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s2d replied on Apr 10, 2012 at 12:39 pm Permalink Reply

Here are a couple of links to useful info on creating your own edit zones:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/pages/areas/...
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/editors/another-prim...

To be more specific, you can add as many edit zones to your templates as you like; they each have to have a unique name.

Typically, you would use a snippet like this:

<?php $a = new Area('<name_of_edit_zone>');
$a->display($c); ?>

ggutierrez79 replied on Apr 10, 2012 at 12:44 pm Permalink Reply

Thanks Kate!
I am going to try this now, I'll let you know if I find any difficulty.

ggutierrez79 replied on Apr 10, 2012 at 2:26 pm Permalink Reply 1 Attachment

Hi Kate,

I have added a new div to default.php (plain yoghurt theme)and the result is:

<div id="footer">
<?php $a = new Area('<main_extension>');
$a->display($c); ?>
</div>

Why id=footer? That's a temporary solution, because I have tried id=central with the following css:

#page#central.main_extension{ float: none !important; width: auto !important; }

and I get something unexpected (attached file).
I know it comes from the css and do not know how to name that area in order to be independent of the central and the footer areas.

Many thanks in advance!

s2d replied on Apr 10, 2012 at 2:57 pm Permalink Reply

Oh - sorry, I should have mentioned that the "<...>" brackets are not intended to be included in your name string. That was just to show that it's something you should rename according to your needs.

ggutierrez79 replied on Apr 10, 2012 at 3:07 pm Permalink Reply

Thanks!
I have deleted the brackets. However I still have the same issue. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
Thanks again!

s2d replied on Apr 11, 2012 at 10:16 am Permalink Reply

Well, for one thing, your css element does not define an id called "footer", it defines a class called "main_extension". Still, your edit area should be displayable; it just won't have the properties you are trying to give it. Other than that, once you remove the brackets, it looks like it should work.

ggutierrez79 replied on Apr 11, 2012 at 8:29 pm Permalink Reply

Hi Kate,

Well I managed to create the new area and I managed to create a footer as well. However the footer only shows up in the home page, not in left_sidebar pages or right_sidebar pages. I have also added the new "footer" area in the default.php and left_sidebar.php.
Any idea? Should I paste some code, so as it could help you more to understand where the problem comes from?

Thanks in advance!

s2d replied on Apr 12, 2012 at 11:29 am Permalink Reply

You'll need to duplicate your changes to all the template files that you want to contain the new edit zone.

ggutierrez79 replied on Apr 13, 2012 at 7:51 am Permalink Reply

But I have already made the changes in the file left_sidebar.php and default.php pages. Which else would I have to change? I don't know whether I understand pretty well the difference between page and template.
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/pages/themes/...

Sorry for this! I am a new bee with c5 and despite of I try to get more familiar with it, there are still many points I have to learn how to deal with.

Thanks a lot for your help!

ConcreteOwl replied on Apr 13, 2012 at 9:00 am Permalink Reply

Post the code for the default.php page