Brand new to LemonStand, and it's my front-runner for developing a client's web site.
This first candidate for utilizing LemonStand is a newly built web site I built in PHP.
I've got all of the non-e-commerce pages (things like about and contact) pulling from the LemonStand CMS.
But now I am trying to convert what were simple PHP includes to partials:.
Example:
<? include 'standard_include.php'; ?>
<? include 'header.php'; ?>
to LemonStand's
<? $this->render_partial('standard_include') ?>
<? $this->render_partial('header') ?>
I get an unhandled exception related to undefined variables:
This is what the beginning my page/template looks like
<?php
require_once('lib/php/configuration.php');
$pagetype = 'home';
$subpagetype = 'index';
$titleValue = 'Client Name';
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title><?php echo $titleValue ?></title>
<? $this->render_partial('standard_include') ?>
</head>
<body>
<? $this->render_partial('header') ?>
Do the partials not render till later in the page load process (as compared to PHP includes)?
Am I utilizing partials incorrectly? If so, what do I do to put the PHP includes into the LemonStand backdoor system?
I'm thinking the render_partial is happening after the pages start rendering, while the include happens prior, so it has a value for pagetype.
I'm thinking the solution is going to be to keep them includes. I just won't be able to have every file in their admin/backend system.
For common elements, the included templates with LemonStand don't seem to do anything but have them inline, which obviously isn't optimal for making a change across a site for something like a header or footer.
I've never used Lemonstand, but if its MVC works like other MVC systems, then you need to inject the variables needed by standard_include into the view. Something like:
$this->renderPartial('standard_include', array('pagetype'=>$pagetype, ...)) ?>
Otherwise the partial won't have access to the variables you defined in your parent template because the partial is rendered in a different context.
PHP include works differently. It just literally inserts the included file in place at that point before the script is executed.