Well, it's been quite a while since I've posted anything here. Lots of things have been going on in my life which has effectively deep-sixed by blogging (not that I've ever been that prolific). But on with the subject of this particular blog post. Those of you who I talked to at cfObjective already know about this, but the big news in my life is that I'm now officially an Application Developer for ten24 Web Solutions!
Lately, I've been doing some work with Greg Moser on the Slatwall Ecommerce plugin for Mura CMS. The other day, I did a core upgrade on my local Mura development instance which I was using for Slatwall. All of a sudden, I couldn't access the Slalwall dashboard even though I was logged in as a Super Admin. No matter what I did, it seemed like I wasn't recognized as a privileged user.
In Mura CMS, there is the concept of templates that make up your site theme. Your theme can have multiple templates, such as a two-column template and a 3 column template which can be assigned to individual pages in your site. You can read more about templates in Mura here. Recently, while working on a Mura site, I wanted my pages to be able to dynamically use either a 2- or a 3-column template depending on whether something was assigned to the right column display region (which was display region #3 in this site).
So I whipped up this template named default.cfm:
<cfif len( trim($.dspObjects(3)) )> <cfinclude template="three_column.cfm" /> <cfelse> <cfinclude template="two_column_SL.cfm" /> </cfif>
So basically it checks to see if anything was assigned to the right column display region. If so, the 3 column template is rendered. If not it defaults to 2 columns. This way, I can just set all pages to the default template and let the content determine whether 2 or 3 columns are used.
A while back, I posted instructions on how to integrate a ColdBox application into a Mura CMS site. Basically, you edit a few files make some configuration changes which allow you to include the ColdBox front controller index.cfm into a Mura page using the [mura] tag. What I didn't make clear is, once you have the home page of the ColdBox app showing up on your page, how do you navigate into other pages (or events) of your ColdBox app? I was recently asked this question by someone who read the original blog post so I thought I'd write this as a follow up.
Given the title of this post, I admit that the timing is a bit off, but I’ve had this post "in the can" for a while and felt like I needed to get this out.
Due to budget and time constraints (yet again), I actually wasn’t able to attend CFObjective() this year. However, I was able to manage flying out to Minneapolis for the "Programmers Guide to Mura CMS" pre-conference training put on by Blue River Interactive.
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