[For 1.6] Advanced Sidebox 2.1.1

[Dannymh]

It may be easier and better but in reality pagemanager should use a template anyway. Ill have a look soon

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Right I modified pagemanager to use a template, which is the first part.

So no once that is done we just need to allow advanced sideboxes to globally edit any template rather than a selective few.

So it still won't work with pagemanager with the above edits...yet, though I have a possible "hacky" solution

Once you have the ability to easily add this to any template or page this should be pretty easy to allow people to use with pagemanager.

ill get my content system out soon when I do, perhaps we can collaborate in using ADV sideboxes as the sidebox plugin.

The way I am handing it in my code is to hook into pre_page output

$plugins->add_hook("pre_output_page", "brookie_cms_blocks_output");

I then feed &$page into it by ref and manipulate the output by replacing a tag I had placed into the template, this way it can be put into any template you like easily. My only concern is overheads.

Essentially in your template you put

[ba]block_area_name[/ba]

The block areas are user definable so you can have as many as you want and you

This allows me to do the following

//build an array of blocks in the template
preg_match_all("/\[ba\](.*?)\[\/ba\]/is", $page, $matches);

foreach($matches[1] as $match)	{
   //query DB for blocks in block_area
   //loop through results
   // file_get_contents("the php block file");
    
}

That is all pseudo code of course, I don't want to release it before it is finished. This then allows people to develop blocks plop them in a "cms/blocks" folder and then include them wherever they want on any template.

The block areas then allows them to define specific blocks to sit within specific block areas meaning you can have different pages with different blocks.

If you are interested I will be happy to show you what I have so far and see if you can maybe improve it then we can work on an integration into the upcoming brookie cms.

ultimately cURL is faster than file_get_contents and will be the eventual way to go here, but for now this is working, there are probably better ways to handle this, like evaluating and using a template, however I wrote this late last year when I was going through a hard time mentally and emotionally so I kind of go the proof of concept working then dropped all other work on it