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Maybe sidebar could be beefed up to take the name of a sidebar, such that I could use multiple sidebars in the same wiki. For instance, the default name would be 'sidebar', meaning the plugin looks for `sidebar.pm` and fills in the `sidebar` slot, but I might also want a footer in `footer.pm`, filling the template's `footer` slot.
One good way (if possible) would be to provide a directive like `\[[!sidebar
id=sidebar]]` which would cause the file, in which it occurred to fill the
slot `SIDEBAR` in the template: basically, a page `foo.mdwn` says
`\[[!fillslot slot=myslot]]` and then its contents should go into `<TMPL_VAR
SLOT_MYSLOT>` for all pages. Ideally, this can then be overridden, so if
`/bar/foo.mdwn` also references `myslot` then pages under `/bar` should get
those contents instead.
--[[madduck]]
> In mine I just copied sidebar out and made some extra "sidebars", but they go elsewhere. Ugly hack, but it works. --[[simonraven]]
>> Here a simple [[patch]] for multiple sidebars. Not too fancy but better than having multiple copies of the sidebar plugin. --[[jeanprivat]]
>>> I made a [[git]] branch for it [[!template id=gitbranch branch="privat/multiple_sidebars" author="[[jeanprivat]]"]] --[[jeanprivat]]
>>>> Ping for [[Joey]]. Do you have any comment? I could improve it if there is things you do not like. I prefer to have such a feature integrated upstream. --[[JeanPrivat]]
>>>>> The code is fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> I did think about having it examine
>>>>> the `page.tmpl` for parameters with names like `FOO_SIDEBAR`
>>>>> and automatically enable page `foo` as a sidebar in that case,
>>>>> instead of using the setup file to enable. But I'm not sure about
>>>>> that idea..
>>>>>
>>>>> The full compliment of sidebars would be a header, a footer,
>>>>> a left, and a right sidebar. It would make sense to go ahead
>>>>> and add the parameters to `page.tmpl` so enabling each just works,
>>>>> and add whatever basic CSS makes sense. Although I don't know
>>>>> if I want to try to get a 3 column CSS going, so perhaps leave the
>>>>> left sidebar out of that.
<pre>
--- /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/sidebar.pm 2010-02-11 22:53:17.000000000 -0500
+++ plugins/IkiWiki/Plugin/sidebar.pm 2010-02-27 09:54:12.524412391 -0500
@@ -19,12 +19,20 @@
safe => 1,
rebuild => 1,
},
+ active_sidebars => {
+ type => "string",
+ example => qw(sidebar banner footer),
+ description => "Which sidebars must be activated and processed.",
+ safe => 1,
+ rebuild => 1
+ },
}
-sub sidebar_content ($) {
+sub sidebar_content ($$) {
my $page=shift;
+ my $sidebar=shift;
- my $sidebar_page=bestlink($page, "sidebar") || return;
+ my $sidebar_page=bestlink($page, $sidebar) || return;
my $sidebar_file=$pagesources{$sidebar_page} || return;
my $sidebar_type=pagetype($sidebar_file);
@@ -49,11 +57,17 @@
my $page=$params{page};
my $template=$params{template};
-
- if ($template->query(name => "sidebar")) {
- my $content=sidebar_content($page);
- if (defined $content && length $content) {
- $template->param(sidebar => $content);
+
+ my @sidebars;
+ if (defined $config{active_sidebars} && length $config{active_sidebars}) { @sidebars = @{$config{active_sidebars}}; }
+ else { @sidebars = qw(sidebar); }
+
+ foreach my $sidebar (@sidebars) {
+ if ($template->query(name => $sidebar)) {
+ my $content=sidebar_content($page, $sidebar);
+ if (defined $content && length $content) {
+ $template->param($sidebar => $content);
+ }
}
}
}
</pre>
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