Having something display on homepage only

amandamalia · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:01 am

I want a snippet of text to appear on my homepage only. I had it working!

Text for homepage only

And then it mysteriously stopped working. I have no idea why. Anyone know?

This is my dev site (not like it really matters for this issue) http://www.icestonetemp.com/new/

Thanks.

Waseem Sadiq · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:28 am

Nice site Amanda

You could just create a module and put the text in there and publish the module only on the front page

amandamalia · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:01 am

Thanks for the kudos.

I did add it to a module. I added the content to mosMainBody() but (its actually an image) it needs to be totally flush left and mosMainBody() pulls in "contentpaneopen" classes which I cannot figure out how to manipulate. SO, hence my desire to say IF HOME INCLUDE ELSE IGNORE. But my PhP just ain't working.

So any thoughts?

focalguy · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:27 am

I'm confused... is it in a module now and you have that if statement around the mosLoadModules() tag? or it's not in a module and you load it before the mosMainBody() ?

amandamalia · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:45 am

Neither. To keep things simplest, I just want the IF HOME statement to wrap around the image right in the template. I am trying to avoid modules given the extra padding they seem to bring with them. Haaris was just suggesting adding it to a module because assigning modules to just display on the homepage is easy.

focalguy · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:06 am

Ok, so you just have it right in the template. Could you post your template index.php or at least the surrounding portion?

Hmmm, have you removed an image lately? Last time I looked, there was an image in the main content above "IceStone 2006 Palette" but now it's gone.....

focalguy · **Posted:** Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:07 am

Ok, now I see. It's commented out now

Code:

<!--   <img src="http://www.icestonetemp.com/new/images/home_tabletop.jpg" alt="IceStone" border="0" />
                           <br><br> -->

duvien · **Posted:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:18 am

The simplest way is to duplicate the template and assign one to the home menu item. This would be the one you want to add that extra text. Then the other template assigned to the rest of the other menu items. Since the templates are the same in styles, you can have the template pointing to the same CSS files so you don't need to edit two same files all the time when making changes.

hope that helps,

sunburst

--- EDITED ---

Same with the images, you can keep them in the same folder and have both template point the image url to it. This way only thing in one template folder is the index.php and xml file and the main template holds all the necessary files needed

amandamalia · **Posted:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:23 am

Thank you Sunburst once again for helping me. You're the best!

duvien · **Posted:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:02 am

You're welcome.

Remember by doing this you can have your homepage looking any way you want it, including having menus with different links in them to other pages.

An example is a site i did which has a login module box in the center with an image align to the right and no menu. The problem was that when you sign in, that login box became a logout text right in the middle where my main content is. So the trick was to assign a different template so the logout can be place elsewhere, ie, to the top next to the logo after user has logged in.

Thanks,

sunburst

--- EDITED ---

REMOVED LINK TO DEMO SITE (if you want to see it, please PM me). thanks,

amandamalia · **Posted:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:21 am

Thanks Sunburst. I just spent 2 hours working on a second template. Problem is - I am using this 3rd party dropdown menu component called LX Menu Pro which I adore but its causing many problems error messages playing off 2 templates.

So ... I am just going to go bang my head against the wall. After about 6 hours of that, answers usually magically come to me.

These Joomla boards are awesome - I've gotten so much help here. I think I have to work this one out on my own. If only

Text for homepage only

still worked for me - then I wouldn't have ANY issues. Not sure why that code isn't working on my page.

duvien · **Posted:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:46 am

That is strange, the code looks fine to me.

might try it out.

duvien · **Posted:** Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:22 am

amandamalia wrote:

Thanks Sunburst. I just spent 2 hours working on a second template. Problem is - I am using this 3rd party dropdown menu component called LX Menu Pro which I adore but its causing many problems error messages playing off 2 templates.

So ... I am just going to go bang my head against the wall. After about 6 hours of that, answers usually magically come to me.

These Joomla boards are awesome - I've gotten so much help here. I think I have to work this one out on my own. If only

Text for homepage only

still worked for me - then I wouldn't have ANY issues. Not sure why that code isn't working on my page.

Sorry no experience with LXMenu (never used it as i tend to stay away from dropdown menus, must you use it

)

Anyway, tested out your code and it works, same as this:

echo ('Text for homepage only');
} ?>

They work only when the frontpage is either the component frontpage or linked static content but fail to work if it's outputted as blogcategory. So i'm not sure if these have anythig to do with why the code isn't working.

duvien · **Posted:** Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:53 am

In addition, you could try this:

Code:

<?php
defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );
// needed to seperate the ISO number from the language file constant _ISO
$iso = explode( '=', _ISO );
// xml prolog
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'. $iso[1] .'"?' .'>';
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<?php
if($option=="com_frontpage" || $option=="") {
include("templates/YourTemplate/front.php");
}else{
include("templates/YourTemplate/follow.php");
}
?>
</head>

Create 2 PHP-Template files with a different style in your Template folder. The front.php is the first-Page and the follow.php is for the next Mambo-Sides. Taken from: http://mamboteam.com/index.php?option=c ... &Itemid=56

hope that helps,

Sunburst

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