Comments on: How to Hack a Pligg Template http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-to-hack-a-pligg-template Daily Inspiration For Bloggers Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:12:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robert Ellis http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-to-hack-a-pligg-template#comment-11606 Robert Ellis Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:09:25 +0000 http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-to-hack-a-pligg-template#comment-11606 Mariam, I believe Beta 9.6 is the latest version. Yes, you're right. There is some hard code in sidebar_stories.php. I don't know what you're trying to do, so you'll just have to play with it, but you can probably just copy and edit this code, name it whatever you want to call your template, and make some adjustments: <code>elseif ($the_template == "yget [change this to your template name]") { echo "<div class=tlb><span><a onclick=\"new Effect.toggle('ssstories','blind', {queue: 'end'}); \"> <img src=\"".my_base_url.my_pligg_base."/templates/".The_Template."/images/expand.png\" /></a></span><a href=\"".$ss->link."\">".$ss->header."</a></div><div id=ssstories style=padding-bottom:2px>"; $ss->template = $the_template . '/sidebar_stories.tpl'; $ss->show(); echo "</div>"; } </code> Oh, and waiting for v1.0 is sensible, if you're not in a hurry. Things look to be changing radically and porting and creating templates should be <b>much</b> easier. Mariam, I believe Beta 9.6 is the latest version.

Yes, you’re right. There is some hard code in sidebar_stories.php. I don’t know what you’re trying to do, so you’ll just have to play with it, but you can probably just copy and edit this code, name it whatever you want to call your template, and make some adjustments:

elseif ($the_template == "yget [change this to your template name]") {

echo "

link."\">".$ss->header."
";
$ss->template = $the_template . '/sidebar_stories.tpl';
$ss->show();
echo "

";

}

Oh, and waiting for v1.0 is sensible, if you’re not in a hurry. Things look to be changing radically and porting and creating templates should be much easier.

]]> By: Mariam Ayyash http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-to-hack-a-pligg-template#comment-11605 Mariam Ayyash Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:37:29 +0000 http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-to-hack-a-pligg-template#comment-11605 well thank you Bob :) im still working on the layout though seems to me like the version i got is old or something! its Pligg Beta 9.6 :s is there any newer version? What i am referring to is actually code in sidebar_stories.php that referred to "yget" template name, hard-coded, when i changed the template it messed up the side bar because of this... well maybe i should wait for the 1.0 version :) [I love wordpress!] well thank you Bob :) im still working on the layout though

seems to me like the version i got is old or something! its Pligg Beta 9.6 :s is there any newer version? What i am referring to is actually code in sidebar_stories.php that referred to “yget” template name, hard-coded, when i changed the template it messed up the side bar because of this… well maybe i should wait for the 1.0 version :) [I love wordpress!]

]]> By: Robert Ellis http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-to-hack-a-pligg-template#comment-11604 Robert Ellis Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:41:24 +0000 http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-to-hack-a-pligg-template#comment-11604 Hi, Mariam. Yes, the sidebar code in Pligg <em>is</em> a mess. I'm not exactly sure what you're asking, though. You can add your template name and path to <b>/templates/templates.tpl</b>, which should add it to the list in your Admin, but I don't think you should have to change any other files outside of the template directory (but I haven't played with Pligg for a while, so my memory is a little fuzzy). But don't be surprised by anything in Pligg. It's not like WordPress. It should be very easy to work with templates after v1.0, however. BTW, took a look at your site. I love it. Beautiful design! Love the multicolumn newspaper layout! Hi, Mariam. Yes, the sidebar code in Pligg is a mess. I’m not exactly sure what you’re asking, though. You can add your template name and path to /templates/templates.tpl, which should add it to the list in your Admin, but I don’t think you should have to change any other files outside of the template directory (but I haven’t played with Pligg for a while, so my memory is a little fuzzy). But don’t be surprised by anything in Pligg. It’s not like WordPress. It should be very easy to work with templates after v1.0, however.

BTW, took a look at your site. I love it. Beautiful design! Love the multicolumn newspaper layout!

]]> By: Mariam Ayyash http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-to-hack-a-pligg-template#comment-11603 Mariam Ayyash Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:21:02 +0000 http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-to-hack-a-pligg-template#comment-11603 Hi, I noticed there is a bit of chaos in the sidebar code, sometimes the wrapper calls another well done tpl like categories, some other time it calls a php file on the root, that has conditional blocks with HARDCODED template names, like yget, i donno, is this expected? so do i have to write a new block of code in the original php to account for my new template? thanx for the efforts Hi,
I noticed there is a bit of chaos in the sidebar code, sometimes the wrapper calls another well done tpl like categories, some other time it calls a php file on the root, that has conditional blocks with HARDCODED template names, like yget, i donno, is this expected? so do i have to write a new block of code in the original php to account for my new template?

thanx for the efforts

]]> By: Robert Ellis http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-to-hack-a-pligg-template#comment-11570 Robert Ellis Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:30:13 +0000 http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-to-hack-a-pligg-template#comment-11570 Devendra, I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. The <b>wrapper.tpl</b> files are called from <b>sidebar.tpl</b> and live in the <b>/sidebar_modules</b> sub-folder. Devendra, I’m not sure I understand what you’re asking. The wrapper.tpl files are called from sidebar.tpl and live in the /sidebar_modules sub-folder.

]]> By: Devendra http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-to-hack-a-pligg-template#comment-11567 Devendra Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:40:06 +0000 http://www.upstartblogger.com/how-to-hack-a-pligg-template#comment-11567 hello robert, where is wrapper .tpl declared in the sidebar.tpl? hello robert, where is wrapper .tpl declared in the sidebar.tpl?

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