How to embed a module output on a frontpage?

Monday 23 November 2009 3:52:58 am

Hi Maria,

in the site.ini you can find the lines:

[SiteSettings]
IndexPage=/content/view/full/2/

I think it should be possible to overrides this with your own module:

[SiteSettings]
IndexPage=/yourmodule/yourview/

IndexPage doc

Please tell me the result.

Good luck

Edit: Hum, you don't want to replace your frontpage, right? Then my way is wrong. What's the task of your module? I need some more information.

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Monday 23 November 2009 5:30:49 am

What you have done is not very far from the minimum amount of work required.

The way I would have organized it:

- some php class or function that calculates the stuff you need

- a template to show it

- a new module/view that binds those 2 things together

for the homepage, you could have:

- create a tpl operator (or even better a fetch function) encapsulating the new business logic; no need for a class override/new class, just override the template for full view of node 2; in the overridden tpl call your new operator and include your new template

- instead of adding your 'block' directly to the homepage template, added a new attribute, eg. of type "string" to the homepage. Then use a datatype override template to inject the calls to the new tpl operator + inclusion of new tpl. This way you could have eg. put the twitter feed ID as value of the new attribute

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Monday 23 November 2009 6:12:23 am

Thanks for the replies guys. The reason I created a new content class is so the CMS user who is not techie, can add the module in various places via the admin backend. If there's a better way to do it than a content class, let me know, I'm still a EZ newbie :)

Thanks again :)