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Own template with mobile Joomla 12 years, 6 months ago #5996

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Hi, i have a question regarding templates with Mobile Joomla, i have created a template and want to use it with mobile devices, but i can't get i to work correctly, with the menus, i have created a second menu i Joomla administration module, and i have then linked the module to that specific menu, but when i see the page on my mobile, it comes with all the menu items that i have in my main menu, is there something i need to change in my template to make it work, because when i use the built in pda_mobile template, it works fine......hope someone can point me in the right direction.

Re: Own template with mobile Joomla 12 years, 6 months ago #5998

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What menu module do you use?
In the case of using Mobile Menu (mod_mj_menu) module you can either to set items to hide, or choose corresponding menu to display.

Re: Own template with mobile Joomla 12 years, 6 months ago #6000

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I have tried severel menus, but when i use the mobile menu, i correspond to the "mj_pda_header2", and i don't have that posistion in my template, can i change that position to my own in mobile admin module? to ex. mobile_user3?, or do i need to alter my template to match all the names in pda_mobile template.

Re: Own template with mobile Joomla 12 years, 6 months ago #6005

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MJ templates have no fixed position names. Instead, they get names from MJ settings. You can use similar way in your template, i.e.:
<?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
defined('_MJ') or die('Incorrect usage of Mobile Joomla.');
$MobileJoomla =& MobileJoomla::getInstance();
//......................//
$modulepos = $MobileJoomla->getPosition('header');
if($modulepos && $this->countModules($modulepos) > 0)
$MobileJoomla->loadModules($modulepos);
Last Edit: 12 years, 6 months ago by dryabov.

Re: Own template with mobile Joomla 12 years, 6 months ago #6014

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Hi Dryabov, Thanks for your reply, but just so that i understand this correct, i can take the script you wrote, and put it in my own template?, my template is created with artiseer, just so you know. But the thing that confuse me a little, is that i have to choose a position in the module, and i also need to make a position selection in the mobilejoomla setting, etc. mj_pda_header2, and that isn't logical to me, but maybe i am a little slow.....Hope you can clear this out for me.

Re: Own template with mobile Joomla 12 years, 6 months ago #6018

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Actually, you can use "standard" positions with fixed names, but in this case you cannot use MJ feature to change position names in MJ settings.

And as far as I remember, Artiseer creates fixed-width templates, but different mobile phones have different screen sizes (and some of phones can work in both vertical and horizontal orientations).

Re: Own template with mobile Joomla 12 years, 6 months ago #6020

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Okay, i'm a totally noob here now, could you guide me in how i use standard positions with fixed names?, i know t.ex that the menu i would like to see is called user3 in the template, and i have read that i can use a global suffix for the module, but i don't know how to use it correctly.

Re: Own template with mobile Joomla 12 years, 6 months ago #6022

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kic wrote:
Okay, i'm a totally noob here now, could you guide me in how i use standard positions with fixed names?, i know t.ex that the menu i would like to see is called user3 in the template, and i have read that i can use a global suffix for the module, but i don't know how to use it correctly.


The standard Joomla way to insert module position is to use jdoc tag:
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="user3" />

Note that in this way the position name cannot be changed without modifying of the template.

Core MJ templates use more complicated way: they get position names from MJ settings and insert jdoc tag dynamically by call to $MobileJoomla->loadModules. But this fact doesn't mean that MJ cannot use templates with "fixed" position names. So, you can use any way.
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Re: Own template with mobile Joomla 12 years, 6 months ago #6023

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Hi Dryabov, i will give it a try.....thanks alot for your help, and sorry for all the questions, but i am new to joomla, and also new to mobile joomla, but hopefully, i will learn along the way.
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