External PHP Application

[d_cee]

I'm using the 'External PHP Application' plugin to display a gallery and I'd like to assign a category to the page. Is this possible?

Cheers

Dave

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

What would you like to achieve with that? Only entries can be assigned to categories, actually...

But if you tell me what you want to do with that, I might be able to tell you how to solve it differently

Regards
Garvin

[d_cee]

Hi Garvin

Hi!
What would you like to achieve with that? Only entries can be assigned to categories, actually...

But if you tell me what you want to do with that, I might be able to tell you how to solve it differently

I'm using the sidebar hider to display a link of links (HTML nugget) when somebody clicks on the portfolio section of my website - the sidebar links are all different sections of the portfolio that use an external PHP gallery application. Because I can't allocate a category to the external PHP gallery pages the links are hidden again when the portfolio is being viewed. I'd like the links to be visible.

I hope that's clear
thanks
Dave

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Ah. I see.

Well, the short answer: It's not possible without much coding effort.

But the longer and more good answer: You can achieve it by editing your sidebar.tpl template file.

The you can add an IF-Statement like:

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{if $item.title == 'Your title of the HTML nugget' && $staticpage_pagetitle != 'Your title of the external app'}
...show the plugin
{else}
...show nothing
{/if}

A tad dirty, but it works fast at last.

Best regards,
Garvin

[d_cee]

Hi Garvin

I'd love to have made this work without coming back but I just couldn't
my sidebar.tpl now looks like this

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{if $is_raw_mode}
<div id="serendipity{$pluginside}SideBar">
{/if}
{foreach from=$plugindata item=item}
    <div class="serendipitySideBarItem container_{$item.class}">
        {if $item.title != ""}<h2 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}">{$item.title}</h2>{/if}
        {if $item.title == 'Portfolio Links' && $staticpage_pagetitle != 'gallery.html'}
<h2 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}">{$item.title}</h2>{/if}
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">{$item.content}</div>
    </div>
{/foreach}
{if $is_raw_mode}
</div>
{/if}

permalink: /pages/gallery.html
my url shorthand name: 'Portfolio - design for print'
html nugget: Portfolio Links

so I'm guessing I've done something wrong

cheers - and thanks
Dave

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Hm, try this instead:

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{if $is_raw_mode}
<div id="serendipity{$pluginside}SideBar">
{/if}
{foreach from=$plugindata item=item}
    <div class="serendipitySideBarItem container_{$item.class}">
        {if $item.title != ""}<h2 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}">{$item.title}</h2>{/if}

        {if $item.title == 'Portfolio Links' AND $staticpage_pagetitle == 'gallery.html'}
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">This Nugget is hidden, because Portfolio Links are not visible in the gallery.</div>
        {else}
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">{$item.content}</div>
        {/if}
    </div>
{/foreach}
{if $is_raw_mode}
</div>
{/if}

I added some verbose text which you might want to remove when it works

Regards,
Garvin

[d_cee]

Hi Garvin

hmmm - my sidebar now looks like this screenshot and, unfortunately I still don't have my HTML nugget showing

cheers

dave

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Uh, that's weird. I wouldn't know where those "?" are coming from. Can you show me the URL to that, so that I could have a look at the HTML output?

Regards,
Garvin

[d_cee]

Hi Garvin

I guessed that wasn't supposed to happen
the url is http://bankcreative.com

thanks

dave

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I'd say you did a bad copy+paste of the code or saved the file in UTF-16 Format inproperly? Try to do it again and save the file in ASCII/ANSI mode?

However, you will need to also set the HTML Nugget to display on all pages/categories now. You cannot restrict it to a category using the sidebarhider plugin anymore; you will need to exclude this plugin via the .tpl file.

Best regards,
Garvin

[d_cee]

Hi Garvin
don't know what we'd do without you

I'd say you did a bad copy+paste of the code or saved the file in UTF-16 Format inproperly? Try to do it again and save the file in ASCII/ANSI mode?

Thanks - it's great now

you will need to exclude this plugin via the .tpl file.

how do I do that? I tried

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        {if $item.title != "" AND $categories != 'portfolio' }<h2 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}">{$item.title}</h2>{/if}

but it didn't work of course. Maybe I should stick to CSS?

cheers
Dave

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I think you cannot use $categories, I don't think this variable is declared. You might need to check a categoryid variable; please have a look in the variable documentation on www.s9y.org? Apart frmo that the check you did is the right direction

But you must pay attention where you add this if() check, because you are currently putting it into the if-clause of the item.title output. But what you want is to block the output if item.content instead (like in the code snippet I gave you)

Best regards,
Garvin

[d_cee]

Thanks Garvin

I'll try and sort it out tonight as I'm off home now. With a bit of luck and a fair wind I won't need to bother you again - he says hopefully

cheers

Dave

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

No problem, just have a try. If you don't manage anything, just come back here next week with your latest code version, and we'll sort it out together.

Best regards,
Garvin

[d_cee]

Hi Garvin

I got close but no cigar! My sidebar.tpl now looks like

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{foreach from=$plugindata item=item}
    <div class="serendipitySideBarItem container_{$item.class}">
    {if $category_info.categoryid != '2' AND $item.title == 'Portfolio Links'}
    <h2 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}">{$item.title}</h2>
    <a href="#">click here to go to our portfolio</a>
    {else}
        {if $item.title != "" }<h2 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}">{$item.title}</h2>{/if}
        {if $item.title == 'Portfolio Links' AND $staticpage_pagetitle == 'gallery.html' }
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">This Nugget is hidden, because Portfolio Links are not visible in the gallery.</div>
        {else}
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">{$item.content}</div>
        {/if}
        {/if}
    </div>
{/foreach}
{if $is_raw_mode}
</div>
{/if}

which is great - it shows the link list in the portfolio section. Unfortunately it no longer shows the links on the gallery pages with the embedded application. I tried every variation of his code I could think of hoping not to be back here this morning, but here I am.

cheers

Dave