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- hananils
- 17 Jan 12, 11:50 pm
- Comment #1

A new extension, "Site Preferences" is now available for download. Comments and feedback can be left here but if you discover any issues, please post it on the issue tracker.

- hananils
- 17 Jan 12, 11:51 pm
- Comment #2

Site preferences offer a way to manage custom front-end settings in the backend. You define all settings in a separate configuration file inside your workspace, preferences.site.php. This way all preferences can be tracked with Git in case you share your workspace with co-workers.

Site preferences allow the creation of multiple fieldsets shown on the preference page in the backend. Each fieldset can contain multiple instances of the following field types:

input fields,
text areas,
select boxes,
checkboxes and
help texts

The extension will return all settings as parameters on the front-end.

Default Configuration:

<?php
    $settings = array(

        ###### FIELDSET: SITE PREFERENCES ######
        array(
            'name' => 'Site Preferences',
            'fields' => array(
                array(
                    'name' => 'textarea',
                    'label' => 'This is a textarea',
                    'type' => 'textarea',
                    'value' => '',
                ),
                array(
                    'name' => 'input',
                    'label' => 'This is an input field',
                    'type' => 'input',
                    'value' => '',
                ),
                array(
                    'name' => 'selectbox',
                    'label' => 'Select something',
                    'type' => 'select',
                    'values' => 'this, is, a, selection, list',
                    'value' => '',
                ),
            )
        ),
        ########

        ###### FIELDSET: MORE PREFERENCES ######
        array(
            'name' => 'More preferences',
            'fields' => array(
                array(
                    'type' => 'help',
                    'value' => 'This is just another group of settings added to the preference page. You can edit all fields and fieldset in the &lt;code&gt;preferences.site.php&lt;/code&gt; file inside your &lt;code&gt;workspace&lt;/code&gt;.',
                ),
                array(
                    'name' => 'checkbox',
                    'label' => 'Yes, I've read that!',
                    'type' => 'checkbox',
                    'value' => 'checked',
                ),
            )
        ),
        ########
    );

Example Parameter output

$sp-site-preferences-textarea
$sp-site-preferences-input
$sp-site-preferences-selectbox
$sp-more-preferences-checkbox

<params>
    <sp-site-preferences-textarea />
    <sp-site-preferences-input />
    <sp-site-preferences-selectbox />
    <sp-more-preferences-checkbox>Yes</sp-more-preferences-checkbox>
</params>

- hananils
- 18 Jan 12, 12:02 am
- Comment #3

Site Preferences updated to version 1.0.1 on 17th of January 2012

- bauhouse
- 18 Jan 12, 1:05 am
- Comment #4

Thanks, hana+nils. This looks like it will be very useful.

Just a quick note: For the Repository URL on the Site Preferences extension page, I think it would be better to have the URL to the GitHub page than the git clone URL.

- Nils
- 18 Jan 12, 1:13 am
- Comment #5

Thanks, Stephen. I just changed the URL.

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