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@ -21,49 +21,61 @@ the sidebar of your website. To check out a what a [Widget](http://silverstripe.
packaging instructions at the bottom of the page about how to make your widget package.
### Installing the Widgets Module
Download and unzip the [Widgets Module](http://www.silverstripe.org/widgets-module/) to the main folder of your website and ensure the folder is named `widgets`.
### Installing a widget
By following the "Packaging" rules below, widgets are easily installed.
By following the "Packaging" rules below, widgets are easily installed. This example uses the Blog module which by default has widgets already enabled.
* Install the [blog module](http://www.silverstripe.org/blog-module/) (by default only the Blog has widgets enabled)
* Download the file and unzip to the main folder of your SilverStripe website, e.g. to `/widget_<widget-name>/`. The folder
* Install the [blog module](http://www.silverstripe.org/blog-module/).
* Download the widget and unzip to the main folder of your SilverStripe website, e.g. to `/widget_<widget-name>/`. The folder
will contain a few files, which generally won't need editing or reading.
* Run `http://my-website.com/dev/build`
* Login to the CMS and go to the 'Blog' page. Choose the "widgets" tab and drag n drop the new widget to activate it.
* Login to the CMS and go to the 'Blog' page. Choose the "widgets" tab and click the new widget to activate it.
* Your blog will now have the widget shown
### Adding widgets to other pages
You have to do a couple things to get a Widget to work on a page.
First step is to add an WidgetArea to the Database to store the widget details. Then you have to edit the CMS to add a
Widget Form to manage the widgets. An example of this is below
* Install the Widgets Module, see above.
* Add a WidgetArea field to your Page.
* Add a new tab to the CMS with a WidgetAreaEditor field for managing the widgets.
e.g.
**mysite/code/Page.php**
class Page extends SiteTree {
...
static $has_one = array(
"Sidebar" => "WidgetArea",
"MyWidgetArea" => "WidgetArea",
);
public function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Widgets", new WidgetAreaEditor("Sidebar"));
$fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Widgets", new WidgetAreaEditor("MyWidgetArea"));
return $fields;
}
....
...
}
Then in your Template you need to call $SideBar wherever you want to render the widget
* Then in your Template you need to call $MyWidgetArea wherever you want to render the widget
For example: using the blackcandy theme I put this piece of code above the closing `</div>`
e.g. using the simple theme, add the `$MyWidgetArea` variable above the closing `</aside>`
**themes/blackcandy/templates/Includes/Sidebar.ss**
**themes/simple/templates/Includes/Sidebar.ss**
$Sidebar
<aside>
<% if Menu(2) %>
...
<% end_if %>
$MyWidgetArea
</aside>
## Writing your own widgets
@ -272,13 +284,13 @@ Page class). One way to fix this is to comment out line 30 in BlogHolder.php and
........
static $has_one = array(
// "SideBar" => "WidgetArea", COMMENT OUT
// "Sidebar" => "WidgetArea", COMMENT OUT
'Newsletter' => 'NewsletterType'
.......
public function getCMSFields() {
$fields = parent::getCMSFields();
$fields->removeFieldFromTab("Root.Content","Content");
// $fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Content.Widgets", new WidgetAreaEditor("SideBar")); COMMENT OUT
// $fields->addFieldToTab("Root.Widgets", new WidgetAreaEditor("Sidebar")); COMMENT OUT
........