JoomlaCompatibility
string Template_Name
string Template_Color
This function generates objects, variables and defines that
satisfy a Joomla template so that it will execute and serve up
Andromeda content.
The first parameter is the name of the template to use. The template
files should be in a subdirectory of your app's "templates" directory,
and that subdirectory should have the same name as the template.
The second parameter, which defaults to blank,
is assigned to $GLOBALS['template_color'].
Other actions of this program are:
- defines constant _VALID_MOS as true
- defines constant _ISO as empty
- assigns the application's root directory to global
variable $mosConfig_absolute_path.
- assigns an empty string to global variable $mosConfig_live_site.
- creates empty global $my object with property 'id' set to false
- creates empty global $mainframe object, whose getTemplate() method always
returns the template name.
The universal dispatcher, index_hidden, looks for the defined constant
_VALID_MOS, and if found it uses the named Joomla template instead of an
Andromeda template. It also exposes the necessary global variables
that were defined above.
The compatibility layer provides a handful of functions to emulate the
functions used by Joomla. The most important function is mosMainBody,
which calls directly to ehStandardContent. The other functions tend
toward being more placeholders.
When you use a Joomla template, there are a handful of tasks that must
be performed:
- Insert a link to the Andromeda javascript library, raxlib.js into
the template.
- Code up routine appCountModules, which handles calls to Joomla
function mosCountModules.
- Code up routine appShowModules, which handles calls to Joomla
function mosLoadModules.
- Identify the template's CSS classes for menu modules and menu items,
and assign them in applib using vgaSet to 'MENU_CLASS_MODL' and
'MENU_CLASS_ITEM'.
- Look for any hard-coded configuration parameters that you want to
override and REM them out.
- Copy the x2.css file from andro/clib into the template's CSS
directory, and link to it from the template main file.
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