One page, two designs. How to ?

Thursday 15 July 2010 2:17:34 am

Hello !

I am integrating a site which has two main parts. There are red pages and green pages that have only a few differences (background color and menus). There is a page that belongs to the two parts of the site, so it must have a red design and a green design, depending on the link that call it.

My problem is : in the pagelayout template, how should I proceed to automatically set the appropriate design (red or green) to the page ?

I've thought of fetching the node parent so I can know which part of the site is currently viewed, and then setting menus and divs like this (as in ezwebin templates) :

{if eq($site_design, 'red')}

    {include uri='design:page_redmenu.tpl'}
    <div id='red'>

{else}

    {include uri='design:page_greenmenu.tpl'}
    <div id='green'>

{/if}

... </div>

Is that a proper solution ? Do you have any better way to know the current part of the site, and to display the page in consequence ?
Thank you !

Friday 16 July 2010 1:37:44 am

Hi Brandon, thank you for your answer !

Do you mean calling my template this way ?

{def $color=''}

{if ...}
    {$color='red'} 
{else}
    {$color='green'}
{/if}

{include uri='design:page_topmenu.tpl' param_css=$color}

Looks like a great idea, I'll test it ! But I just have to know which condition I test in the if...

Regarding the different folders to separate the "green" content from the "red" content, the original tree is made that way (the pages that can be either green or red have two locations). However, some pages are not direct children of these folders, so as you say, it is complicated to fetch the parent...

If anyone has an idea about this, it would be welcome !

Saturday 17 July 2010 7:55:15 am

My content tree is more like the following one :

Main frontpage

-Red main page - section 'red'

-- red subpage (object ID = 55)

-- red subpage

-Green main page - section 'green'

-- green subpage (object ID = 55)

-- green subpage

--- green subsubpage

--- green subsubpage

Since I have subsubpages, it is a bit complicated to get the main page. Yet I realize I don't have to specifically get the main page : if I get the section of the parent object, I can be able to know which design I should use (green or red). It is okay if I never add subsubpages under the object 55.

Maybe there's a fetch parameter to get the level 2 parent node (the Green or the Red main page), I'll check it out.

The differences between red and green pages are only the colors, and some parts of the navigation menu. I don't see any other way than getting the parent node to know which part of the site needs to be displayed.