IP page Building menu link and pulling data

[Eudemon]

in page building, without using IPB template

would like to know how to pull menu item from the system

maybe something like this

{foreach menu}

{button}

{end}

also want to know how to pull activity data as well as applying some filter, and pulling the language button

trying looking into documentation and digging in theme, couldn't find it

I know there is an output object, but how do I find the calls that I can use?

[steve00]

5 hours ago, Eudemon said:

in page building, without using IPB template

would like to know how to pull menu item from the system

maybe something like this

{foreach menu}

{button}

{end}

also want to know how to pull activity data as well as applying some filter, and pulling the language button

trying looking into documentation and digging in theme, couldn't find it

I know there is an output object, but how do I find the calls that I can use?

Not sure if helps but what I done was copied the whole globalTemplate into a new Pages template and removed the bits I do not need

Remember to make sure all your pages are set to use your new template

[Eudemon]

I am just building one single page, so not using any template

just tested with globalTemplate, the code that pulls menu items is

{template="navBar" app="core" group="global" params=""}

however, it will just pull all the links including some links i don't want and i can't style each one individually

I know I can just build one menu myself but i want to preserve the language setting

maybe I need to look at what this part stores and build two menu based on the value, any idea?

lang="{expression="\IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->bcp47()"}"

 

[Meddysong]

16 hours ago, Eudemon said:

maybe I need to look at what this part stores and build two menu based on the value, any idea?

lang="{expression="\IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->bcp47()"}"

 

That's the bit that states "lang="eo-US", lang="eo-GB" etc.

If you wanted to create specific content per language then you could use a structure along the lines of

{{if \IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->short === 'eo_XX.UTF-8' }}
<p><em>HTML to display for Esperanto</em></p>
{{else}}
<p><em>HTML to display for another language, including English</em></p>
{{endif}}

but probably even better is to create language strings which feature the HTML and then call them in the template.

[Eudemon]

thanks for the reply, one concern is i don't know whether this code will reflect on non-logged in guests

\IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->short === 'eo_XX.UTF-8'

[Meddysong]

10 hours ago, Eudemon said:

thanks for the reply, one concern is i don't know whether this code will reflect on non-logged in guests

I had the same fear myself because it looks as though it shouldn't. So I've just logged out and confirmed on a test page on my own site and it's working:

[Eudemon]

this problem might seem noob but

how do I find out what this part returns

\IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->short

and how do I call a language string let's say the word "blog" that has key "__api_blog_blogs"

 

Is there any guide for finding out these kind of parameters? I tried digging the forum and documentation but no luck

thanks

[Meddysong]

5 hours ago, Eudemon said:

how do I find out what this part returns

\IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->short

{expression="\IPS\Member::loggedIn()->language()->short"}

5 hours ago, Eudemon said:

and how do I call a language string let's say the word "blog" that has key "__api_blog_blogs"

{lang="__api_blog_blogs"}

5 hours ago, Eudemon said:

Is there any guide for finding out these kind of parameters? I tried digging the forum and documentation but no luck

Not that I know of. And I've tried looking a lot because I'm totally new to this sort of thing!

[Eudemon]

thanks a lot

9 hours ago, Meddysong said:

And I've tried looking a lot because I'm totally new to this sort of thing!

it seems like they really need to improve their documentation