Admin-Editable Sidebox - Support Thread

[kuroi]

I want to use this your mod to create sideboxes that pull in WordPress content.
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Is this the right way to execute this?? or would I add this code elsewhere in your module??

Apologies DivaVocals - only just seen your question. Old joke I know ... but if I was doing this I wouldn't start from here! I'd start from the blank sidebox, which was specifically designed to make it easier to add your own content to a sidebox skeleteon. This mod is an extension to blank sidebox to put in place extra code to allow content to be added from the Admin, which for your purposes is unwanted baggage. No matter though, it should work anyway.

The way that you have done this should work, but doesn't really respect the separation between preparing data and displayiong it that is fairly well observed in Zen Cart's sideboxes. They normally load up the content into a variable called (I think) $content in a module, which is then echoed to the browser output in the sidebox template.

That said, if what you've done is working for you, I wouldn't spend time reworking it. I won't tell

[DivaVocals]

Apologies DivaVocals - only just seen your question. Old joke I know ... but if I was doing this I wouldn't start from here! I'd start from the blank sidebox, which was specifically designed to make it easier to add your own content to a sidebox skeleteon. This mod is an extension to blank sidebox to put in place extra code to allow content to be added from the Admin, which for your purposes is unwanted baggage. No matter though, it should work anyway.

The way that you have done this should work, but doesn't really respect the separation between preparing data and displayiong it that is fairly well observed in Zen Cart's sideboxes. They normally load up the content into a variable called (I think) $content in a module, which is then echoed to the browser output in the sidebox template.

That said, if what you've done is working for you, I wouldn't spend time reworking it. I won't tell

I appreciate the response.. and you sir are right.. I ended up (with the help of a friend who's MUCH techier than I) doing exactly what you suggest.. So now I have 6 sideboxes which pull in WordPress content independent of any WordPress embedding solution I may use.. (In this case I will be using Numinix's WordPress embedding solution)

[pdxdoug]

DivaVocals,

Would you mind sharing your solution?
I know there are many of us that would love to have WordPress in a sidebox.

Thanks!

[DivaVocals]

DivaVocals,

Would you mind sharing your solution?
I know there are many of us that would love to have WordPress in a sidebox.

Thanks!

I sent you a PM..