Specifying Custom Layout and Custom Navbar

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:01:45 +0530

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Scott M. Stolz wrote the following post Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:01:57 +0530

Specifying Custom Layout and Custom Navbar

If I remember right, you could specify a different navbar based on the php layout template you were using.

For example, navbar_default.tpl would be used for default.php, and navbar_custompage.tpl would be used for custompage.php.

But that does not seem to work.

This is the code in custompage.php to call the navbar. Does it need any other parameters?

<?php if(x($page,'nav')) echo $page['nav']; ?>

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Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:59:19 +0530

sk@hub.utsukta.org

the nav.php file in include/nav.php has a function:

function nav($template = 'default') {

maybe passing the template argument can help?

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:44:30 +0530 last edited: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:10:07 +0530

Scott M. Stolz

scott@biztechtonics.net

~~I think I solved it. I had to delete the Smarty cache (complied pages).~~

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:40:47 +0530

Scott M. Stolz

scott@biztechtonics.net

Nope. Not solved. It is was pulling the navbar_default.php even though it is using a different PHP template.

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:09:07 +0530

Scott M. Stolz

scott@biztechtonics.net

For example, when we use [template]custompage[/template] in the PDL, it loads custompage.php but does not load navbar_custompage.tpl.

And I am not sure how to pass the variable to the nav function.

This is the code in the PHP template:

<?php if(x($page,'nav')) echo $page['nav']; ?>

I don't see anywhere it calls the nav function directly.

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:50:48 +0530

Harald Eilertsen

harald@hub.volse.no

@Scott M. Stolz It's called from the construct_page() function in boot.php:

    $navbar = Config::Get('system', 'navbar', 'default');
    if ($uid) {
        $navbar = get_pconfig($uid, 'system', 'navbar', $navbar);
    }
  
    if ($comanche && isset(App::$layout['navbar'])) {
        $navbar = App::$layout['navbar'];
    }
  
    if (App::$module !== 'setup') {
        nav($navbar);
    }

So, you either have to set the system.navbar config to your prefered navbar, or you have to set the navbar in the page layout. The App::$layout['navbar'] is populated when parsing the pdl. By adding [navbar]custompage[/navbar] to the pdl in question, that should find it's way to the rendering code, I think. (I haven't tested it.)

In any case, since App::$layout is writable globally1, you can simply just set the layout directly from wherever, including your custom theme, plugins or wherever really. As long as it's not being overwritten by any of these other means.

Yep, that's a bad idea. ↩︎

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:45:49 +0530

Scott M. Stolz

scott@biztechtonics.net

@Harald Eilertsen Thank you. I'll try that.

I found docs about [template] and [theme] but not [navbar]. I did not realize there was a [navbar] option.

Also, if you want to change whether layout and other things are accessible by addons and themes, let me know in development forum. Both my developer and I had to come up with some interesting ways to manipulate Hubzilla by reverse engineering it, and sometimes that is not done the proper way since we have no docs telling us the proper way.

Making such changes might break some of our addons. And it would be nice to know the proper way to do various things.

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:07:38 +0530

Harald Eilertsen

harald@hub.volse.no

@Scott M. Stolz Yeah, the dev docs are mostly lacking or outdated. The only way to find this info is by reading the code.