Applying features to modules and views

Saturday 26 July 2003 5:27:40 am

Currently things lik section id, pagelayout template etc. are controlled by the view code. This is OK for views like conten/view which returns values taken from the content objects.
However for more 'static' views like search, login etc. the only way to select section ID is to add to the code itself, which in turn makes your code out of sync with eZ publish releases.

A way to solve this is have a .ini file in which you specify a module or a view and which features/characteristics you want to add. Possible things to add/change are:
- Section ID
- Pagelayout template.
- Path
- Design
- Meta data
- Navigation part

Maybe it's a good idea to able to set values before the module/view is run or after (or both), ie. section ID could be set before it is run and pagelayout after.

It could also be a good idea to be able to set values based on view parameters and plain url matches.

Any thoughts on this?

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Amos

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Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:23:34 am

This would be very welcome. Just ran into the problem of needing another pagelayout for content/edit.

For now, I added a line to the end of the code of kernel/content/attribute_edit.php

$Result['pagelayout'] = 'pagelayout_edit.tpl';

Where pagelayout_edit.tpl maximises the space available for the edit form elements.

But for the pagelayout.tpl, why not add this to the override.ini function: we only need more match keys for module and function?

Or do I miss an existing match key?

-paul

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Wednesday 03 September 2003 4:58:41 am

Hello Jan

I tried the override.ini, but don't know what Match[??] to use for /content/edit.

I tried Match[view]=edit, but this did not produce the desired result (in 3.1): the default pagelayout.tpl was used

I do support your suggestion, as it introduces more flexibility.

Regards

-paul

eZ Publish, eZ Find, Solr expert consulting and training
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