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September 10, 2008 6:32am
Subscribe [2]#1 / Sep 10, 2008 6:32am
if I just seperate my content into header and footer and embed those as {embed="templateGroup/header"}, the final webpage loses styles, title, and anything else that relies on weblogs or variables even if I pass the variables in the embed tag. This is not quite what I expected. It seems all you can do with the embed command is add little snippets of HTML or am I missing something.
#2 / Sep 10, 2008 6:39am
Not really. I think it should work.
It may be that you are not defining the paths correctly. Can we see how your header looks like?
#3 / Sep 10, 2008 6:54am
Header—————————-
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html >
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>{exp:weblog:info weblog="{my_weblog}"}{blog_title}{/exp:weblog:info}</title>
<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='all' href='{stylesheet={this_template_group}/site_css}' />
</head>
<body class="home">
<div id="header">
<h1 id="logo">Avocado Food and Wine Festival</h1>
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li><a href="http://{path={this_template_group}/index}">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://{path={this_template_group}/wineries}">Wineries</a></li>
<li><a href="http://{path={this_template_group}/entertainment}">Entertainment</a></li>
<li><a href="http://{path={this_template_group}/about}">About</a></li>
<li><a href="http://{path={this_template_group}/contact}">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="tray">
<div id="eventdetail">
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="Homepage" limit="1"}
{Date_and_Time}
{Location}
<a href="http://{Google_location}">Show me on a map</a> </div>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
<div id="prices">
<ul>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="tickets" limit="1"}
{exp:simple_commerce:purchase entry_id="{entry_id}" success="{this_template_group}/success" cancel="{this_template_group}/index"}
<li>Admission:</li>
<li class="admission">${exp:number_format number='{item_regular_price}'}</li>
<li>Early bird:</li>
<li class="admission"><a class="earlybird">${exp:number_format number='{item_sale_price}'}</a></li>
{/exp:simple_commerce:purchase}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</ul>
</div>
<div id="sunrise">
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="pages" entry="{this_messageID}" limit="1"}
<h2>{Sunrise_Message}</h2>
<p> {/exp:weblog:entries}<br />
<ul id="conditions"><br />
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="tickets" limit="1"}<br />
{Conditions}<br />
{/exp:weblog:entries}<br />
</ul><br />
</div><br />
<div class="clear"></div><br />
</div><br />
<div class="clear"></div>Template with embed tag in it—————————————-
{embed="avofest/header" this_template_group="avofest" this_messageID="4"}
<div id="sections">
<div class="inner">
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="pages" entry_id="{this_messageID}"}
<h2>{content}</h2>
<p> {/exp:weblog:entries}<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
</div><br />
</div></p>
<p>{embed="avofest/footer"}——————————-
at the moment the page renders with none of the embedded templates rendered properly
I was hoping it would be much simpler
#4 / Sep 10, 2008 6:57am
Not rendered properly, as in the style sheets are not being applied or are some of the embedded pages not being displayed at all?
#5 / Sep 10, 2008 7:05am
http://www.avofest.co.nz/index.php?/avofest/
check out the result and roll over the links in the main menu - the embedded template seems to be rendered literally with {tags} as plain text. Saying that the weblog tags are working in the header - it’s just the variables that don’t get passed to the embedded template.
#6 / Sep 10, 2008 7:23am
By the way your style sheets are not being applied (at least, from my side)
And I cannot see where the variable {this_template_group} is being assigned in the source code you provided earlier.
Additionally, you can also try putting: href=”{homepage}/wineries”
#7 / Sep 10, 2008 10:35am
kriz nailed it- you haven’t defined {this_template_group} so your links are looking like
href='http://www.avofest.co.nz/index.php?css={this_template_group/site_css}' >Keep in mind, a dynamic global applies only to the template it’s on. So you’ll need to define those variables at the top of each embedded template as well. The only way to have a variable ‘pass’ to an embedded template is via the use of embed variables.
That all make sense? Basically- define you’re variables at the top of the included templates and you should be good to go.