Is it possible to have more than one "blog-start.html" file?

[PetersOtto]

Hello!

I am in the process of building an events page.
For this I have installed two blogs, as it is described in the post #108.

Now I want to create a separate blog-start.html for each blog.

I duplicate the blog-start.html and name one of it to news-start.html. The header of the page.md looks like this:

---
Title: news
Layout: news-start
LayoutNew: blog
---

But this does not work. What am I doing wrong?

[IngoBelka]

As far as I find in blog.php, the use of layout "blog-start" is hard coded there. So one have to make blog.php using a variable layout, or you need a copy of blog extension, which uses a different layout. If I'm understandig the source code well?!

[PetersOtto]

Hello Ingo,
it seems not as easy as I hoped :)

However, with Yellow there are often more than one solutions. I have been able to solve my problem with installing only one blog.

[PetersOtto]

This is how I solved the problem. Maybe it will help someone 😃
One blog, two layouts.

1. Fresh Yellow install with the little blog.

2. Create folder 3-news

3. Create page.md inside this folder with the following header:

---
Title: News
Layout: news-start
LayoutNew: news
---

4. Create page-new-news.md in the folder shared and insert the following:

---
Title: Newsseite
Published: @datetime
Author: @username
Layout: news
Cat: news
---

Dies ist eine neue Newsseite. 

5. Copy the layout file blog-start.html, rename it to news-start.html and replace

<?php $pages = $this->yellow->page->getPages("blog")->paginate($this->yellow->system->get("blogPaginationLimit")) ?>

to

<?php $pages = $this->yellow->content->index()->filter("cat", "news")->sort("published", false)->paginate(10) ?>

6. Copy the layout file blog.html and rename it to news.html.

7. Now you can style the news site different to the blog site.

[PetersOtto]

If you want to use filter pages for e.g. tag or author, then you have to insert some more code in the news-start.html.
It is about point 5. in the instructions above.

5. Copy the layout file blog-start.html, rename it to news-start.html and replace

<?php $pages = $this->yellow->page->getPages("blog")->paginate($this->yellow->system->get("blogPaginationLimit")) ?>

to

<?php $pages = $this->yellow->content->index()->filter("cat", "news")->sort("published", false)->paginate(10) ?>
<?php foreach ($pages as $page): ?>

<?php if ($page->isRequest("tag")): ?>
<?php $tag = $page->getRequestHtml("tag") ?>
<?php $pages = $this->yellow->content->index()->filter("cat", "news")->filter("tag", $tag)->sort("published", false)->paginate(10) ?>
<?php endif ?>

<?php if ($page->isRequest("author")): ?>
<?php $author = $page->getRequestHtml("author") ?>
<?php $pages = $this->yellow->content->index()->filter("cat", "news")->filter("author", $author)->sort("published", false)->paginate(10) ?>
<?php endif ?>
<?php endforeach ?>

Note: #933 (comment)

[annaesvensson]

No, this is currently not possible with the blog extension. The HTML output for the blog start page is generated by one layout file. If you want different HTML output on different blog start pages, you can add a page setting and handle the condition in your layout file. Here's an example page setting ShowCustomType:

---
Title: News
Layout: blog-start
LayoutNew: blog
ShowCustomType: 1
---

Change the following in your layout file system/layouts/blog-start.html:

<?php if ($this->yellow->page->get("showCustomType")): ?>
...
<?php else: ?>
...
<?php endif ?>

As an alternative use a different extension. See also #417.

[PetersOtto]

Thank you very much! I will try it out.

[IngoBelka]

@annaesvensson - This is a pretty cool solution, thank you for this suggestion!