Views in advanced module

aho1101

Hi, here is my case:
I wanna build a tiny site including a blog page and few other pages,
and I found that the official Blog module is perfect to use.
However, it has its own views, the default theme with many blocks and layout,
while I wanna use one layout design applied to all pages of my site,
and I've finished it in application/views/_layout and blocks like header footer.
Is it possible to use this layout instead of module own views?
Sorry for my poor eng, thx.

admin

One way to do that would be in the blog modules views/themes/default/_layouts/blog.php to remove what is in that file and use the following:
$this->load->module_view('app', '_layouts/main.php'); Where the "main.php" is the layout found in fuel/application/views/_layouts/main.php.

aho1101

Thx, this works.
Would u let me know how it works? I search the module_view and no any result.

Also, is it workable to modify $config['blog']['theme_path'] inside config\blog.php or something similar to achieve same purpose?

Blog is a module which can be accessed it as a page, but other modules can't, e.g. if i go localhost/fuel/validate, i'll be redirected to admin page, what's the difference between Blog and other?

aho1101

And moreover, I wanna load the blog detail page using AJAX, may be appending the detail content to description without refresh, would you give me some suggestion?
Thx again.

admin

The module_view method is something that FUEL has added to the HMVC Module library we are using. There is also a load->module_library, load->module_config, load->module_helper, load->module_model. The difference being that the first parameter is the name of the module to load it from ("app" can be used for the "application" folder).

There is a "theme_module" parameter you can set in that file to have it pull from a different module (e.g. "app" for the app folder).

With regards to using ajax to load the content, I suppose you could use the jQuery load ajax function and load it as a page fragment (this page talks about it http://api.jquery.com/load/).

aho1101

I got it, now it's success to use ajax, and I just added these lines in Blog_base_controller to prevent loading any layout if page is called by ajax:

$this->load->helper('ajax');
if (!is_ajax()) $output = $this->load->module_view($this->fuel_blog->settings('theme_module'), $view, $vars, TRUE);
else $output = $vars['body'];

Is this a bad way to work? Any better approach? Thx.

admin

I think that's as good a way as any.