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Pages

The Pages module (pages) introduces the "Page" content type to the CMS Icybee. Pages are used to created the website tree, display contents and views. The module provides a request dispatcher to serve the pages it manages.

Blueprint

A blueprint is a simplified data structure representing the relationship between pages. It provides child/parent relations, parent/children relations, an index, and a tree representation. The blueprint can be created from a Query or can be obtained from the pages model.

The following properties are available:

• relations: Child/parent relations, key to key.
• children: Parent/children relations, key to key.
• index: The blueprint nodes, indexed by key.
• tree: The blueprint nodes, nested in a tree.
• model: The model associated with the blueprint.

Obtaining a blueprint from a query

The following example demonstrates how a blueprint can be obtained from a Query instance. Only the nid and parent_id properties are required to build the bulueprint, but you might want more than that to be useful. In the example, the blueprint is created with the additional properties slug and pattern:

Obtaining a blueprint from the model

A blueprint can be obtained from the pages model. This blueprint is often used to compute navigation or resolve routes. It is created with the additional properties is_online, is_navigation_excluded, and pattern.

Note: This blueprint is cached, that is two calls to the blueprint() method with the same argument yield the same instance. If you require to modify the blueprint itself you are advised to use a clone.

Obtaining a subset of a blueprint

A subset can be created from a blueprint, this is interesting when you wish to work with a particular branch, or only the nodes that have a maximum depth of 2, or maybe only the online nodes.

The following example demonstrates how a subset of a blueprint with only the branch of a particular branch can be obtained:

The following example demonstrates how a subset of a blueprint with nodes that have a maximum depth of 2 can be obtained:

The following example demonstrates how a subset of a blueprint with only the online nodes can be obtained using a closure:

Populating a blueprint

Once you have obtained a blueprint you might want to populate it with actual records. The populate() method populates a blueprint by loading the associated records, and updates the blueprint nodes with them. Don't worry about performance, the records are obtained with a single query through the find() method of the model, and benefit from its caching mechanisms.

Obtening and ordered array of nodes or records

Through the ordered_nodes and ordered_records read-only properties you can obtain an array of nodes or records. They are ordered according to their weight and relation.

Traversing a blueprint

The index of the blueprint holds all of its nodes in a flat array. The order is non important.

The following example demonstrates how to traverse a blueprint using its index:

The navigation element

The NavigationElement class makes it very easy to render a navigation element from a blueprint.

Will render something like this (prettyfied for lisibility):

Before the navigation element is populated with children

The event Icybee\Modules\Pages\NavigationElement::populate:before of class BeforePopulateEvent is fired before the navigation element is populated with children.

Third parties may use this event to alter the blueprint. For instance, using a subset instead of the complete blueprint.

The following code demonstrates how the node with id "5" is discarded from the navigation:

After the navigation element was populated with children

The event Icybee\Modules\Pages\NavigationElement::populate of class PopulateEvent is fired after the navigation element was populated with children.

Third parties may use this event to alter the renderable elements of the navigation. For instance, one can replace links, classes or titles.

The following example demonstrates how to alter the href and target attributes of navigation links:

Rendering pages

Page instances are rendered using a PageRenderer instance. This is usually handled by the PageController, but sometimes you might want to do that yourself, without being required to dispatch a request, for example when rendering a Page instance that you have created yourself.

Events are fired before and after the rendering, allowing third parties to alter the rendering.

The module also provides a default renderer that is used when rendering a Page instance to a HTML string with either the render() prototype method, or __toString().

You can override the render() method to use your own renderer:

Before the rendering

The event Icybee\Modules\Pages\PageRenderer::render:before event of class BeforeRenderEvent is fired before the page is rendered. Third parties may use this event to alter the rendering context, or the assets of the document.

After the rendering

The event Icybee\Modules\Pages\PageRenderer::render event of class RenderEvent is fired after the page was rendered. Third parties may use this event to alter the HTML string produced.

The inject() method is used to insert a HTML fragment relative to an element in the produced HTML. The following example demonstrates how the content of a $fragment variable can be injected at the bottom of the BODY element.

The replace() method is used to replace a placeholder by a HTML fragment.

Prototype methods

Icybee\Modules\Sites\Site::lazy_get_home

The home getter is added to instances of Icybee\Modules\Sites\Site. It returns the home page of the instance:

ICanBoogie\Core::get_page

The page getter is added to instances of ICanBoogie\Core. It returns the page currently being displayed. The getter is a shortcut to $app->request->context->page.

Patron markups

The following Patron markups are defined by the module:

• p:breadcrumb
• p:navigation
• p:navigation:leaf
• p:page:content
• p:page:languages
• p:page:region
• p:page:title

The p:navigation markup

Navigation elements for the current page are rendered with the p:navigation markup.

The CSS class names to use by the navigation branch can be specified with the css-class-names parameter. The default is "'-constructor -slug -template'", which removes the constructor, slug, and template names. The maximum depth of the navigation is specified by the depth parameter. The starting level of the navigation is specified by the from-level parameter. Using the min-children parameter, navigation branches can be discarded if they don't include enough direct children. Finally, the parent parameter can be used to specify the parent of the navigation, which can be specified as a Page instance, an identifier, or a path.

The template is published with a NavigationElement instance as thisArg.

The p:navigation:leaf markup

Render a navigation leaf from the current page.

css-class-name specifies the modifiers to use to generate the CSS classes of the header and the content nodes. It defaults to "active trail id". depth is the maximum depth of the branch. It defaults to 2.

The template is published with a NavigationBranchElement instance as thisArg.

Requirement

The package requires PHP 5.5 or later.

Installation

The recommended way to install this package is through Composer:

Cloning the repository

The package is available on GitHub, its repository can be cloned with the following command line:

$ git clone https://github.com/Icybee/module-pages.git pages

Testing

The test suite is ran with the make test command. Composer is automatically installed as well as all the dependencies required to run the suite. The package directory can later be cleaned with the make clean command.

The package is continuously tested by Travis CI.

Documentation

The documentation for the package and its dependencies can be generated with the make doc command. The documentation is generated in the docs directory using ApiGen. The package directory can later by cleaned with the make clean command.

License

This package is licensed under the New BSD License - See the LICENSE file for details.