Version 1.5.0 of ZedSeries Library features a ConfigWizard class that lets developers quickly implement custom config options for their Contao extensions.
Config options are managed through a section/key/value schema.
In the following example we’ll manage two configuration options for a virtual extension. We’ll choose to assign to this configuration the name ‘dummy_ext’ (it will be our “section” name). Our two configuration options will be named option_string and option_flag.
ZedSeries Maps 1.2.0 contains the following changes:
Take a look at the new features in the demo page of ZedSeries Maps
If you wish to have a preview of all the features of ZedSeries Maps download the user guide.
The documentation for the ZedSeries Library extension (zedseries_lib) is available at http://api.zedseries.com
This tutorial is tailored for windows users, I’m sure that users of other operating system know how to adapt it to their needs :)
A few days ago I’ve released a command line script that aims to build a Contao extension starting from a language pack.
The project page is located at http://bitbucket.org/zedseries/contao_languagepack_builder/, the script can be downloaded from http://bitbucket.org/zedseries/contao_languagepack_builder/get/v1.0.1.stable.zip
This article has developers as audience, if you came here wondering why your custom template doesn’t get listed, please contact the author of the extension and tell him about this article :)
From version 2.9 Contao introduces the concept to pick templates from different directories and subdirectories.
Contao 2.9 introduces also the concept of themes, and let users assign a directory of templates to a theme. You can read the full announcement here.
If an user put a custom template into a subdirectory of the main templates dir, some extensions will not show it.
Every developers should update their extensions to reflect the above changes, here I will propose a cross-version solution to solve this problem.
If your extension uses a custom template, you will have a line like this in your d.c.a (let me tell we are talking about the tl_example dca):
$GLOBALS[‘TL_DCA’][‘tl_example’][‘fields’][‘my_template_field’] = array(
‘inputType’ => ‘select’,
‘options’ => $this->getTemplateGroup(‘my_prefix’)
);
in order to list the templates that exists in the template folder assigned to a theme, you must make the following changes:
Create a class wherever you want
(the “Contao way” of doing it is to create a class named as the dca inside the same file.)
class tl_example extends Backend {
public function __construct() {
parent::__construct();
}
public function listTemplates($dc) {
if (version_compare(VERSION.BUILD, '2.9.0', '>=')) {
return $this->getTemplateGroup(‘my_prefix’, $dc->activeRecord->pid);
} else {
return $this->getTemplateGroup(‘my_prefix’);
}
}
}
then change the field’s entry in your dca to take the list of templates from the above function:
$GLOBALS[‘TL_DCA’][‘tl_example’][‘fields’][‘my_template_field’] = array(
‘inputType’ => ‘select’,
‘options_callback’ => array('tl_example', 'listTemplates')
);
These changes will make you extension compatible with Contao 2.9 and mantain the compatibilty with older versions.
Please comment below if you find errors or you simply want to say something :)
I have just uploaded the documentation for ZedSeries Library to http://api.zedseries.com.
Feel free to comment below if you find errors or if you have suggestions to improve it.
