[geeklog-devel] Plugins and Templates and a bit about the Forum plugin

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Thanks!
I'm glad to hear you.

The order of operation for the template function is so good.

"default" is template default directory.
This rule is very simple.


2015-02-15 1:09 GMT+09:00 Tom <websitemaster at cogeco.net>:
> Okay,
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> I have started on updated the forum plugin templates to be responsive.
> Thanks Ivy for the work you have done so far (which is a lot). I am using
> your templates as my starting point.
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> I have created 2 new functions in the template library that the forum and
> core plugins will use to determine which templates to use when displaying
> information.  I actually based the code on some I found in the plugins that
> was not being used (must have been a partially implemented feature).
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> To keep things consistent with the core plugins and to make theme
> development easier, other plugins should go ahead and use these functions
> where possible.
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> The 2 functions are:
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> CTL_plugin_templatePath($plugin, $path = '')
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> CTL_plugin_cssURL($plugin, $filename = "style.css")
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> The template function returns  the physical path directory location of the
> plugin templates. This should be run at the beginning of your plugins
> functions.inc and stored in your plugins config variables like so:
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> $CONF_FORUM['path_layout'] = CTL_plugin_templatePath('forum');
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> Similarly the css function returns the URL of the location of the css file
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> $CONF_FORUM['css_url'] = CTL_plugin_cssURL('forum', 'forum.css');
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> The order of operation for the template function is
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> 1)      It checks for a sub directory of the plugin’s name in the current
> theme being displayed root directory. If found it is used.
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> 2)      It checks for a sub directory of the theme’s name in the current
> “plugins/plugin name here/templates/” directory. If found it is used.
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> 3)      If 1 or 2 is not found then the default template for the plugin is
> used. It is always located in “plugins/plugin name here/templates/default/”
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> This will hopefully make things easier for people when updating plugins to
> maintain their template changes. It also makes it easier for plugin
> developers to include plugin templates that support specific themes.
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> When I have fully implemented everything I will update the repository.
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> Thanks
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> Tom
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