Features other than pictures using G2?

I curious if there are plans to add some basic webpage features to G2 such as a links page?

I use G2 for my personal website and I want to add a few extra features like a links page. I used PHP-Nuke with gallery 1 and it worked fine but using PHP-Nuke seemed like overkill for the few basic items I want.

Ideas?

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Sure, I would be interested. What do I need to do?

Kirill appears to be AWOL.

I've made a simple demo module that puts a "My Stuff" box in the sidebar and a "My Page" link in it, which takes you to a very simple view that just renders the template of your choice. I'm attaching it here.

Note that in the template I'm using {g->text} blocks which will localize your strings. If you don't care about localization, just put your text in verbatim and don't worry about that. I'm also doing $module->translate in HtmlPageView for the same reason.

This should be enough to get you started. Have fun!

Alright, Bharat's module should have started you off on the right foot, but in case you need a step by step walkthrough of the necessary steps take a look here. I've whipped up a couple of lessons that will teach you how to code a simple G2 module to do what you're trying to do. It's honestly not the greatest piece of literature, but it's a good rough draft for me. I'll edit it properly later .

Do note however, that the tutorial does not yet cover plugging in to the sidebar navigation as Bharat's module does.

Great! Let me know if there's anything you're stuck on.

Awesome. I didn't actually test out the code, so I'm glad to see it's all working.

You now have a basic grasp of the G2 module and templating system. If you want to add more pages, you can just duplicate MyPage.inc and MyPage.tpl and replace the instances of "MyPage" with the pagename.

Bharat's module is very similar to the one the tutorial teaches you to make, but the module.inc also sets a 'loadSystemContent' callback. Try adding that to your setCallbacks line and pasting the last block of Bharat's module.inc (the @see GalleryModule::loadSystemContent portion) to your module.inc in tutorial2 (make any necessary path changes). Then, copy the HtmlSystemContent.tpl to your tutorial2/templates dir.

This will essentially allow you to add a little block to the sidebar with links to your custom pages (or whatever else you'd want there).

Happy coding.

Bharat, thank you for html module.
The only problem I experienced with it while using G2 embedded into phpnuke, is that nuke's Sidebar Block shows "There isn't content right now for this block." as soon as i click on 'My page' (which shows up just fine).
The same problem could be seen when i try to use search located in sidevar: all results are correct, but sidebar shows "there isn't content.."
It could happen that problem comes form actual nukes' G2 module....

nope. it hapens EVERY TIME when i use sidebar for accessing something else, other than images/albums, for example:
1. I type something in the search field located in sidebar and hit 'search'...
2. when i click 'advanced search', page refreshes...
3. I click on "Members List", and user list opens...
in all case the correct page opens, BUT all content in nuke's block-G2sidebar.php dissapears and shows up inside gallery2 module...

i've been playing around with this for a bit and i've got it working. i set up a faq on my site. the only problem is, the sidebar doesn't work. the link to my faq appears in the sidebar, but when the faq page loads, there is no sidebar. i followed the instructions in the tutorial, which says to use this:

list ($ret, $navigationView) = GalleryView::loadView('core:Navigation');
        if ($ret->isError()) {
            return array($ret->wrap(__FILE__, __LINE__), null);
        }

        list ($ret, $ignored) = $navigationView->loadTemplate($template, $form);
        if ($ret->isError()) {
            return array($ret->wrap(__FILE__, __LINE__), null);
        } 

am i missing something else? i'm a total novice with php.

by the way, this is exactly what i was looking for. i have another thread about an email module. i'm sure if i can get over this little issue, i'll be able to close out that other thread too. thanks in advance!

thanks. i'll look into that. do you know of a tutorial?

got it - thanks! all works fine now.

That's because my dummy module doesn't include any sidebar support. I'm redoing how that part of the system works, with Beta 3 as a target. If you can hold on for a while, then this should be resolved.

Thanks, feel free to link to it from the site - it's not going anywhere.

I'm planning on pursuing the writing of a lesson series idea. I know from experience how frustrating it can be to try to understand the G2 module system if you don't have significant PHP experience. However, I think the main challenge that has to be overcome is understanding how the files interact with each other and creating those first two or three modules. Once the developer 'gets' the system, they will need little assistance to teach themselves further functionality.

Any further comments welcome, of course.

Edit: it seems like this thread has strayed from it's original topic somewhat. Would it be possible to rename it to better reflect the nature of the discussion, so users searching/browsing the forum would be more likely to come across relevant information? Something like 'Custom pages for G2'.

Anybody?

oddhNP, I don't think an answer will be forthcoming soon. Don't know why some questions are answered and some not but it appears that's the way it is here

valiant, Thanks for your reply. As I stated in my initial post the module installed fine for me too after making the necessary changes but acording to the the post from bharat and I quote

"I've made a simple demo module that puts a "My Stuff" box in the sidebar and a "My Page" link in it, which takes you to a very simple view that just renders the template of your choice. I'm attaching it here. "

I do not see the My Stuff box on the sidebar. oddhNP wrote he had the same problem...no My Stuff box on the sidebar. I did delete the template and database cache but still no My Stuff box on the sidebar.

This is the spot I'm stuck at. Hopefully you can help us out.

Thanks again

valiant...thanks for the info. At least I now know it's not something I was doing wrong

it's the attachement to the first post of this topic.
but please read the most recent messages. it's out of date and doesn't work as it should right now.

maybe the tutorial is out of date or you did something else wrong, because modules/core/Navigation.inc just doesn't exist.

This is something that would be very useful to me also. I'm running a released version of G2 with CoreApi 6.8 and ModuleApi 2.0.

Is there anyone who can tweak the HTML module to operate correctly with the current version?

Thanks in advance,

J.

Well, the StaticHTML module's modification 'works' if by that you mean 'allows itself to be installed'. Something like the rpm Linux command line switch --force (it works but it overides all the built in checks).

I wonder if this has happened here... looking within the StaticHTML module it would seem that I should expect to see linker instances of 'My Stuff' and/or 'My Page' but I haven't found any such yet.

Is there anything else to be done, or have I overcustomised everything here to the point that I can't see the effects of an activated StaticHTML module?

im a complete newbie, but would this work as a workaround?:

use the current out of date staticHTML module(with $this->setRequiredCoreApi(array(6, 8));
$this->setRequiredModuleApi(array(2, 0)) inserted), and simply add a link to /main.php?g2_view=staticHTML:MyPage in the sidebar.tpl file of your theme

i think you can still apply the concept of that nice suggestion..

yeah, we need to update this module at some point...

btw: it's "spider" and not "spyder" (just pointing this out since you're writing spyder in all your posts )

icpix, i was in fact able to get my idea to work. your error message is exactly what i see when i mistype the name of the module in the url. i believe the syntax for the link should be "/main.php?g2_view=[modulename]:[templatepage]". if you downloaded the html.tar.gz module in the beginning of this thread, then modulename would be html and template page would be HtmlPage (cap sensitive). check that your naming of everything is correct and let me know if that works.

I now have an info (static) page up;~) To scale this up for more separate pages I assume I need to add more modules albeit with differing names, or is there a more ergonomic programming type solution within the existing module?
----best wishes, Robert