Page Headers and Footers

[Rob]

I have the same header (site header and links) and footer (copyright and link buttons) on every page on my site and hate having to keep them in sync between each of the template pages. To make maintaining my site easier, I have modified pixelpost to include a header and a footer on every page. Warning, you will need some HTML knowledge to do this 8)

First, edit index.php and modify the fetch template code near the top like the following. It is the first two lines and the last line that are added.

// read the template file

$header = file_get_contents("templates/".$cfgrow['template']."/header.html");
$footer = file_get_contents("templates/".$cfgrow['template']."/footer.html");
switch ($_GET['x']) {
    case "ref":
    $tpl = file_get_contents("templates/".$cfgrow['template']."/referer_template.html");
    break;
    case "browse":
    $tpl = file_get_contents("templates/".$cfgrow['template']."/browse_template.html");
    break;
    case "":
    default:
    $tpl = file_get_contents("templates/".$cfgrow['template']."/image_template.html");
    break;
}
if($_GET['popup'] == "comment") {
    $tpl = file_get_contents("templates/".$cfgrow['template']."/comment_template.html");
}
$tpl = $header . $tpl . $footer;

Next you need to add a header.html and footer.html to your template directory. These files should contain HTML that is common to the start and end of every page on your site. You then need to edit every other HTML template for your site and remove the HTML at the start and end of these pages that you have added to your new templates.

Hope this helps people.

[Joe[y]+]

thank you. the way you have structured this seems to show that the header and footer files will be included in the comment page as well... am i right?

[tanjatiziana]

Is there a way to prevent/remove the header & footer from the comments pop-up?? Any help would be much appreciated.

[Nemesis]

Has this been resolved?
There is no point having header and footer in pop up window.

[Joe[y]+]

yes! there is a way - as i use this option. umm... if i remember rightly:

move the following in index.php:

PHP Code:

if($_GET['popup'] == "comment")
{
    $tpl = file_get_contents("templates/".$cfgrow['template']."/comment_template.html");
} 


below the following:

PHP Code:

// Added ability to use header and footers for templates.  They are not needed but used if included in the template
$tpl = $header . $tpl . $footer; 


this should be around line 150. basically you're just excludign the comment_template from the header/footer rule.

[Nemesis]

OH ok thanks
I was trying to remove comment_template from this thinking it was defined elsewere as well.

[fotogram]

That's a cool hack, but...

I use the image name on the <title>, which helps me distinguish which image has been viewed on my stats package (Mint).

How can I make sure the <IMAGE_NAME> is only added to the <title> if the image_template has been loaded. I tried adding some <? php ?> in the template itself but that did not work.

Right now all my non image tamplate pages load with a title of "fotogram :: <IMAGE_TITLE>"

TIA

[Joe[y]+]

Originally Posted by fotogram

That's a cool hack, but...

I use the image name on the <title>, which helps me distinguish which image has been viewed on my stats package (Mint).

How can I make sure the <IMAGE_NAME> is only added to the <title> if the image_template has been loaded. I tried adding some <? php ?> in the template itself but that did not work.

Right now all my non image tamplate pages load with a title of "fotogram :: <IMAGE_TITLE>"

TIA

this is a problem with one possible solution:

like i showed for the comment_template do the same for image_template to exclude it from the headers rule.

[fotogram]

Here is how I solved my problem:

switch ($_GET['x']) {
    case "ref":
    $tpl = file_get_contents("templates/".$cfgrow['template']."/referer_template.html");
    break;
    case "browse":
    $tpl = file_get_contents("templates/".$cfgrow['template']."/browse_template.html");
    $header = str_replace("<title><SITE_TITLE> :: <IMAGE_TITLE></title>","<title><SITE_TITLE> :: Archive</title>",$header);
    break;
    case "links":
    $tpl = file_get_contents("templates/".$cfgrow['template']."/links_template.html");
    $header = str_replace("<title><SITE_TITLE> :: <IMAGE_TITLE></title>","<title><SITE_TITLE> :: Links &amp; About</title>",$header);
    break;
    case "contact":
    $tpl = file_get_contents("templates/".$cfgrow['template']."/contact_template.html");
    $header = str_replace("<title><SITE_TITLE> :: <IMAGE_TITLE></title>","<title><SITE_TITLE> :: Contact</title>",$header);
    break;
    case "thankyou":
    $tpl = file_get_contents("templates/".$cfgrow['template']."/thankyou_template.html");
    $header = str_replace("<title><SITE_TITLE> :: <IMAGE_TITLE></title>","<title><SITE_TITLE> :: Thank You</title>",$header);
    break;
    case "":
    default:
    $tpl = file_get_contents("templates/".$cfgrow['template']."/image_template.html");
    break;
}

[Noxdineen]

Thank you, this is perfect.