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• pnFilip
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 03:22 AM

  Dear all,
  we are currently preparing a new public portal using Zikula1.3. Most of the pages will use the Content module. So we have sorted and structured our content into 5 categories (1 general and 4 sub communities). The idea is to use a color corresponding to each community and to also associate specific blocks content.
  In order to do that I now use Page configurations assignment like that:
  
  Content/user/view/pid=2 community1.ini
  
  But, instead of assigning one config to one page, is there a way to specify a Zikula category? Or something more dynamic...
  Thanks for your tips.
  Philippe

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• nestormateo
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 10:16 PM

  From my point of view
  a theme plugin to add a CSS class to the BODY, depending on the category, when Content is displaying a page, should work, but that will need SQL query from the theme, hopefully the same used by Content, so it can be cached
  Just my 2 cents
  
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• pnFilip
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 01:04 AM

  mateo

  a theme plugin to add a CSS class to the BODY

  
  Done and working. I have created theme palette variables in order to load the corresponding CSS styles.
  
  I wanted to assign them automatically via a specific attribute added to each Zikula category but attributes seem not to be part of the accessible template variables (checked with zdebug).
  
  So, as you say I need a SQL request included in the theme to get value. Do you have a sample of an SQL request included in the theme? can I add PHP code? Or I see I can already use $page.categoryId .
  Thanks for your help,
  Philippe
  
  
  
  Edited by pnFilip on Apr 06, 2011 - 02:04 PM.

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• rgasch
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 01:49 AM

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  I wanted to assign them automatically via a specific attribute added to each Zikula category but attributes seem not to be part of the accessible template variables (checked with zdebug).

  
  Why not just use the 'value' category field? It's typically unused and perfectly suitable for this type of use.
  
  Greetings
  R

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• pnFilip
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 03:10 AM

  Yes, this is what I said here :
  

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  Or I see I can already use $page.categoryId .

  
  
  But I wanted to retrieve the color value directly from the category attributes in order to be able to modify them without adding manual tests (if catID=X then $palette=Y) in my theme. Nicer solution, isn't it ?
  Philippe

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• nestormateo
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 11:13 PM

  I suggest a CSS solution, because your solution seems to need an additional DB query (the core may perform 2 queries) to fetch the Category attribute, so, it can be like:
  

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  if (system::getVar('shorturls') == '1' && system::getVar('shorturlstype') == '0') {
      $urlname = $smarty->getRequest()->getGet()->get('name');
      $pageId = ModUtil::apiFunc('Content', 'Page', 'solveURLPath', compact('urlname'));
  } else {
     $pageId = $smarty->getRequest()->getGet()->get('pid');
  }
  $page = ModUtil::apiFunc('Content', 'Page', 'getPage', array('id' => $pageId));
  
  // Possibility 1: build a CSS class
  return ' class="contentcategory-'.$page['categoryId'].'"';

  So you can define the colors on your theme CSS:
  

  Code

  .contentcategory-35 .z-content-page {
      background-color: #XXXXXX;
  }

  and use the plugin in your theme template(s) like:
  

  Code

  <body{pluginname}>

  
  
  But anyways, if you want an editable value via web, you can extend the code of the plugin like this:
  

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  // Possibility 2: extract the category attribute
  $code = '';
  if (!empty($page['categoryId'])) {
      $cat = CategoryUtil::getCategoryByID($page['categoryId'])
      $color = $cat['__ATTRIBUTES__']['contentcolor'];
      $code = "<style>
                  .contentcategory-35 .z-content-page {
                      background-color: $color;
                  }
                 </style>";
  }
  return $code;

  and use the plugin in your theme template(s) inside the head:
  

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  {pluginname}</head>

  
  
  I'm including this code on BlankTheme example code
  Hope it helps
  
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• pnFilip
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 01:22 AM

  Thanks Mateo, I now understand why I need additional SQL request or Content API calls. When I need the body class variable (possibility 1) at this moment the page is not "computed" through the Content module and I don't have access to the template variables $page.categoryId . Is that right?
  Sorry I am a bit slow. Anyway I will try your suggestions.
  Thanks a lot.

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• pnFilip
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 02:53 AM

  I cannot get rid of an error message saying:
  

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  PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function getRequest() on a non-object in ...

  it seems the plugin cannot get the requested URL.

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• nestormateo
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 04:34 AM

  It's Zikula 1.3 right?
  and the Smarty parameter of the plugin should be there so why the error?
  
  

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  smarty_function_pluginname($params, &$smarty) {

  
  
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• pnFilip
  
  

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  Posted: Apr 11, 2011 - 01:51 AM

  It's now working, don't know what happened In between, I have cleared all caches, changed the default theme.
  Thanks, I have used in my theme the same plugin to select the correct the "Login" URL and to activate the CSS class of the corresponding menu item too.
  Great!!!
  Philippe

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