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Can anyone give a me a pointer as to how I go about specifying alternative Calendar.ss layouts based on overall calendar?
I have extended Calendar to add some custom functionality and so I have a custom MyCalendar.ss template. Wnat I want to do is switch between using MyCalendar.ss and MyCalendar2.ss depending on the calendar I'm using. I'm guessing I build a switch based on the overall calendar IR or maybe part of the URL?
Those templates are meant to be overridden. Just place a Calendar.ss, CalendarEvent.ss, etc, in your theme Layout dir.
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Thanks for the reply UC, but what I meant was how i could best rednder the calendar output to use alternative calendar templates depending on what calendart was being used i.e. i have more than one calendar on the website.
Anyway I've resolved my problem now by keeing the Calendar.css, but including some conditional includes to determine from calendar is being called (a bit dirty but I hard-coded condition to use using URLSegment)
Ah, yeah.. In SilverStripe it's one template per controller. So to show an alternate layout, between two pages that use the same controller, you have a couple options. If the changes are pretty simple and non-structural, you can class and id the body element.
<body class="$ClassName" id="$URLSegment">
If it's more complex, then subclass the two controllers
AlternateCalendar.php
AlternateCalendar extends Calendar {}
AlternateCalendar_Controller extends Calendar_Controller {}
AlternateCalendarEvent.php
AlternateCalendarEvent extends CalendarEvent {}
AlternateCalendarEvent_Controller extends CalendarEvent_Controller {}
Of course, the naming pattern is up to you, but that will allow you to create AlternateCalendar.ss and AlternateCalendarEvent.ss. Just remember to change the page types in the Behaviour tab.
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