Here’s the step by step guide to create a new functionality page in iLister.
Let’s say we wanted to create a new small enquiry form at the http://www.yoursite.com/contact_us. For this to make happen we will create a new ContactUs handler to process the form values and will place it under miscellaneous. Following are the steps required.
- Go to apps/frontEnd/modules/miscellaneous and open config.php
- Add a new handler function to the list. In this example we add
, 'contact_us' => array ( 'display_name' => 'Contact Us Page', 'class' => 'ContactUsHandler', 'raw_output' => true, ),
- Now goto apps/frontEnd/scripts/miscellaneous and create a new php file named ContactUsHandler.php in it.
- Place the following code in it. You will have to modify it according to your needs.
class ContactUsHandler extends ContentHandlerBase { public function respond() { //execut you form values here, access database or do anything you would do inside any handles of your iLister. You have access to main iLister object $this->appContext here. Also you could render the template file here } } - As a last step goto your admin section and tell your system to access the correct Handler on a http://www.yoursite.com/contact_us call in browser’s address bar. Go to Site Layout > Site Pages (/admin/site_pages/ currently) and click Add New Site Page. In the New Page form add
/contact_us/for URI selectmiscellaneousfor Module andcontact_usfor the Function field (it should be there once you add them correctly above in config.php). - Create a new template file contact_us.tpl in apps/frontEnd/templates/ActiveTemplateFolderName/miscellaneous. You will place your enquiry form in this template file. Set your form action to
http://www.yoursite.com/contact_us.
That’s all about creating a new functionality page in iLister classifieds. I will post some more information on iLister functionality later.
