Different frontpage template

richardt · 07.04.2004, 03:45

Hey all,

Love the new forums! I've brought my sleeping bag so I can stay-over and play for the night.

Can anyone suggest a way to display a different template on the frontpage of a site? I'm sure there's a fairly simple hack I can use, but if you have any ideas please let me know!

Cheers!

mamboguy.com · 07.04.2004, 03:53

Please be more specific.
Mambo allows you to choose what template you use, and you can even make your own...

tafkar · 07.04.2004, 04:44

This might help you out.

http://forum.mamboserver.com/viewtop...erent+template

MamboHut · 07.04.2004, 07:58

if you looking for a random image in the header for each page , you can use newsflash module to add your images from the admin backend and publish it in the top module position for example and move the top position in your index.php file to the template header.

richardt · 07.04.2004, 08:42

Brad,

Thanks for that. I have been making components/modules/templates for a while now and have a number of clients running intranets and websites with Mambo. One client has asked for a specific template to be displayed on the frontpage ONLY, with the rest of the site using another template.

I'm trying to achieve this without changing too much in the core... My idea is to have one specific template published, but a switch (similar to tafkar's suggestion) will determine whether we are on the frontpage or not and then display another template for that page only.

I'll try what has been suggested but feel free to pass on any other ideas

Thanks!

richardt · 08.04.2004, 00:40

Righto, I've found what I needed to do. If anyone else wants to achieve this, do as follows:

Open up your index.php and ind the following line (around 130ish):

Code:

$cur_template = $mainframe->getTemplate();

And replace with this (I've included the same line but commented out):

Code:

//$cur_template = $mainframe->getTemplate();
if  ($option == "com_frontpage"){  
	$cur_template = "TEMPLATE_NAME"; 
} else { 
	$cur_template = $mainframe->getTemplate();
}

This code determines whether the user is viewing the frontpage or not, and the displays a different template for that page only...

Let me know if you need a hand getting this to work

mamboguy.com · 08.04.2004, 00:43

Nice work

See what the community can.... pffftt one person came up with....

lewisteo · 08.04.2004, 11:07

Nice but may I ask... what if I have a series of contents within a menu... can I set to display different template based on the content they clicked...

Or maybe based on the different component they click too....

Thanks in advance...

lazarus_bitmap · 12.04.2004, 21:40

You can do it with a more enhanced version of the same switch statement. This thread on the official forum has some good examples of the code:

http://forum.mamboserver.com/viewtopic.php?t=11091

You can see this type of approach working on a client site I developed here:

http://rosencom.com

You'll notice that different templates (although the main difference is in the header) is used on each page.

Cheers,

lazarus_bitmap · 12.04.2004, 21:46

This is my index.php / switch code, for those curious. It calls all the necessary templates for main page / sub pages. Notice that it's important to have defaults for pages that don't fit any of the arguments. Might not be an issue in the beginning, but if you have users creating new sections, it can create errors later if you don't use them.

Code:

<?php
defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Oops... Sorry, wrong page.' );

switch ($option) {
   case 'com_frontpage': //show home page template
     include_once ('index_home.php');
     break;
      
   case 'content':
        switch ($Itemid) {
        
        case '40': //think tank
          include_once ('index_thinktank.php');
         break;   
        
        case '42': //articles
           include_once ('index_articles.php');
           break;           
           
         case '31': //business leaders
          include_once ('index_bizleaders.php');
         break;
         
        case '32': //communication experts
          include_once ('index_commexpert.php');
         break;         
       
        case '30': //contact us
          include_once ('index_contactus.php');
         break;
         
         case '26': //resources
          include_once ('index_resources.php');
         break;
         
        case '29': //success stories
          include_once ('index_successstories.php');
         break;
         
        case '28': //who we are
          include_once ('index_whoweare.php');
         break;
        case '35': //privacy legal notices
           include_once ('index_home.php');
        break;    
        default:  // DEFAULT FOR ALL
          include_once ('index_articles.php');
          break;        
          }  // END: case 'itemid'
     
      break;  // END : case 'content'
      
   default:  // DEFAULT FOR ALL
      include_once ('index_home.php');
      break;    
}    
?>