SAC:Setup OCS Custom Additions

For capturing some notes about trying to create a custom new set of forms for use in OCS Open Conference System. These tests are done on me local PC but will be merged into OSGeo code if/when ready.

These improvements attempt to address some of the system needs discussed in FOSS4G2008 Committee Issues

This is also a journal chronicling the adaptations.

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Cloning a Core Class and Templates
To keep it as simple as possible I will take the existing Accommodations functions, make a copy and modify them from there. (At time of writing this was only available in CVS for upcoming OCS 2.2 release) My new functions will be for presenting a link to Transportation items alongside Accommodations in the Conference Information section of the site (both publicly and for managers to update).

cd OCSROOT/classes/manager/form cp AccommodationSettingsForm.inc.php TransportationSettingsForm.inc.php

Replace all references to Accommodations and accommodations with Transportation:

sed -i .bak 's/Accommodation/Transportation/g' TransportationSettingsForm.inc.php sed -i .bak 's/accommodation/transportation/g' TransportationSettingsForm.inc.php

cd OCSROOT/pages/manager cp ManagerAccommodationHandler.inc.php ManagerTransportationHandler.inc.php sed -i .bak 's/Accommodation/Transportation/g' ManagerTransportationHandler.inc.php sed -i .bak 's/accommodation/transportation/g' ManagerTransportationHandler.inc.php

cd OCSROOT/templates/manager cp accommodationSettings.tpl transportationSettings.tpl sed -i .bak 's/Accommodation/Transportation/g' transportationSettings.tpl sed -i .bak 's/accommodation/transportation/g' transportationSettings.tpl

cd OCSROOT/templates/schedConf cp accommodation.tpl transportation.tpl sed -i .bak 's/Accommodation/Transportation/g' transportation.tpl sed -i .bak 's/accommodation/transportation/g' transportation.tpl

Update locale.xml file to populate UI: locale/en_US/locale.xml: Accommodation {$schedConfAbbrev} Accommodation --- Whole section Accommodation

Update ManagerHandler so options appear: pages/manager/ManagerHandler.inc.php: //       // Accommodation //       ... entire section (2 functions) ADDED: //             // Transportation //       function transportation { import('pages.manager.ManagerTransportationHandler'); ManagerTransportationHandler::transportation; }              function saveTransportationSettings { import('pages.manager.ManagerTransportationHandler'); ManagerTransportationHandler::saveTransportationSettings; }

Add section to: /pages/schedConf/SchedConfHandler.inc.php: /**        * Display conference transportation page */       function transportation { list($conference, $schedConf) = SchedConfHandler::validate(true, true);

$templateMgr = &TemplateManager::getManager; $templateMgr->assign('pageHierarchy', array( array(Request::url(null, 'index', 'index'), $conference->getConferenceTitle, true), array(Request::url(null, null, 'index'), $schedConf->getSchedConfTitle, true))); SchedConfHandler::setupSchedConfTemplate($conference,$schedConf); $templateMgr->assign('transportationDescription', $schedConf->getLocalizedSetting('transportationDescription')); $templateMgr->assign('transportationFiles', $schedConf->getLocalizedSetting('transportationFiles'));

$templateMgr->assign('helpTopicId', 'schedConf.transportation'); $templateMgr->display('schedConf/transportation.tpl'); }

Finally, add it so that the new Transportation link shows up on the main manager page, by copying the accommodation line and modifying it: templates/manager/index.tpl: &#187; getPath page="manager" op="accommodation"}">{translate key="manager.accommodation"} &#187; getPath page="manager" op="transportation"}">{translate key="manager.transportation"}

Okay, so there is still one more step, do similar to above, but so this shows up on the public page too. I just threw in a dash between accommodation and transportation links since they are related: /templates/schedConf/index.tpl: &#187; {translate key="schedConf.accommodation"} – {translate key="schedConf.transportation"}</li>

Cloning and Customising a Simple Block for the sidebar
Blocks are the sections often used in the sidebar menus - i.e. showing you login information or a navigation menu or search box. In this learning exercise I will clone an existing simple block (plugins/blocks/developedBy) and make one that shows the latest announcement. I expect to find that I'll have to look at a different more complex example to learn how to get the data from the db... we'll see ... underway...