How to modify the layout of the panel asset

pixuk

Apologies for a string of questions. Still very fresh to this framework, and couldn't find the answer to this specific question in the tutorials.

So, as I understand it; beyond CSS, default.master handles the overall wrapper of the forum, and you can get down to specifics by creating view overrides in your template folder for other things like the discussions view, etc. What I can't seem to figure out is how and where the Panel is rendered and how to override that.

I get that I can add content above and below my panel in the default.master, and I can style the panel via my custom CSS, but how would one go about editing the HTML content within the panel?

Thanks,

Pete

hgtonight

All calls to Gdn_Controller::RenderAsset($AssetName) render the associated assets. So you are looking to modify the assets content for the 'Panel' asset container. While all assets are strings, most assets are generated via modules. Most modules use views that can be overridden via the template system. Modules that do allow overrides have defaults that can generally be found in the /views/modules/modulename.php.

For example, the default guest module that says "Howdy, Stranger!" has its default view at /applications/dashboard/views/modules/guest.php. Copy that file into your theme starting at the views folder. Change the markup how ever you want to. The framework will automatically load your override on the next render.

pixuk

Great, thanks for the tip - very helpful.

pixuk

Ok, cracked about 95% of it now, just a one main thing foxing me now. Trying to find the code responsible for displaying the list of active discussions (e.g., the default view) and others, such as My Discussions (I think). I had assumed it was /vanilla/views/discussions/table.php as that script looks very much like matches the output, but changing that doesn't seem to effect the rendered list.

pixuk

Ok, spotted it. The table.php script is only if I'm using the table layout, not the default modern view. Doh!

phalc0nline

@hgtonight said:
All calls to Gdn_Controller::RenderAsset($AssetName) render the associated assets. So you are looking to modify the assets content for the 'Panel' asset container. While all assets are strings, most assets are generated via modules. Most modules use views that can be overridden via the template system. Modules that do allow overrides have defaults that can generally be found in the /views/modules/modulename.php.

For example, the default guest module that says "Howdy, Stranger!" has its default view at /applications/dashboard/views/modules/guest.php. Copy that file into your theme starting at the views folder. Change the markup how ever you want to. The framework will automatically load your override on the next render.

Hi! Nice tip, thank you. But, if I want change {serchbox} or another module which template not situated in /applications/.../views/modules/, what I must do?

hgtonight

You need to override the smarty plugin with your code.

Check out this post for more information: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/225311/#Comment_225311