Add custom code to homepage only

purjo

Hello,

I cant seem to get my head around the templating system and how the views work in vanilla. I have a site with categories&discussions as homepage and I want to add some custom content after the header, but don't want it to show on other pages.

I have tried editing the master template, discussions view files and installing custom pages plugin. With custom pages plugin i couldn't get the categories and discussions and the sidebar to show.

Just don't get it.. I find the views very confusing. How do I add custom content to the homepage?

422

So like:

< body id="vanilla_discussions_index" class="Vanilla Discussions index ">

and you wish to add a specific class, then chain it to the above class. like so

< body id="vanilla_discussions_index" class="Vanilla Discussions index purjo">

422

look at body id,

so lets say the body id of index is id="vanilla_index" then you can target a css rule just for that id occurence.

422

So like:

< body id="vanilla_discussions_index" class="Vanilla Discussions index ">

and you wish to add a specific class, then chain it to the above class. like so

< body id="vanilla_discussions_index" class="Vanilla Discussions index purjo">

purjo

Thanks for the fast reply.

But I can't actually use a css hack like that. The code I'm about to include is some heavyweight php that the server cannot afford to run on every page load in vain.

lifeisfoo

Probably you need to use themehooks, see http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/177523/#Comment_177523

peregrine

So test for the url of the page and only include your php if it is the url you want. see

 $RequestArgs = Gdn::Request()->GetRequestArguments();      
            $uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; 
            $qs = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
            if (preg_match('|/index.php\?p\=/|',$uri)) {
                }
         $Debug = "y";
             if ($Debug == "y")) {
               echo "<br />===";
               echo "<br /> The uri for this page is: |  " . $uri ." |";
               echo "<br /> The url for this page is: |  " . Url() ." |";  
               echo "<br /> The qs for this page is:  |  " .  $qs  ." |";
               echo "<br />===<br />";

               }