[SOLVED[ Adding a custom position to templates
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- ZioRiP
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Hi, I am using Stratos (but I think it is irrelevant) on Joomla 3.
It is the first time I try to do something like this in my life as I have just finished to read something about html and css.
I think I need to add a custom position for the logo of the website that I am building for myself. I need this logo to be where the header-a position is, but I need it to be overlapping the usual header boundaries in order to prevent the logo to change the height of the header as I want it to be a high as it is in the rocket launcher version (so with the navigation menu).
Said so, I believe I need to do some customizations that go over the usual change and resize image
I have been reading gantry documentation and joomla 3 documentation related to templating and I have customized my index.php file in the template folder adding the following code between the top position and the header position code:<?php /** Begin Logo **/ endif; ?> <div id="customLogo"> <?php echo $gantry->displayModules('logo','standard','standard'); ?> </div> <?php /** End Logo **/ endif ?>
I will obviously create some css with the "customLogo" id.
Then I have added the following code in the templateDetails.xml file, right between the top and the header codes:<position>logo</position>
I have then added some code in the other xml file, the templateOptions (and here I have some doubts), exactly the one related to the "logo":
<fields name="top" type="position" label="TOP_POS" description="LAYOUT_POS_DESC"> <field name="layout" type="positions" default="3,3,3,3" label=""> <schemas>1,2,3,4,5,6</schemas> <words>2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10</words> </field> <field name="showall" type="toggle" default="0" label="FORCE_POS"/> <field name="showmax" type="showmax" default="6" label="POS_COUNT"/> </fields> <fields name="logo" type="position" label="logo" description="LAYOUT_POS_DESC"> <field name="layout" type="positions" default="3,3,3,3" label=""> <schemas>1,2,3,4,5,6</schemas> <words>2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10</words> </field> <field name="showall" type="toggle" default="0" label="FORCE_POS"/> <field name="showmax" type="showmax" default="6" label="POS_COUNT"/> </fields> <fields name="header" type="position" label="HEADER_POS" description="LAYOUT_POS_DESC"> <field name="layout" type="positions" default="3,3,3,3" label=""> <schemas>1,2,3,4,5,6</schemas> <words>2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10</words> </field> <field name="showall" type="toggle" default="0" label="FORCE_POS"/> <field name="showmax" type="showmax" default="6" label="POS_COUNT"/> </fields>
Now, I am not sure if the last code is correct for my needs and above all I don't seem to have understood where to add the css code. I wanted to create my own css file with just that id style, but I can't find any calls to the stylesheets in the index.php file and I have noticed that the css folder doesn't have many files as I expected.
Can anyone help me with this problem? I would just like to know if I have done everything correct so far and where I can add my own css file and how I can call it so that the system recognizes it. I would like to just add a <link type="text/css" href="custom/css/customlogo.css' rel="stylesheet" /> within the head portion of the index file, but I am not sure cause I don't see anything about css in there.
Thanks in advance for the support
- Last Edit: 10 years 10 months ago by ZioRiP.
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- ZioRiP
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I am wondering if there is anything wrong with this code in the index.php file of the template, the website shows a completely white page. If I remove it, the website works again:
<?php /** Begin Custom Logo **/ endif; ?> <div id="customLogo"> <?php echo $gantry->displayModules('custom-logo','standard','standard'); ?> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <?php /** End Custom Logo **/ endif ?>
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- Henning
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<?php /** Begin Custom Logo **/ endif; ?> can't work ...
<?php /** Begin Custom Logo **/ if ($gantry->countModules('custom-logo')) : ?>
<div id="customLogo">
<?php echo $gantry->displayModules('custom-logo','standard','standard'); ?>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
<?php /** End Custom Logo **/ endif; ?>
just look at a different positions and use copy paste to get the code right.
Also I suggest to clear the gantry cache ...
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- ZioRiP
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yes, it works fine!
And now my very first css
I have just one more concern.
The custom-logo position appears in the layout (awesome, I have never expected it to be integrating that way), it obviously appears where I have positioned it (between the top and the header position).
My only doubt is that I need the custom logo to be exactly were the header-a is, is this configuration coing to be a problem?
Thanks again for everything
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- ZioRiP
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yes, here it is:
alessandro-coraglia.com/00-rosie-development/
That lady shoud go exactly where the normal logo is, without affecting the height of the red bar
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