Help needed in customizing the OCS site.

[dinesh]

hello,

Please let me know how i can do the following.

1. I run a single conference, only one instance. So when i type the conference web site address, it must go to the scheduled conference only. How to do that? Or, alternately, how can I eliminate the "current conference" link and text in the body?

2. How do I insert/delete my own links in (i). Conference Information section
(ii). Header navigation (iii) sidebar navigation.

Please help ASAP. this is urgent.

thanks and regards

[asmecher]

Hi Dinesh,

1. You'll have to modify the code slightly in order to redirect to a particular scheduled conference. I'd suggest editing the "index" function in pages/conference/ConferenceHandler.inc.php with something like:

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Request::redirect(null, 'scheduledConferencePathGoesHere', 'index');

2. Header navigation links can be added in:
(i) templates/schedConf/index.tpl
(ii) templates/common/header.tpl
(iii) templates/common/sidebar.tpl

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team
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Don't miss the First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
July 11 - 13, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/

[dinesh]

Dear Alec,

Thanks a lot for the help. I do not know PHP, but I could some how dig into those codes with your lead. The first one worked, the next ones i am trying to figure out how to add new links.
I believe we can link to some static html page also.


Thanks a lot, you people are doing a great work.

regards

Dinesh

[asmecher]

Hi Dinesh,

The template files are more or less HTML, except that they have Smarty code embedded using the { and } symbols. For example, if you look at templates/common/header.tpl, you'll see the nav bar:

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<div id="navbar">
        <ul class="menu">
                <li><a href="{url page="index"}">{translate key="navigation.home"}</a></li>
                <li><a href="{url page="about"}">{translate key="navigation.about"}</a></li>
                {if $isUserLoggedIn}
                        <li><a href="{url page="admin"}">{translate key="navigation.administration"}</a></li>
                {/if}
                <li><a href="{url page="search"}">{translate key="navigation.search"}</a></li>
                (...etc...)

Where you see {translate key="something"}, it means that OCS will need to get the piece of text called "something" from the locale file. The main locale file is locale/en_US/locale.xml. This is done to support other languages once translations become available. You don't need to use the translation calls or URL function -- you can just insert a line between the <ul class="menu"> and closing </ul>, something like:

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                <li><a href="http://my-site-url.com/some/path/doc.html">This is a custom link</a></li>

You shouldn't have to do anything more than just modify the template file and reload the page in your browser; if nothing changes, you might need to check file permissions in your cache directory to make sure the web server can modify files there.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team
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Don't miss the First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
July 11 - 13, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada
http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007/