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[craigs Friend craigsJoin date: January 2008Posts: 9Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#126705

Hello all,

I need to make a modifiication to JA Avian II to support Front Page Slide Show. Here is what I am doing. I want to use FPSS instead of the gallery component that comes with Avian II, as it offers features that I want to use.

So I replaced the included slideshow with FPSS at user 5, sized it correctly, and it works just fine ont he front page. The issue however is that it is referenced on every page. The solution as proposed by the author of FPSS is as follows:

Many have asked on how to force “Frontpage Slideshow” to display on their site’s frontpage only, when they click on a content item.

There is a background on this, as a change (to the Itemid handling) was introduced in Joomla! 1.0.12. More about it and a proposed solution here:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,125365.msg617835.html#msg617835

There is also a simpler way to do what you want and this involves adding 2-3 lines of code to your template’s index.php file…

Assuming you are publishing FPSS on module position “user1”, find the “user1” module code (something like <?php mosLoadModules(‘user1’); ?>) and change it to this:

Code:

<?php
if(mosCountModules(‘user1′) && $option==’com_frontpage’) {
mosLoadModules(‘user1’);
}
?>

This code ensures that the FPSS will only show up on your site’s frontpage, no matter what, and of course, without touching any Joomla core files.

How to I modify the Avian II template t reflect this? The site (in test mode) is available for your review at http://www.craigsimonphotography.com Just click on the read more for the top content item to see how it displays on content items.

Thanks in advance.
Craig

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#242672

Did you set the FPSS to show just on frontpage? As i just did a test here with FPSS and this template and i cant get the error you get.

[craigs Friend craigsJoin date: January 2008Posts: 9Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#244637

Menalto,

The code snippit was to allow FPSS show on the front page. How can you do that from the UI?

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#244659

You can try to with this one:

<?php if( JRequest::getVar( 'view' ) == 'frontpage' ) { ?>
<div id="ja-topsl-main">
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="user5" style="raw" />
</div>
<?php } ?>

[craigs Friend craigsJoin date: January 2008Posts: 9Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#246144

Sorry,

I am still not quite getting it. What file is that code from? Any hints on where I should make the change?

Thanks

[Menalto Friend MenaltoJoin date: May 2007Posts: 4736Downloads:0Uploads:43 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 531 times in 361 posts]

#246155

if you open up the index.php file in the template you see this:

<?php if( $this->CountModules('user5') ) {?>
<div id="ja-topsl-main">
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="user5" style="raw" />
</div>
<?php } ?>
replace with this:

<?php if( JRequest::getVar( 'view' ) == 'frontpage' ) { ?>
<div id="ja-topsl-main">
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="user5" style="raw" />
</div>
<?php } ?>

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