PHP and HTML inline together in a block?

Permalink October 21, 2014 at 1:27 AM

Ok, I'm new to concrete5. Please forgive me if this is obvious

My goal: to create a chunk of code containing both PHP and HTML that can be used on every page. In this case, I am looking to make the top section of my site which contains the logo, site name, tagline, etc.

I get it that I need to have a stack which contains the blocks that contain my content. Here is the problem: I can't use inline PHP in any block. I need to use inline php, in this case, so that I can get to the logo image by way of the theme path.

Here's my code that I wish to use, so you can see what I mean. Pretty standard stuff.

<div id="logo"><a href="/"> <img src="<?php   echo $this-&>getThemePath(); ?>/images/logo.gif" /> </a></div>
<div id="sitetitle">
<h1><a title="Home" href="/">MY SITE NAME</a></h1>
<h2>MY TAGLINE</h2>
</div>
</div>

I don't want to have to paste this in every single page type. I want to have it is ONE place and call it up when I need it.

I am pretty sure this goal of mine is one of the most standard things that any designer will do with any website, so there must be something that I am not seeing. How do I solve this?

goodnightfirefly replied on Oct 21, 2014 at 2:39 am Permalink Reply

You can place your code (see the snippet below) into your theme's elements/header.php file, and use a custom page attribute to determine whether or not to display that code block.

Create a new Checkbox attribute (Dashboard > Pages & Themes > Attributes), and whatever you name the handle can be used in the code snippet below. For example, I've named it 'display_my_code'.

if ($c->getAttribute('display_my_code')) {
    YOUR_CODE_HERE
}

If you would prefer to display your code on every page EXCEPT for a selection of pages, do something this:

if (!$c->getAttribute('dont_display_my_code')) {
    YOUR_CODE_HERE
}

You can then add your new attribute to a page by editing the page properties.

In version 5.6, $c is a variable automatically provided to you representing the current page.
In version 5.7, you must declare it yourself with $c = Page::getCurrentPage();