Vanilla variables used in Custom Page

evolucja

This discussion is related to the Custom Pages addon.

Can I use Vanilla variables in Custom Pages? For example I want to make pages avaiable only for some users or something like "Hello, $username" or "You've got a nice avatar: [AVATAR IMG], $username".

sahotataran

yes you can use all variables, Classes, Functions from vanilla in custom pages.

sahotataran

$Session = Gdn::Session();
if ($Session->IsValid()) {
$userid = $Session->UserID;
$Name = $Session->User->Name; }

above can be used to check if session is valid i.e user is logged in. then u can get his username and userid. then using userid u can check for function in UserModel to get the userdetails from ID or USERNAME. i suppose that you are familiar with programming and u can go through the code to find out what details u want - i have given u userid and username.

i tried $this->AddModule('CategoriesModule'); but it doesnot seem to work on mine. u can try on your install if it works for u

evolucja

Well.. so how can I use them? I made a Custom Page with

var_dump(get_defined_vars());

and I don't see there any user or other useful data..

sahotataran

i created a page demo.php in custom pages plugin and put

<?php if (!defined('APPLICATION')) exit();
$this->Head->Title('Demo title for using Custom Page Plugin!');
$DiscussionModel = new DiscussionModel();
$DiscussionData = $DiscussionModel->Get(0, 10);
var_dump($DiscussionData );
 ?>

which set the title of page as Set above and printed out the first 10 discussions.

what kind of data you want to print? - you will have to look for variable in core and echo it out or var_dump();

evolucja

is there any list of all variables I can view and set in Custom Pages? Especially I want to know if user is logged, his username and avatar image.

Can I make queries in Custom Page? Can I set a default sidebar? Can I set content of own sidebar? If yes, can anyone tell me how? :)