By cornernote on

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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mlwhall commented

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?

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killes@www.drop.org commented

For Drupal PHP blocks to work you have to

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

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mlwhall’s picture

mlwhall commented

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

----Martin----

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aheld commented

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.

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chadlupkes commented

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'?

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killes@www.drop.org commented

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:

include('myfile');
$output = call_some_function();
return $output;

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chadlupkes commented

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

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killes@www.drop.org commented

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

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chadlupkes commented

I double checked, and PHP is selected.

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chadlupkes commented

<?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;

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moshe weitzman commented 
if(!arg(0)) {
  print variable_get("site_mission", "");
}
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cnelsonakgov commented

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

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Steven commented

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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cornernote commented

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

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sin commented

I've done it using PHPTemplate in Drupal 4.7 in page.tpl.php with code:
if (($mission)&&($is_front)) {print eval($mission); }
Mission is set in administer/settings/general and contains php code without angle brackets returning a string.