Re: question about layouts

Saturday, January 8, 2011, 7:00:16 AM, Takács János wrote:

> Hi
>
> I created layouts based on this article:
> http://wendefer.blogspot.com/2007/09/handy-tip-for-layouts-in-freemarker.html
>
>>From my web application, I have to serve a basic layout (with menus,
> header, footer, etc.), and a plain layout (plain html, with some basic
> javascript includes).
> The user can visit the webpage, in this case he gets the basic layout,
> or he can access some pages trough a .NET application, in wich case
> the app just loads Internet Explorer in a frame, and passes a GET
> parameter to the page url.
> In the spring mvc controller class, I have to decide the layout, based
> on this GET param.
> So what I did is this: I created multiple templates, page1.ftl,
> page1_basic.ftl, and page1_plain.ftl
>
> page1_basic.ftl contains only this:
> <@layout.basic>
> <#include "page1.ftl" />
> </@layout.basic>
>
> and page1_plain.ftl is this:
> <@layout.plain>
> <#include "page1.ftl" />
> </@layout.plain>
>
> And in the spring class, I pass the name of the view according to the
> GET parameter.  This way I have to create 3 files for every page.
> My question is, is there a simpler way to do this?

For example, you could have a single template like this:

  <@layout[layoutName]>
    <#include pageName + ".ftl">
  </@>

then just call this templates with layoutName and pageName in the
data-model set based on that HTTP request parameter.

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany


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