; you could however hard-wire those paths as well into the plugin_categories.tpl file...but I wonder why the HTTPPath does not point to the real blog dir? Anyways,I guess I'm the one who'S too tired now

Regards,
Garvin

neil · Post by **neil** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:42 pm

OK,

The easy fix to get round this is to create the relevant subdirectories 'templates/carl_contest/img/' under the root directory to hold the 'xml.gif' and other images.

The reason why the HTTP Path does not point (directly) to the blog is I set it as 'http://www.invidion.co.uk/' and the index file as 'financial_monkey.php' (which is the page of the embedded blog)

financial_monkey.php contains the following code:

<?
chdir('serendipity');
ob_start();
require ('wrapper.php');
$blog = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
chdir('..');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<HEAD><TITLE>Financial Monkey</TITLE>
<? include("scripts/toptemplate.php");?>
<? echo $blog;?>
<? include("scripts/footer.php");?>

and wrapper.php (in the serendipity directory) contains:

<?
require ('index.php');
?>

But now I'm not sure which directory is feeding the .tpl files.

I was under the (mistaken) impressive that they were under the 'templates/default/' directory. Obviously not - but if I edit files under the 'carl_contest' directory, it makes no difference either.

The system is obviously getting fed .tpl files from somewhere. I just need to figure out where....

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:03 am

Hi!

The *.tpl files should be fetched from your templates/carl_contest/ directory. Any file that does not exist there is fetched from templates/default/. That means, if for example "comments.tpl" does not exist in carl_contest, it will be fetched from default/comments.tpl...

HTH,
Garvin

neil · Post by **neil** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:57 pm

Thanks,

It should be pretty straightforward to edit these now.

Rgds
Neil.

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