Separate pagelayouts for 'view' and 'edit' - NOT POSSIBLE?

Monday 22 December 2003 9:33:48 am

First of all, you should really consider upgrading eZ publish to the latest stable version. 3.1-1 is kinda old. :-)

Regarding the pagelayout question:
You could do something like this (pseudo-code only!) inside your main/original pagelayout.tpl file:

if requested URL contains "edit"
{
include my_edit_pagelayout.tpl
}
else
{
include my_view_pagelayout.tpl
}

The if-then-else mechanism could be easily solved with a "section" block. The include can be solved using the "include" function. The URL can be extracted from the "$module_result.uri" - use one of the string operators to check if "edit" or "view" exists in the URL.

Another solution would be to check if a user is logged in or not and generate/include different pagelayouts based on that. Example:

{* Fetch the current user. *}
{let user=fetch('user', 'current_user', hash() )}

{* If user is logged in: *}
{section show=$user.is_logged_in}

Logged in: {$user.login}<br />

{* Include my custom layout template for edit... *}

{* Else: there is no user logged in... *}
{section-else}

{* Include my custom layout template for view... *}

{/section}
{/let}

I hope this helps.. :)

Balazs

Monday 22 December 2003 10:47:00 am

Great hack Paul! :-) However, regular users of eZ publish shouldn't be messing around with kernel code (because of security issues, future upgrades, etc.). Thats why I suggested a less violent/hacker-style approach...

Balazs

Tuesday 23 December 2003 1:37:04 am

Hi Bruce,

I and my collegues only do minimal changes to kernel code, almost everything is in extensions (sometimes copies of kernel code/operators/datatypes with another name if the changes are substantial)

Currently I keep the changed files in a svn server. That's easy for tracking, diffing, ...

cya

-paul

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