How to include a custom footer?

[farmer]

I'm a bit confused here... There was an explanation on the faq.htm about how to add a custom header to CPG. Ok, did that, and all is working just fine. But how can I add a custom FOOTER to my CPG? It must be a 'function pagefooter', right? But how to change or edit that function? :roll:

cpg1.2.0rc2 here.

Any help is appreciated!

[DJMaze]

Open your template.html files and add your footer below {GALLERY}

Or the nicer approach:
Open theme.php and echo something above $template_footer

[farmer]

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<?php include &#40;'/path/to/my/footer.tpl'&#41;; ?> won't work on template.html.
I tried to add this line to theme.php as well, but no luck. The script gives me a "warning: can't open bla-blah" error (though the footer.tpl is in right place).

More ideas?

[Joachim Müller]

hm, did you insert your include statement right before (or after)

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echo $template_footer;in theme.php (mind you: absolute path, not relative!)?
What should the ending .tpl hint to? Usually tpl is not being parsed by PHP, so there's little use of just including a text file dynamically - you could as well use the variant with template.html
If you had in mind to use a template (e.g. from phpBB) and use it in Coppermine, then you're wrong. This is not meant to work.

GauGau

[farmer]

OK, this is what I have in theme.php:

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function pageheader($section, $meta = '')  
{
   global $CONFIG, $THEME_DIR;
   global $template_header, $lang_charset, $lang_text_dir;


//        THIS IS MY ADDITION

if(empty($custom_header)){
require("/absolute/path/to/my/header.txt");
$custom_header = ob_get_contents();
ob_clean();
}

//        ADDITION END

   header('P3P: CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa OUR IND PHY ONL UNI COM NAV INT DEM PRE"');
   user_save_profile();
                 
   $template_vars = array(
      '{LANG_DIR}' => $lang_text_dir,  
      '{TITLE}' => $CONFIG['gallery_name'].' - '.$section,
      '{CHARSET}' => $CONFIG['charset'] == 'language file' ? $lang_charset :

$CONFIG['charset'],
      '{META}' => $meta,
      '{GAL_NAME}' => $CONFIG['gallery_name'],
      '{GAL_DESCRIPTION}' => $CONFIG['gallery_description'],    
      '{MAIN_MENU}' => theme_main_menu(),
      '{ADMIN_MENU}' => theme_admin_mode_menu(),  
      '{CUSTOM_HEADER}' => $custom_header,                  // <- THIS LINE IS ADDED, TOO
   );
   
   echo template_eval($template_header, $template_vars);  
}  
And I added {CUSTOM_HEADER} to the top of  template.htm.

So far is all just fine. But when I try to add a footer part, it messes up my whole page.

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      include("/absolute/path/to/my/footer.txt");
      echo $template_footer;
}

I tried to change the order ( echo  BEFORE include statement), but nothing...

huh, I'm in trouble  :roll:

[farmer]

or maybe I have to add

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include ('/absolute/path/to/my/footer.txt'); manually to every .php file?

[hyperion]

No, that will not work.

Here is an example for the use of echo

echo "<br><br>Copyright 2003. All rights reserved.<br>";
echo $template_footer;


Alternatively, you might try:

// Create Custom Footer
if(empty($custom_footer)){
require("/absolute/path/to/my/footer.txt");
$custom_footer = ob_get_contents();
ob_clean();
}

and place immediately after the similar code for the header (no later, or it will not work). Then add

'{CUSTOM_FOOTER}' => $custom_footer,

to the array list.

Next, place {CUSTOM_FOOTER} where you want it in the template file.

[farmer]

Thanks for your input.
I can't use echo, my footer is about 15-16 kB (right menu column with dynamic content like last news headlines and recent questions from my faq section etc. etc.)

