So i'm learning Wagtail and trying to understand how to generate menus. So far i've found the bakerydemo repo helpful. One major point of confusion for me is understanding how to use the templatetags used for menus in the bakery demo. Below is the code for the get_site_root tag (django docs recommend that as of 1.11 that simple_tag will also work and so I changed it to that.)
#register.assignment_tag(takes_context=True)
def get_site_root(context):
# This returns a core.Page. The main menu needs to have
# the site.root_page
#defined else will return an object attribute error ('str' object
#has no attribute 'get_children')
return context['request'].site.root_page
No matter what I do I can't seem to get this to work. Either nothing is returned or I get various errors like the request key isn't in context or others. I looked at the Site middleware then traced that to the site model staticmethod "find_for_request" which in turn should be calling "get_site_for_hostname" in the sites.py . Anyways, I would love some guidance on what I am doing wrong or misunderstanding. Also, any help in understading the "wagtailthonic" way of generating menus from page hierarchies would be welcome.
Here is an image of the page and site tables.
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I've run into an challenge/posible incompatibility between gatsby-source-graphcms and gatsby-plugin-react-i18next, for which there appears to be virtually no information online and I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this before please.
I'm working on adding localisation to a site which uses gatsby-source-graphcms and the Gatsby File System Route API to build pages dynamically. Everything was going fine, until I tried to use the $language GraphQL query variable made available by gatsby-plugin-react-i18next with the locale filter field in GraphCMS, which yielded this error message:
Variable "$language" of type "String!" used in position expecting type "GraphCMS_Locale"
The one and only reference I've been able to find to a similar issue was on GraphCMS' public Slack, where someone referred to abandoning gatsby-source-graphcms I favour of gatsby-source-graphql due to this. However I'm hesitant to do this, as that would basically means re-writing the entire site for me! 😢
I've been trying to find some way to feed the page query a second variable, which duplicates the value $language variable from gatsby-plugin-react-i18next but is declared as the correct data type for GraphCMS, or perhaps to somehow cast the string to GraphCMS_locale but have had no luck so far.
Has anyone found a way to make gatsby-source-graphcms play nicely with gatsby-plugin-react-i18next please?
The WIP code for this can be seen here: https://github.com/binghamchris/paddelbuch/blob/feature-i18n/src/pages/index.js
Apologies if the code is a bit bad somewhere. I'm not a web dev (this is a community project I'm volunteering on, where there's no professional web devs) and am really just hacking away on copy-and-paste code 😉
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer
I found a super hacky workaround, inspired by #notrab's kind help, in case it helps anyone else:
I added the following to gatsby-node.js:
exports.createSchemaCustomization = ({
actions: { createTypes, printTypeDefinitions }
}) => {
createTypes(`
type Locale implements Node {
language: GraphCMS_Locale
}
`);
};
This changes the GraphQL data type on the language field in the i18next translation data to GraphCMS_Locale, which then means both data types needed by both gatsby-plugin-react-i18next and gatsby-source-graphcms match... and so far it seems to be working in dev mode!
I would like to style a couple of elements using a filter to decipher if it should be yellow or red.
I understand filters should not carry logic operations in them as such so am guessing a service is the first port of call before i create any filter for it.
I am leveraging data from a backend (still a bit unsure of the Backend model here, but know I can leverage certain objects to obtain the data needed for working on) I mostly need to know if i`m on the right path by using a service to control the logical outcome and then a filter to provide 'filtration' of that outcome.
BTW: sorry, im waiting for my project to checkout from SVN at mo so cannot provide a skeleton attempt.
Will do in a bit though .....
Any advice before hand will be much appreciated
:) Gruffy - thanks for reading
You can directly set the class attribute if you want, so your filter can simply return the CSS class to apply:
<p class="{{'foo'|myFilter}}">Foo</p>
Here's a fiddle showing what I mean.
First time poster here, I'm a designer not skilled at all with php and I have a small issue I don't seem to be able to solve. I'm making a site in drupal 7 using a sub theme on zen.
Btw this is a great CMS, even though people say it's really more a developers CMS. I have no trouble to do what I need using views, rules, display suite etc. So a big thank you for all the developers out there making this such a good CMS. But for this apparently simple problem... no module will help me (I think) and I'm kinda stuck.
So here it is: I'd like to add a subtitle next to the title in all my pages.
So what I did was to add a custom field into the content type basic page (machine name: field_sub_title) which is a simple text field.
I uncommented the following line in my template.php
function mytheme_preprocess_page(&$variables, $hook) {
$variables['sub_title'] = t('field_sub_title');
}
Now my question is how do I load the content of my custom field into that variable?
I know i need to change the second part, but I don't have a clue as into what I need to change this.
