How to create right structure of the index.php file in your template
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This publication is devoted to the index.php file. We will suggest how to organize its structure.
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How to create right structure of the index.php file in your template
- 1. How to create right structure of the index.php file in your template Some practical pieces of advice
- 2. Today’s publication is devoted to the index.php file. We will suggest how to organize its structure.
- 3. Index.php is a main file of your template. It contains of basic HTML markup and some PHP code. Here we will try to describe main things that you have to know about how to do good foundation of your new template. First of all you have to forbid direct access to this file: // no direct access defined( ‘_JEXEC’ ) or die( ‘Restricted access’ ); It is always good to set some variables before HTML code. Define path to your template so you could use it further: $tpath = $this->baseurl.’/templates/’.$this->template; Init application object: $app = JFactory::getApplication(); And get template parameters: $params = $app->getParams();
- 4. Usually you want to include some CSS and JS files for your template. To do this you have to initialise Document object and call addStyleSheet and/or addScript methods: $doc = JFactory::getDocument(); $doc->addStyleSheet($tpath . ‘your_css_folder/your_cool_styles.css’); $doc->addScrypt($tpath . ‘your_js_folder/megascript.js’); Next we have to insert common head for HTML files with DOCTYPE definition: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1transitional.dtd”> <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”<?php echo $this->language; ?>” lang=”<?php echo $this->language; ? >” >
- 5. After that we can include Joomla head content. <head> <jdoc:include type=”head” /> </head> <jdoc:include /> Main structure makes possible for you to show modules, component, messages etc. on pages of your template. Inside <body> tags you can use <jdoc: include/> structure to show modules, component, messages etc. on pages of your template.
- 6. System messages: <jdoc: include type=”message“/> Modules, for example search module: <jdoc:include type=”module” name=”search” /> Search in this case is a position in your template described in templateDetails.xml file. For modules you can also define “style” attribute. <jdoc:include type=”module” name=”leftmenu” style=”xhtml”/>
- 7. Style may be one of these: xhtml – each module as separate div element table – modules will be shown as a table with one column horz - modules will be also shown as a table but horizontally each module in own cell rounded – modules are shown in div elements with a border and rounded corners none – module content is shown without title and container
- 8. Good coding style is to hide markup of inserting modules: <?php if($this->countModules(‘search’)) : ?> <div id=”search”> <jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”search” style=”xhtml” /> </div> <?php endif; ?> And of course don’t forget to include component output: <jdoc:include type=”component” /> Source of the article
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- This presentation was made on the base of the blog post - http://tonytemplates.com/blog/?p=364