Example template with tree menu
Here is an example of a page template, which has a navigational menu generated as a tree from folder structure.
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Location of template
A new module for a site
I create a new module for every web site. For example, let's say I am creating a site www.example.com.
First I create a new folder /sites/example, set its "Title" (it is displayed then in workplace as the name of the site), edit opencms-system.xml to addd mapping for it, restart tomcat.
Then I create the module. I go to Administration - Module management, click New module, fill Package name as com.example.site, check all checkboxes for creating folders.
Then I go to Module Resources and I add a new resource /sites/example so that the site pages are part of the module.
Template and resources location
The template then should be located in the /system/modules/com.example.site/templates/ folder.
The images, CSS and JavaScript files it uses shoudl be located in the /system/modules/com.example.site/resources/ folder. It is good to set the export property on that folder to true, so they are exported from database to a static file to improve speed.
Page title and index.html files
I was solving the problem of index.html and navigation in OpenCMS for years and here is my solution.
The problem is, that when you nave a folder with set navigation, it can have a Title and a NavText properties. But it should also contain a file index.html which can also have a Title and a NavText. These can be inconsistent with the setting of the folder.
My solution is , that I set Title and NavText on the folder, but I do not set Title and NavText on the index.html.
In the page template, I use
<title> <cms:property name="Title" file="search" escapeHtml="true" /></title>
The file="search" causes that the title of the index.html file be inherited from the parent folder, so it cannot be incosistent.
Template structure
A basic page template then may look like this:
<%@page buffer="none" session="false" %> <%@ taglib prefix="cms" uri="http://www.opencms.org/taglib/cms" %> <cms:template element="head"> <html> <head> <title><cms:property name="Title" file="search" escapeHtml="true"/></title> <cms:editable/> </head> <body> <h1><cms:property name="Title" file="search" escapeHtml="true"/></h1> </cms:template> <cms:template element="body"> <cms:include element="body" editable="true"/> </cms:template> <cms:template element="foot"> </body> </html> </cms:template>
This page has no menu, but it does have a header, a footer, a body with a h1 heading matching the page title, and an area for body content.