Displaying the variable into the the page.tpl.php is something I know about so I only need help with the first part.
{EDIT}
Ok I found how to do this :)
I was looking for a solution in the wrong place. I don't need to change any thing in the template.php file.
Just needed to add this bit of code into my page.tpl.php:
<?php
print $node->field_sub_title['und'][0]['value'];
?>
So I'm posting this here for other Drupal newbies struggling with this....
Your solution may work for now, but there may be a more Drupal-y way to handle a problem like this. If you haven't noticed any problems yet, you may find one or more of the following issues down the road:
Someone who doesn't know php or Drupal theming may need to change the way this works.
If you're like me, you may forget where exactly in code this was implemented.
You may see superfluous markup and/or errors on nodes (content) that do not have this sub-title field (ie. event content not having a sub-title field while basic pages and news articles do).
When you add a field to a content type, it will automatically appear anytime content in that content type is displayed. You should be able to add the sub-title field for your page, event or whatever else you need and have it automatically appear in the markup.
You can 'manage display' of a content type to drag and drop the order for fields to appear. You could take it a step further by using a module like Display Suite to add formatting or layout per-content type.
If you feel like this isn't good enough and the markup for the subtitle must be at the same level as the page title (which is rare), at least add an if statement to make your code check to see if the variable is present before trying to print it. I'd also add a new variable and comments for code readability.
<?php
$subtitle = $node->field_sub_title['und'][0]['value'];
if($subtitle){
print $subtitle;
}
?>
Consider using field_get_items or field_view_value, or at least use the LANGUAGE_NONE constant instead of 'und'
See https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules%21field%21field.module/function/field_get_items/7 and https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules!field!field.module/function/field_view_value/7
This has the added benefit of reducing the number of potential security holes you create.
(I know there's a couple of other reverse-routing-slugs questions on this site, but I'm not having much luck relating the answers to my particular issue, so I'll ask my more specific question...)
I am building a site whose URLs now need to be slug-based, i.e. what was initially news/item/1 now has to have the URL news/firstnewsitem. And so on for a number of other controllers. I can easily get these addresses to work, and maybe even not stomp on my existing utility actions, with something like:
Router::connect('/:controller/:slug',
array('action'=>'item'),
array('pass'=>array('slug'), 'slug'=>'[^(index|add|edit|view|delete)]')
);
However, the reverse routing of these new links seems to be a non-starter: Cake is still generating such links as news/item/3. It seems optimistic to hope that a slug-based URL would automagically happen, but is there any array that I can pass in my Html->link parameters that will create the :controller/:slug format I'm looking for? Or do I have to cut my losses and back away from reverse routing at this point?
There's a pretty decent plugin for handling slug-based routing here:
https://github.com/jeremyharris/slugger
If you used this, you would be able to create links something like this
$html->link("some item", array(
'controller'=>'items',
'action'=>'view',
'Item'=>$item['id']
));
and that would output a link to /items/view/slug-for-your-item
I just finished the "15 min Blog Post tutorial" included in the documentation for cakephp. I was asked for another tutorial to change the layout for first tutorial.
However, I am fairly new to MVC programming/Cakephp and I have no real clue how to do so. Well, I know I need "default.ctp" placed in app/views/layouts/ and I presume I need to include
to include my data? . . .
I am really at a loss of what to do. I set up my default.ctp as I mentioned above, but when I go to localhost:9999/posts the layout is still the same. I guess I need to include a stylesheet (and if so, where?)
I guess if someone can point me in the right direction to a beginner's guide to layout styling or how to use it I would greatly appreciate any help.
I would advice you to read the following from the cookbook: Layouts and CSS. Then copy the layout from /cake/libs/view/layouts/ to /app/views/layouts/ and modify it to your needs. After that create you stylesheet (or modify existing one) in /app/webroot/css/ and include it in your layout.
Create in app/View/Layout a file named "my_posts_layout.ctp"
In your PostController set $this->layout = 'my_posts_layout';
This way you should view the content defined on my_posts_layout.ctp.
Lack of stylesheets has no impact here.
How MVC works in CakePHP:
The router dispatches an incoming request to an appropriate Contoller.
The appropriate Controller function executes (no output, just fetching data, setting up variables).
The appropriate view is rendered. In fact, the output of the view is just contained in $content_for_layout.
What you really get back in the browser is in the layout. Therefore you can put your view's output into the layout by echo $content_for_layout in default.ctp. (Of course you can also have different layouts.) In addition, the layout can be enhanced with elements.
I really recomend the CakePHP CookBook, easily found from the CakePHP homepage. Modifying default.ctp should edit your applications layout.
A more specific question (eg. code samples of your default.ctp, expected results etc) might help people provide a better answer than mine.