I tried your way to solve my little problem, but with no success. Now it seems that my browser cannot load the page at all. It just freezes while trying to open the page :roll:

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function pageheader($section, $meta = '')  
{
   global $CONFIG, $THEME_DIR;
   global $template_header, $lang_charset, $lang_text_dir;

if(empty($custom_header)){
require("/absolute/path/to/header.txt");
$custom_header = ob_get_contents();
ob_clean();
}
// Create Custom Footer
if(empty($custom_footer)){
require("/absolute/path/to/footer.txt");
$custom_footer = ob_get_contents();
ob_clean();
}

   header('P3P: CP="CAO DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa OUR IND PHY ONL UNI COM NAV INT DEM PRE"');
   user_save_profile();
                 
   $template_vars = array(
      '{LANG_DIR}' => $lang_text_dir,  
      '{TITLE}' => $CONFIG['gallery_name'].' - '.$section,
      '{CHARSET}' => $CONFIG['charset'] == 'language file' ? $lang_charset : $CONFIG['charset'],
      '{META}' => $meta,
      '{GAL_NAME}' => $CONFIG['gallery_name'],
      '{GAL_DESCRIPTION}' => $CONFIG['gallery_description'],    
      '{MAIN_MENU}' => theme_main_menu(),
      '{ADMIN_MENU}' => theme_admin_mode_menu(),  
      '{CUSTOM_HEADER}' => $custom_header,
      '{CUSTOM_FOOTER}' => $custom_footer,
   );
   
   echo template_eval($template_header, $template_vars);  
}  Is the above right?

[hyperion]

There should not be a comma after the $custom_footer variable.  That tells PHP to expect another variable for the array.

[farmer]

Yep, my mistake.
But that didn't fix the problem...

Any more ideas?

[hyperion]

You might try a test by putting the path to the footer in place of the path of the header.  That would let you know if it is a problem with placement (It might be getting tucked in the table or something).

Also, you could forgoe the requiring business and read the file contents into the variable from the file.  

$original_handle = fopen("path/to/footer", "r");

while(!feof($original_handle)) {
        $buffer = fread($original_handle, 1024);
        $custom_footer .= $buffer;
}

fclose($original_handle);

Then you could print the contents of the file in a manner similar to the echo command,

print $custom_footer;

That would keep it dynamic while somewhat simplifying things.

You can always use the anycontent module, too.

[farmer]

I thought I know PHP at least a little, but turns out I know nothing.

OK, the footer is FINALLY there (menu tables and stuff like that), but without any dynamic content. I can see my php statements on source code though, so it must be something obvious (for you, not for me  :wink: ). As I said before, I'm not a php-guru.

So I'm still in trouble.

[hyperion]

Well of course you aren't getting dynamic statements if you're using php statements in that file.  

I was under the impression you were letting another program modify the contents of a text file.  Why are you naming all your php files with txt extensions?

Also, please post the contents of the footer file here.  That will give us a better idea of how you are trying to do this. (And no, I don't care that it's really long.)

[farmer]

My footer is as follows (a bit simplified to save some space here):

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<!-- END OF COPPERMINE  -->
</td>

<td width="140">

<!-- START RIGHT MENU  -->
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td>
<?php
    if (@include(getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT').'/ads/phpadsnew.inc.php')) {
        if (!isset($phpAds_context)) $phpAds_context = array();
        $phpAds_raw = view_raw ('zone:1', 0, '_blank', '', '0', $phpAds_context);
        echo $phpAds_raw['html'];
    }
?>
</td></tr>

<tr><td>
<?php
    if (@include(getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT').'/ads/phpadsnew.inc.php')) {
        if (!isset($phpAds_context)) $phpAds_context = array();
        $phpAds_raw = view_raw ('zone:2', 0, '_blank', '', '0', $phpAds_context);
        echo $phpAds_raw['html'];
    }
?>
</td></tr>

<tr><td>
<?php
    if (@include(getenv('DOCUMENT_ROOT').'/ads/phpadsnew.inc.php')) {
        if (!isset($phpAds_context)) $phpAds_context = array();
        $phpAds_raw = view_raw ('zone:3', 0, '_blank', '', '0', $phpAds_context);
        echo $phpAds_raw['html'];
    }
?>
</td></tr>

<tr><td>
<?php 
include ('../shop/bestsellers.php');
include ('../shop/specials.php');
include ('../shop/new_stuff.php');
?>
</td></tr></table>

</td>

<!-- RIGHT MENU FINISH -->

</tr></table>

<!-- MAIN TABLE FINISH -->
</body>
</html>