Features / Usability

Posted by jamesoftopiya 13 Mar 2004 23:12 GMT-0000 posts: 175

Hi,

Unless I am compleatly off track about what you are asking here is my thought. I think you mean you just want to have a module displayed in your page. Your (better modules' output) comment makes me think I may be misunderstanding you.!

To display a module in a custom home page.
Make your changes in the templates/tiki-custom_home.tpl file.
Insert the link as noted below and away you go.
The wiki help says...
MODULE Displays a module inlined in page:
{MODULE(module=>modname,align=>left|center|right,max=>,np=>0|1,args...)}{MODULE}
Is this what you mean or are you trying to do something different?

James
ps. I prefer to use a html page for my custom pages because it is easier to add dynamic content and stuff. As well I like to have the html pages with no side bars and as I recall the custom page uses the same layout as the wiki pages.

Posted by Philippe Cloutier 14 Mar 2004 08:48 GMT-0000 posts: 1001

Hi patrick!
James, I think he's asking because he can't use PluginModule since he's not in a Wiki page.
I note that your ps doesn't seem to make sense, can't you add HTML straight in the tpl file?

So to answer patrick, well I had a very related discussion with Ahriman some time ago on IRC.
The discussion should get attached if things go fine :p
The key to this was Smarty's eval function.
There is a lot of crap in this discussion, don't spend your time reading it all!

Posted by jamesoftopiya 14 Mar 2004 15:20 GMT-0000 posts: 175

patvdv sorry if I was sending you off in the wrong direction there! I try to make sure what I am saying works but I get a bit scattered and have a hard time remembering what I have done!

Chealer9: thanks for the help I was getting confused about what I have been doing (with a dozen tw's it is easy) I thought that you could put the modules into a html page but in playing with it today I guess I am wrong.

Can you not put the mod link as a dynamic content and then put that in an html page?

As far as the ps goes. This idea is mostly about how the custom home and html pages relate to the lay out per section settings. They are both as I understand able to do the html but the custom home has no independent per section settings and uses the wiki page settings.

I like to start off some sites with out any of the menus or other clutter but it is nice to have the menus there for the wiki.

James

> Chealer9:
> Hi patrick!
> James, I think he's asking because he can't use PluginModule since he's not in a Wiki page.
> I note that your ps doesn't seem to make sense, can't you add HTML straight in the tpl file?
>
> So to answer patrick, well I had a very related discussion with Ahriman some time ago on IRC.
> The discussion should get attached if things go fine :p
> The key to this was Smarty's eval function.
> There is a lot of crap in this discussion, don't spend your time reading it all!

Posted by Pat VDV 15 Mar 2004 16:42 GMT-0000 posts: 224

Hey Chealer,

Your tip did it! I got it working by including following examplary code in the tiki-custom_home.php file:

$phpfile = 'modules/mod-last_blog_posts.php';
$template = 'modules/mod-last_blog_posts.tpl';
include($phpfile);

if (file_exists('templates/' . $template)) {
        $data = $smarty->fetch($template);
} else {
$data = '';
}

Many thanks!

Regards,

Pat.

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee 30 Mar 2004 05:21 GMT-0000 posts: 4656

> patvdv:
> Hey Chealer,
>
> Your tip did it!

Sorry but could you guys describe how to do this (have a module display from a template) in more detail?

-- Gary