Concrete5 Templates
Concrete5 Custom Templates DEUTSCH
The Content Management System Concrete5 supports custom templates for existing blocks. Using this feature enables you to modify the layout of the core elements, without actually touching the core, which offers you an easy to way to modify your layout if css isn’t enough.
In this tutorial we’re going to modify the “page list” block. The page list block is quite handy to create a list of sites. Just add a new sub page and the page list block will display it. Could be used for a news list. I already created a list for this tutorial. It looks like this:
The sites “Untereite A” and “Unterseite B” should be part of a list. To achieve this, we’ll add a page list block to the parent page:
We just created a simple list:
The layout isn’t perfect, but we can modify the CSS! But what if we want to add a thumbnail? CSS isn’t enough anymore and we need to create a custom template!
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16 Comments
on April 24th, 2009 at 19:25:19
The code in this tutorial doesn’t work with 5.3 anymore because of some API changes. I’ll update it as soon as possible. Until then, this might help:
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/usage/thumbnails_in_5_3
on May 26th, 2009 at 19:50:07
Hey, this is an awesome addition to the page list block, just what I was looking for. One question though, is there any way to force a square thumbnail to be generated instead of a proportionate one?
on May 26th, 2009 at 20:42:53
Hey Peter,
as far as I know, there’s not easy “out of the box” solution to this. As a matter of fact we just talked about a similar issue at work today.
We ended up creating our thumbnails using Photoshop due to a simple reason – we never knew which part of the picture the important one is, without looking at it. Otherwise I would have built it already..
But it’s not a difficult thing to add another “thumbnail” method that also crops the picture by removing an equal part from the left and right or from the top and bottom…
I’ll try to keep my ears open about this function, I’ll try to post it once I found one or once someone wrote one..
on July 14th, 2009 at 12:12:54
[...] know anything about “Custom Templates”, you should probably read this article first: http://www.codeblog.ch/2009/03/concrete5-templates/. In short: Concrete5 allows you to style any block using templates in case you need to change the [...]
on September 9th, 2009 at 09:53:49
I can’t get this to work on 5.3 despite following your instructions to the letter. Is there an update I’ve spent a lot of time on this?
on September 9th, 2009 at 10:02:41
On page 2 there’s a note which shows you the code which I’ve tested with 5.3. If this doens’t work for you – please explain what doesn’t work for you.
on October 19th, 2009 at 12:18:33
Hello Remo
I am trying to add an extra thumbnail to the listings page. I have searched just about everywhere possible with no result. Unfortunately I am limited by my PHP knowledge. Could you help a brother out and point me in the right direction:)
Many regard
on October 19th, 2009 at 12:59:33
The tutorial has all the information you need. Just add a new page attribute and duplicate the code which fetches and prints the Attribute.
The new code could look like this:
That’s it!
on October 19th, 2009 at 15:22:13
Remo that worked like a charm, you make it seem so easy. Thanks for your help:)
on November 12th, 2009 at 14:54:22
I’m having a minor problem with this Fix.
I’ve followed the tutorial.
From the point;
“After we created the template, we have to navigate back to the page where we added our page list block:”
I selected “set custom template” which is now called “custom template” in Concrete 5.3.3 and all i get is only one thumbnail which was chosen after selecting a custom field. I’m using the thumbnail.php code found above on;
Concrete5.3 (Update: 24th April 2009)
Can someone please help me. I’m under pressure here.
Regards
on November 12th, 2009 at 19:40:41
It’s a bit hard to help you with so little information.
You must select a picture/thumbnail for each page using “properties”. Otherwise it won’t be able to show you anything else but a text.
Just open all the sub pages for which you don’t see a thumbnail and edit them, hit properties, custom fields and add select a thumbnail/file.
on December 14th, 2009 at 10:02:04
[...] If you haven’t worked with custom template you should probably read this tutorial first: http://www.codeblog.ch/2009/03/concrete5-templates/. [...]
on January 14th, 2010 at 16:30:31
Do you know what code you need to include other custom attributes that are text/selectors etc as we need to be able to filter by attribute. We are developing an accommodation site that needs to filter by accommodation location for example and we need the page-list to determine this when showing the list.
Cheers
on January 15th, 2010 at 09:12:28
I’d have to look that up as well. But try this, it should give you a couple of information:
print_r($cobj->getAttribute(‘your_attribute’));
on March 10th, 2010 at 19:17:37
How can you add a thumbnail using the “getAttribute” to display a thumbnail in the BLOG Add On.
The following piece of code worked before for Blog 1.5.1
setAttributethe(‘thumbnail’)): ?>
<a href="”><img src="getThumbnail($blog_post->getAttribute(‘thumbnail’), 125, 94)->src ?>” class=”left bordered” alt=”getCollectionName() ?>”/>
With the upgrade (Version 1.2.3) this approach doesn’t work.
Please, do you have any ideas as to what I can change?
on March 10th, 2010 at 21:56:58
There were some changes in the Concrete5 API, but I don’t see why this should be blog related. But since the Blog addon isn’t free, I can’t help you with it, you should ask the authors of the package for help.
But you did see that I’ve posted different examples on how to output a thumbnail, depending on your c5 version?