Re: [typo] Theme overrides

[Kevin Ballard]

Oh, you actually want to modify the sidebars, not change the theme. I think that would require a bit of invasive code, changing lots of stuff in the Typo internals. Perhaps instead of replacing all the old stuff you'd simply like to add the metadata? You could do this by writing your own sidebar component that uses the request_params hash parameter to determine what page is being viewed, and display the metadata if you're viewing an individual article but display nothing otherwise. This would also not be a theme change but a main typo source change.

On Mar 16, 2006, at 2:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Any thoughts on how I could accomplish this then? Being new to Ruby and Rails I'm struggling to determine what my options are.

Does this make sense? How should I go about starting this?

Basically what I'm trying to do is swap out my right column depending on where you are in the site. If you are on an article list page I want the right column to have links to other categories, search, etc but once you drill in to an article I want to have that all go away and to display what is essentially meta data about the article (ie: title, posted by, tags, categories, comments, trackbacks, etc). Is this something that I could do somehow with a controller action that determine which view to return? I could then create partial views that include the necessary logic. Is there another way? A better way? I'm open to options. Trying to learn here so I apologize for all the questions.

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