Making Vast Changes ... Not Supported?
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Philipp
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Making Vast Changes ... Not Supported?
It would overload the server If any query would be available in the site_header and/or site_footer template. Contentteller (the successor product) have a blocks feature that makes modification like this much easier.
An example on how to integrate database queries in the site_header template of Storyteller CMS is in this thread:
http://www.esselbach.com/thread.php?id=176
A code example to include polls in the blocks is here:
http://www.esselbach.com/thread.php?id=295
Let me know if you need additional help
It would overload the server If any query would be available in the site_header and/or site_footer template. Contentteller (the successor product) have a blocks feature that makes modification like this much easier.
An example on how to integrate database queries in the site_header template of Storyteller CMS is in this thread:
http://www.esselbach.com/thread.php?id=176
A code example to include polls in the blocks is here:
http://www.esselbach.com/thread.php?id=295
Let me know if you need additional help
A client recently hired me on to reapply his design to an Esselbach Storyteller CMS. I have never used the CMS before, although the task seemed simple as it was just some copying and pasting...
WRONG.
Though the design works beautifully, customizing the layout and positioning of information couldn't be any more drastically difficult. What do I mean? For example:
Client would like one of the blocks on the left side to contain the list of "review categories". Well sure, why not as his site is about reviews. $insert[review_categories].... nope doesn't work? Why not, oh because its review and not site_ since I am trying to add it to the site header. Well then, lets get into the raw code and rewrite some of the nasty code...
... nothing. Any queries I write to pull from the database won't grab the information and post it as desired.
This is seriously driving me crazy. Just trying to move the poll into a block on the right side is a living hell because of the poll_header and all that, and then you can't even put it in a block because it has $insert[poll_ and not $insert[site_ .
Help?