Print Mission on the Front Page

Posted by cornernote on July 1, 2003 at 3:48am

Hello,

Some people may like to know how to print the site_mission (as set in the site settings) to the front page of the theme. This will give you a message on the index page (like on drupal.org) that you can edit just by editing the site mission.

Here is the code:
<?php
//if we are looking at the index.php page with no QUERY_STRING then print the site_mission
if(substr($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"], strrpos($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"], "/") + 1)=="index.php" && !$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]) print variable_get("site_mission", "");
?>

Or you may want to print it in a box:
<?php
//if we are looking at the index.php page with no QUERY_STRING then print the site_mission
if(substr($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"], strrpos($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"], "/") + 1)=="index.php" && !$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]) print $this->box(variable_get("site_mission", ""));
?>

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Comments

Print Mission

Posted by mlwhall on September 5, 2003 at 4:08pm

I cannot seem to get this to work. I took the code, added it into a new block, and set it to PHP. But get errors, do I need to put something infront of the PHP code in the Block?

----Martin----

Drupal blocks

Posted by killes@www.drop.org on September 5, 2003 at 10:44pm

For Drupal PHP blocks to work you have to

a) omit the php tags (<?php and ?>)
b) return the content.

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For whatever reason, I just c

Posted by mlwhall on September 7, 2003 at 7:20pm

For whatever reason, I just cannot get it to work :-(

----Martin----

What theme are you using?

Posted by aheld on September 15, 2003 at 9:06pm

The code depends upon the theme.

I recently added this to the bluesky theme by adding this code to the header function (about line 180)

    179     global $user;
    180     if (($user->uid == 0) && ($_GET["q"] == variable_get("site_frontpage        ", "node"))) {
    181                 $this->template->assign("site_mission", variable_get("site_mission", "EDIT THE SITE MISSION"));
    182             $this->template->parse("header.mission");
    183                 }

This assumes that there is a theme block called mission in the header block.

Drupal PHP Blocks

Posted by chadlupkes on August 29, 2004 at 5:48am

Does that allow you to include files? I'm getting the actual code that I'm trying to use instead of what I'm actually trying to do.

http://www.democracyforwashington.com/civicspace-0.5/?q=phptest

Is that what you mean by 'return the content'?

You can do anything that PHP

Posted by killes@www.drop.org on August 29, 2004 at 5:59am

You can do anything that PHP allows you in the block code. Any output, however, needs to be collected in an output string and that string has to be returned:

<?php
include('myfile');
$output = call_some_function();
return $output;
?>

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Hmm, still not working

Posted by chadlupkes on August 29, 2004 at 6:18am

I'm probably not familiar enough with PHP, but I tried a basic value assign and return, and it's just giving the code. When I add in the

<?php
and 
?>

, it gives no result at all. Is there a setting somewhere that I need to change to activate PHP code?

Sure, you have to select "PHP

Posted by killes@www.drop.org on August 30, 2004 at 6:49pm

Sure, you have to select "PHP" as the block's mode.

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Yep, PHP

Posted by chadlupkes on August 31, 2004 at 3:23am

I double checked, and PHP is selected.

Here's the code I'm using:

Posted by chadlupkes on August 31, 2004 at 3:27am

<?php

$testval = "testing";

return $testval;

?>

I've tried it with and without the brackets. With gives no result at all, without gives:

$testval = "testing"; return $testval;

simpler (untested)

Posted by moshe weitzman on September 7, 2003 at 9:13pm

if(!arg(0)) {
  print variable_get("site_mission", "");
}

Doesn't seem to work

Posted by Curtis Nelson on October 2, 2003 at 11:51pm

I tried this in 4.2 and it didn't seem to work. Always returned FALSE.

menu_get_active_item()

Posted by Steven on August 29, 2004 at 4:01pm

It's better to use menu_get_active_item() and compare it to variable_get('site_frontpage', 'node').

(though in CVS/4.5, menu_get_active_item() returns a menu ID rather than the path and you need more code to resolve it to a path)

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Heres a front page module...

Posted by cornernote on January 6, 2005 at 4:24am

Here is a home page module for drupal:
http://mrphp.com.au/node/1654

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How to print mission containing php code to front page

Posted by sin on January 7, 2006 at 5:17pm

I've done it using PHPTemplate in Drupal 4.7 in page.tpl.php with code:

<?php
if (($mission)&&($is_front)) {print eval($mission); } 
?>

Mission is set in administer/settings/general and contains php code without angle brackets returning a string.