Plugins for Homepage Only, Pt. 2

[tpelia]

I am trying without success to add code for a plugin (with a "html nugget") that will allow that plugin to appear ONLY on the "home," or "index," page.

I don't want the plugin to appear on any of the "category" pages, nor on any of the "archives" pages, just ONE page.

So far, I have been able (through your gracious help!) to have the plugin NOT appear on any of the "category" pages with a "sidebar hider" plugin. But I have not been able to do this same for "archives" pages.

I'm sure there is a way to do this, but I am not adept enough to figure it out!

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Any help would be appreciated!!!

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I suppose the easiest way is to edit your template's sidebar.tpl template file. Inside the loop where each plugin is emitted you could add a siwtch like:

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{foreach from=$plugindata item=item}
    {if $item.class == 'serendipity_plugin_myplugin' AND $view == 'archives'}
     <!-- plugin hidden! -->
    {else}
    <div class="serendipitySideBarItem container_{$item.class}">
        {if $item.title != ""}<h3 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}"
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">{$item.content}</div>
    </div>
    {/if}
{/foreach}

HTH,
Garvin

[Maccsta]

Hi!

I suppose the easiest way is to edit your template's sidebar.tpl template file. Inside the loop where each plugin is emitted you could add a siwtch like:

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{foreach from=$plugindata item=item}
    {if $item.class == 'serendipity_plugin_myplugin' AND $view == 'archives'}
     <!-- plugin hidden! -->
    {else}
    <div class="serendipitySideBarItem container_{$item.class}">
        {if $item.title != ""}<h3 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}"
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">{$item.content}</div>
    </div>
    {/if}
{/foreach}

HTH,
Garvin

This code doesn't work for me. I added it to the sidebar plugin and get an error.

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Fatal error: Smarty error: [in file:/www.domain.com/blog/templates/default/sidebar.tpl line 11]: syntax error: mismatched tag {/foreach}. expected {/if} (opened line 5). (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 2338) in /www.domain.com/blog/bundled-libs/Smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php on line 1093

I just want to disable the serendipity_plugin_externalphp for all pages apart from the index page.

What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

My code wasn't properly meant to be copy and pasted; I was missing some characters in this line:

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{if $item.title != ""}<h3 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}"

you would need to edit your original sidebar.tpl, and insert only the first {if} and {else} part of the pasted code, which is the relevant. Or append the line above with the true contents of your sidebar.tpl...

HTH,
Garvin

[Maccsta]

Sorry Gavin I'm completely useless at this! So I edited the sidebar.tpl with this and all the sidebar plugins disappeared. How do I tweak it to just show the externalphp plugin on just the home page?

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{foreach from=$plugindata item=item}
    {if $item.class == 'serendipity_plugin_externalphp' AND $view == 'archives'}
     <!-- plugin hidden! -->
        <div class="serendipitySideBarItem container_{$item.class}">
        {$item.title != ""}<h3 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}"
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">{$item.content}</div>
    </div>
    {/if}
{/foreach}

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Try this:

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{foreach from=$plugindata item=item}
    {if $item.class == 'serendipity_plugin_externalphp' AND $view == 'archives'}
     <!-- plugin hidden! -->
    {else}
        <div class="serendipitySideBarItem container_{$item.class}">
        {$item.title != ""}<h3 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}"
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">{$item.content}</div>
    </div>
    {/if}
{/foreach}

Only this "else" was missing!

HTH,
Garvin

[Maccsta]

That doesn't work for me either, the sidebar now looks all funny and the externalphp plugin still shows on all pages, see here: http://www.jamesmcara.com/blog/

This is the exact code in my sidebar.tpl :

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{if $is_raw_mode}
<div id="serendipity{$pluginside}SideBar">
{/if}
{foreach from=$plugindata item=item}
    {if $item.class == 'serendipity_plugin_externalphp' AND $view == 'archives'}
     <!-- plugin hidden! -->
    {else}
        <div class="serendipitySideBarItem container_{$item.class}">
        {$item.title != ""}<h3 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}"
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">{$item.content}</div>
    </div>
    {/if}
{/foreach}


{if $is_raw_mode}
</div>
{/if}

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I'm sorry. I didn't notice the code you pasted still had the invalid code of my original template. I thought you looked it up in your template.

Now I did that work.

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{if $is_raw_mode}
<div id="serendipity{$pluginside}SideBar">
{/if}

{foreach from=$plugindata item=item}
    {if $item.class == 'serendipity_plugin_externalphp' AND $view == 'archives'}
     <!-- plugin hidden! -->
    {else}
    <div class="serendipitySideBarItem container_{$item.class}">
        {if $item.title != ""}<h3 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}">{$item.title}</h3>{/if}
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">{$item.content}</div>
    </div>
    {/if}
{/foreach}

{if $is_raw_mode}
</div>
{/if}

Try to understand that and look up the original contents of your template to see what this actually does.

Regards,
Garvin

[Maccsta]

Thanks Gavin, it seems to work now. The externalphp plugin now only shows on the index page. I added some extra parameters for the different views.

Was this the best way to do it? Have I missed anything out?

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{foreach from=$plugindata item=item}
    {if $item.class == 'serendipity_plugin_externalphp' AND $view == 'archives'}	  
	 {elseif $item.class == 'serendipity_plugin_externalphp' AND $view == 'archive'}
	 {elseif $item.class == 'serendipity_plugin_externalphp' AND $view == 'entry'}
	 {elseif $item.class == 'serendipity_plugin_externalphp' AND $view == 'categories'}
     {elseif $item.class == 'serendipity_plugin_externalphp' AND $view == 'staticpage'}
     <!-- plugin hidden! -->
    {else}
    <div class="serendipitySideBarItem container_{$item.class}">
        {if $item.title != ""}<h3 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}">{$item.title}</h3>{/if}
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">{$item.content}</div>
    </div>
    {/if}
{/foreach}

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

That looks okay - I wouldn't immediately know of anything missing...

Regards,
Garvin

[Maccsta]

Wouldn't this be a better use of the code using IF $view DOES NOT EQUAL ‘index’?

What is the view parameter for the index page?

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{foreach from=$plugindata item=item}
    {if $item.class == 'serendipity_plugin_externalphp' AND $view != 'index'}    
     <!-- plugin hidden! -->
    {else}
    <div class="serendipitySideBarItem container_{$item.class}">
        {if $item.title != ""}<h3 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}">{$item.title}</h3>{/if}
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">{$item.content}</div>
    </div>
    {/if}
{/foreach}

[Maccsta]

Ok I have nailed it this time! I was looking for 'start'

Can you just confirm there won't be any problems using that code Gavin?

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{foreach from=$plugindata item=item}
    {if $item.class == 'serendipity_plugin_externalphp' AND $view != 'start'}    
     <!-- plugin hidden! -->
    {else}
    <div class="serendipitySideBarItem container_{$item.class}">
        {if $item.title != ""}<h3 class="serendipitySideBarTitle {$item.class}">{$item.title}</h3>{/if}
        <div class="serendipitySideBarContent">{$item.content}</div>
    </div>
    {/if}
{/foreach}

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Sure, that would also work just fine - I think the result is the same


Regards,
Garvin

[Maccsta]

Yes but this coding seems like a more eloquent solution