SOLVED Automatically Assigning Title Spans w/ php
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- John Kramer
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The following link outlines how to automatically format the first word of a title differently from the rest of the title using a span. However, it is apparently for a non-gantry environment as the referenced file looks nothing like the file shown in the example. So the question is, what file do I need to modify to duplicate the same effect? Would the modifications be essentially the same?
www.gavick.com/forums/115/title-spans-15181.html
Or is there a better way to do this?
Thanks!
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- MrT
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That is an HTML override and yes you can do essentially the same thing with the override in your template - depending on the template you would need to create a new one (or change one if it already exists) in /templates/whatevertemplatename/html/joomla/..... etc (depends on your joomla version too). If you have to create one then you'll need to copy the gantry component override.
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- John Kramer
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Hello Mark,
Well, I did leave out a few details didn't I...
I'm working with Jommla 3.3.6 and the RT Anacron template. I'm also new to joomla and gantry.
So there's 48 php files under the rt_anacron directory. Since gantry overlays on top of the default.php file, per best practices, which is the best file to modify to accomplish what I'm trying to do?
Thanks!
John
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The file that you need to modify is /templates/rt_anacron/html/modules.php
If you modify this file then you be aware that any template updates will overwrite the file again, so you should keep a backup of your changes.
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- John Kramer
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That does indeed work! Regarding your note about template upgrades overwriting this file, I'm wondering if there is still a better option. The call echo $module->title clearly calls a module class that knows how to render the title. Would this be a better option? Which also raises another question, do you have a good reference for the class heirarchy that's being used?
Thanks for all your help!
John
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The file you are changing is the correct way - any other method would also necessitate changing template files - so the warning about updates would always need to be heeded. No, there is no documentation on the internal class hierarchy to gantry. For joomla class hierarchy see joomla documentation on their site.
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That worked so well we'd like to do the same with article titles on a category blog page. So now my questions are: what file to modify and how do I get the needed variable reference? In this case, I suppose the variable is an array/list type that I'd need to iterate over.
Thanks again!
John
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This is really customisation work which is beyond the scope of this support forum. But I can give you some pointers. Anacron does not have any overrides for the joomla blog layout. But gantry does, so you have to copy the gantry override to the anacron template and edit it there.
Assuming you are using J3.3 one example...
copy
/plugins/system/gantry/overrides/3.3/2.5/com_content/category/blog_item.php
to
/templates/rt_anacron/html/joomla/3.3/2.5/com_content/category/blog_item.php
Then edit it. Other overrides for com_content are done in the same manner - if you want look at some of our other templates where we have done this then take a look at Cerulean.
New questions = new topics now please to be fair to other members.
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- John Kramer
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The directory given above is incorrect. The correct directory to copy the file to is:
/templates/rt_anacron/html/joomla/3.3/com_content/category/blog_item.php
Thanks,
John
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