Tome Mod and site index templates

Off the top of my head, it seems like you could do something like

{if static_page == ""}{assign_variable:static_page="home"}{/if}

at the beginning of your template.

Thorvald, did you ever get this worked out? If so, I’d love to hear the solution as I’ve run into the same problem.

Yeah, I did. Figured out Evil Spy’s solution about 10 minutes before he suggested it. 😛

{if static_page == ""}{assign_variable:static_page="6"}{/if}

Or, whatever your index-category ID happens to be.

Yeah, I got that to work for the content (took me a while to figure out I had to use the category ID and not the name), but my menus still don’t work – maybe because my menus are embedded. I’ll keep experimenting. 😊

Thanks for the reply.

Ah. Menus.

Here’s my solution:

<div id="menu" class="heading">    
<ul> 

    {if static_page == ""}
        {exp:weblog:categories weblog="content" parent_only="yes" style="linear" show_empty="no"}
        
        <li>
            <a href="http://{path=}<?php" title="Link to {category_name}"> {category_name}</a>
          </li>

        {/exp:weblog:categories}

    {if:else}
        {exp:static_page_path direction="post" nest="false" page="0" depth="1" show_empty="no"}

             <li>
                <a href="http://{url_title}" title="Link to {title}" class="current">{title}</a>
              </li>

        {/exp:static_page_path}
    {/if}
</ul>
    
</div>

Looking at it with fresh eyes, though. I might be able to use an embed variable to pass the static page id into the sub-template. Hmmmmm.

That looks a lot like what I came up with. Thanks for sharing.

Cool.

What did you come up with? I’m having trouble adapting this to another site I’m building – cut and paste ftl, I guess. Might help to see your solution.

Well, it’s kind of a mess, but here’s my main nav (parents only):

<div id="mainnav">
{if seg_1 == "index.php" && seg_2 == ""}
   <?php $count = 1; ?>
   <ul>
   {exp:weblog:categories weblog="pages" style="linear" show_empty="yes" parent_only="yes"}
    <li><a href="http://{site_url}{category_url_title}class=page_<?=$count++?>">{category_name}</a></li>
   {/exp:weblog:categories}
   </ul>
{if:elseif seg_1 == ""}
   <?php $count = 1; ?>
   <ul>
   {exp:weblog:categories weblog="pages" style="linear" show_empty="yes" parent_only="yes"}
    <li><a href="http://{site_url}{category_url_title}class=page_<?=$count++?>">{category_name}</a></li>
   {/exp:weblog:categories}
   </ul>
{if:else}
   <?php $count = 1; ?>
   <ul>
   {exp:static_tome_path direction="post" page="0" depth="1" nest="false"}
       <li><a href="http://{url_title}class=page_<?=$count++?>">{title}</a></li>
   {/exp:static_tome_path}
   </ul>
{/if}
</div><!-- #mainnav -->

If you can get away with some php in your embeded template I added:

<?php 
  global $IN;
  if(!isset($IN->global_vars['static_page'])){
    $IN->global_vars['static_page'] = 'your_index_cat_id';
  }
?>

which seems to be working fine. Your template needs to allow PHP Input.

Hi,

I’m having similar problems with static_tome_path. I can’t get the menu to appear on my home page. I’ve tried a few of the solutions above to no avail.

I have this in my site’s header template.

{if static_page == ""}{assign_variable:static_page="35"}{/if}

Where 35 is the ID of the tome page for /home - a top level category.

I might could just pull some redirect stuff via apache but seems like other people have worked this out without resorting to that. What am I missing? Here’s my menu code:

<div id="nav">
        {exp:static_tome_path direction="post" page="0" depth="0" }
            <a href="http://{url_title}" title="Link to {title}" class="{short_name}-nav">{title}</a>
        {/exp:static_tome_path}
    </div>

The menu lives in the footer include. I tried sticking the if statement in my footer as well, just in case, to no avail.

Thanks for any insight.

Will

pretty please?

Not sure if it is a similar issue or not. I don’t use static_tome_path tag to generate the menu in my embedded file becuase the file may be included from either a Tome page or standard EE page. I just use exp:weblog:categories to populate the menu.