Creating single template practice

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miomir.dancevic Reply #1, 8 years, 4 months ago

I have started working on some website, but to go in way to use only one template for every page.
Practice is like this

<body class="page  page-template-default header_2 fixed_slider">
    <!-- Header -->
    [[$_Header]]
    <!-- End Header -->
    <div class="top_wrapper">
    [[!If?
       &subject=`[[*id]]`
       &operator=`EQ`
       &operand=`1`
       &then=`[[$_HomeCarousel]]`
       &else=`[[$_PageHeader]]`
    ]]
        <section id="content" class="page-dynamic_template-home sequentialchildren container ">
         [[!If?
           &subject=`[[*id]]`
           &operator=`EQ`
           &operand=`1`
           &then=`[[$_HomeCarouselText]]`
        ]]
</section>
</div>
</body>

Is this good practice to development or maybe to create another template?

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 8 years, 4 months ago

I would create a Chunk, which holds the template-code for all different templates
named 'baseTemplate'

<body class="page  page-template-default header_2 fixed_slider">
    <!-- Header -->
    [[$_Header]]
    <!-- End Header -->
    <div class="top_wrapper">
    [[$[[+pageHeader]]]]
    <section id="content" class="page-dynamic_template-home sequentialchildren container ">
       [[$[[+contentChunk]]]]
    </section>
</div>
</body>

Then have different Templates like that:

[[$baseTemplate?
&pageHeader=`_HomeCarusel`
&contentChunk=`_HomeCarouselText`
]]

[[$baseTemplate?
&pageHeader=`_PageHeader`
&contentChunk=``
]]

Better to have different Templates, than using many if-statements.

If you still want to use IF-statements, call them cached and make sure the code inside isn't processed, if not necessary, so it would look like that.

    [[[[If?
       &subject=`[[*id]]`
       &operator=`EQ`
       &operand=`1`
       &then=`$_HomeCarousel`
       &else=`$_PageHeader`
    ]]]]

See also
http://modx.com/blog/2012/09/14/tags-as-the-result-or-how-conditionals-are-like-mosquitoes/

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