Home Page Views Version - 2.0.18

demsley

I've been trying to set up the theme view for the home page for visitors ( ie not logged in). When someone is logged in I know it uses the theme/views/default.master.php

I've been digging, a lot, and cannot find the view that the home page uses. Could anyone enlighten me please?

Cheers

Dave

R_J

The default.master.php/default.master.tpl is used for all visitors. The default.master can be understood as a layout file:

---------------
|Menu        | 
---------------
|panel|content |
---------------
|Footer      | 
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If you want to present visitors another page than logged in users, you should consider redirecting them early. Either make this a theme hook or a plugin:

    public function gdn_dispatcher_beforeAnalyzeRequest_handler($sender, $args) {
        // Exit when user is logged in.
        if (Gdn::session()->isValid()) {
            return;
        }
        // Exit when this is not the home page.
        if (c('Routes.DefaultController', '')[0] != $sender->Request) {
            return;
        }
        // When guests visit home page, show them custom page
        redirectTo('/plugin/helloguest');
    }
    public function pluginController_helloGuest_create($sender) {
        echo 'Hello Guest!';
        // Better:
        // $sender->render('helloguest', '' 'plugins/helloguest');
    }

R_J

Oh, there is a plugin which does half of the job...
https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/guestdefaultroute-plugin

Together with some other plugin you will not need to write anything on your own: https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/basicpages-plugin