How to use a symfony 1 layout from a different directory

Van de Voorde Toni — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:48:36 +0000

In symfony 1 it is possible to have different layouts for an application. But they all have to be put into the directory ‘myproject/apps/frontend/templates/’. But what if you want to use a layout from another location?

Assume you make a plugin with a specific layout, it would be nice to load the layout from the plugin directory, and not to have to copy the file to the global directory.

Here is how you can achieve this:

$template = $this->getContext()->getConfiguration()->getTemplateDir('MODULE', 'LAYOUT_FILE.php');
$this->setLayout($template . '/LAYOUT_FILE');

Let’s say you have the following:

my_project/
  plugins/
    my_plugin/
      modules/
        MyUser/
          actions/
            actions.php
          templates/
            indexSuccess.php
            MyUserLayout.php

The actions.php class could be something like this:

class MyUserAction extends sfActions {

  public function preExecute() {
    $template = $this->getContext()->getConfiguration()->getTemplateDir('MyUser', 'MyUserLayout.php');

    $this->setLayout($template . '/MyUserLayout');
  }

  public function executeIndex() {

  }
}

Have fun!

Basic tips and tricks: 4.Css

van Rumste Kenneth — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:42:12 +0000

Hello everybody, I’m back with another version of basic tips and tricks.

After having a talk with a client, about the basic on css, I thought it might be good to have an easy introduction.

So let’s give it a try. We’ll talk about:

Why would you use css?
How to insert css in your html file
How css is written
Css on objects, classes and unique objects
Basic css properties and there values
The pseudo class
Where to find good information on css

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language.

CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the colors, fonts, and layout.

Why would you use css?

Whenever you create an html page without css, you will probably insert layout into it. But every object will have to get it’s layout specifications and that could be a hard time, especially if you have a lot of objects that need the same layout.
You don’t know any examples of objects with the same layout?

A menu with 4 or 5 buttons.
Buttons
A list
Different headings and titles
Paragraphs
…

As you can see, I don’t need to think very hard to get different objects on which the same layout can be applied.

I guess you see my point why you could use the same css code over and over again, instead of rewriting it for each object in your page.
And I’m not even talking about different pages or a whole website…

How to insert css in your html file

CSS is a file containing code you and that puts a layout on specific objects in your html file.

That code can be written in a html file within these tags

Or in a css file that is included within the tags.

Whatever css code you write in there will be applied to the code within that page.

If you are creating a website or more than one page, it might be more sufficient to use an include so you can reuse the same code over and over again.

In my opinion the only times you can or should use the

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