# Page Types -- one per page **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [March 29, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-types-one-per-page/90472 "2007-03-29T01:18:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/walterdavis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-types-one-per-page/90472/1 "2007-03-29T01:18:50Z")
I have been fooling around with the various extensions for Mental, and think they are an amazingly simple way to work. But there’s a problem with that simplicity. I tried out the Search extension, works great, lots of tags to use, etc. I made a Search page, everything works pretty well (it found my css page, which was odd – must figure out a way to exclude certain pages Real Soon Now). But then I want to put search on every page. No problem, I’ll put it in the header. Oops, can’t do that – you can’t add the extensions there. Managed to put it in the sidebar of the home page, that worked fine, but then on my Contact page (a Mailer page which did not define its own sidebar) the Home sidebar was inherited but without the Search functionality – so I got a broken tag warning. So then I have to define a new sidebar for that page without the search, because I can’t add Mailer and Search to the same page. Yikes! I’m confused. Walter ---
**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/walterdavis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-types-one-per-page/90472/2 "2007-03-29T01:31:51Z")
Walter Lee D. wrote: > but then on my Contact page (a Mailer page which did not define its own > sidebar) the Home sidebar was inherited but without the Search > functionality – so I got a broken tag warning. So then I have to > define a new sidebar for that page without the search, because I can’t > add Mailer and Search to the same page. Assign the Search page type to your search results page. Then, to use it on other pages, just use normal _HTML_ form tags: Search: – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/walterdavis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-types-one-per-page/90472/3 "2007-03-29T01:23:50Z")
These are both pretty old Behaviors, ported over to the new extension system. With the new system, it shouldn’t be too hard to make the tags usable across a site, though I haven’t investigated either of these extensions since they first came out as behaviors. I think John posted something to this effect about the mailer extension a day or two ago. Keith B. Tel: +49-7731-79838380 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://bitchkittyracing.com](http://bitchkittyracing.com) ---
**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/walterdavis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 3:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-types-one-per-page/90472/4 "2007-03-29T03:57:02Z")
Thanks, this is a very neat solution. Walter ---
**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/walterdavis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-types-one-per-page/90472/5 "2007-03-29T05:02:08Z")
Walter, When i ported the Search behavior, I thought about making a global tag for a block of code that would create a search form. But really in the end it was easier to write 4-5 lines of HTML than to write a bunch of Ruby – just as John demonstrated. Caveat emptor! Sean ---
**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/walterdavis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-types-one-per-page/90472/6 "2007-03-29T14:33:01Z")
So if I wanted to roll this up in a tag, say call it search:globalinput, how would I go about doing this? Is there a simple way to just roll up a bunch of literal HTML into a tag? And having done so, how would I register it as being completely global, such that I could use it in the header or footer? Walter ---
**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/walterdavis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-types-one-per-page/90472/7 "2007-03-29T05:06:09Z")
On Mar 28, 2007, at 7:31 PM, John W. Long wrote: > Interestingly, when I first came to Radiant, I didn’t even think about not using tags… ``` adam ``` ---
**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/walterdavis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-types-one-per-page/90472/8 "2007-03-29T15:01:07Z")
Hello all! Been a while since I’ve pestered you all, and I’ve been working on my site a lot. I did come up with an idea that would improve my life and likely many others. Right now, Radiant’s input is essentially a big text box and multiple parts/sections capable. Now, here is my thought; I tend to have some ‘common’ options throughout my site, and it’d be easier to do a radio button selection, or check boxes, or similar. Also, there are some common links I tend to use. Right now for some of it I use either the existence of certain tabs or data within certain tabs to support this. Here’s the thought For tabs, instead of allowing straight text, why not allow the building of ‘options’ pages. IE:- There’d be ‘body’, ‘extended’, and ‘options’, and options would be inherited from parent for ease of adding it, and it would be a list of options and variables. For example. I do reviews. I have three styles of reviews right now: Full (Normal) review, Quick overviews and Follow-Up reviews. I’d love to have a radio button set that I could set up that it’d change some of the underlying structure (Which is commong between them all) based on which is chosen. You could (I’m not) also be able to make a short text entry box for a rating ‘number’ that’d show up in a floating div to the side of the review, or a check-box to allow an image to show up ‘Me-Approved!’ On top of this, you could also eventually add image and file support including an uploader. This would be extremely handy if you have a common screenshot div that you’d like to just add quickly. Allow you to select from a server-side location for the file or an automatic uploader. Ideas or suggestions? I know I may be vague, but it was my brainstorm this morning on how to extend Radiant. Thanks! BladedThoth (Andrew K.) ---
**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/walterdavis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-types-one-per-page/90472/9 "2007-03-29T17:49:27Z")
module SearchTags include Radiant::Taggable tag “search” do |tag| tag.expand end tag “search:globalinput” do |tag| url = tag.attr[‘url’] %{ Search: } end end Page.class\_eval { include SearchTags } ---
**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/walterdavis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-types-one-per-page/90472/10 "2007-03-29T18:54:39Z")
No, that just makes all pages have the tag that emits the search form. You still have to specify the url of the actual SearchPage… I didn’t want to make any assumptions about that. Sean ---
**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/walterdavis)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-types-one-per-page/90472/11 "2007-03-29T18:50:37Z")
On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Sean C. wrote: > Page.class\_eval { include SearchTags } Cool! So I do this, and suddenly any Page can be a Search page? This is so amazing – like OO can suddenly flow uphill! Walter ---
**Author:** ![walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@walterdavis](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/walterdavis)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-types-one-per-page/90472/12 "2007-03-30T14:02:30Z")
Andrew, I suggest you check out: [http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/radiant-partatts/wiki](http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/radiant-partatts/wiki) This extension/hack of Radiant gives all your pages an “attributes” tab where you can add named strings, bools, links, and files… (and then reference them from r: tags) Andrew K. wrote: > Hello all! > > Been a while since I’ve pestered you all, and I’ve been working on my > site a lot. I did come up with an idea that would improve my life and > likely many others. Right now, Radiant’s input is essentially a big text > box and multiple parts/sections capable. Now, here is my thought; I tend > to have some ‘common’ options throughout my site, and it’d be easier to > do a radio button selection, or check boxes, or similar. Also, there > are some common links I tend to use. Right now for some of it I use > either the existence of certain tabs or data within certain tabs to > support this. Here’s the thought > > For tabs, instead of allowing straight text, why not allow the building > of ‘options’ pages. IE:- There’d be ‘body’, ‘extended’, and ‘options’, > and options would be inherited from parent for ease of adding it, and it > would be a list of options and variables. For example. I do reviews. I > have three styles of reviews right now: Full (Normal) review, Quick > overviews and Follow-Up reviews. I’d love to have a radio button set > that I could set up that it’d change some of the underlying structure > (Which is commong between them all) based on which is chosen. You could > (I’m not) also be able to make a short text entry box for a rating > ‘number’ that’d show up in a floating div to the side of the review, or > a check-box to allow an image to show up ‘Me-Approved!’ > > On top of this, you could also eventually add image and file support > including an uploader. This would be extremely handy if you have a > common screenshot div that you’d like to just add quickly. Allow you to > select from a server-side location for the file or an automatic > uploader. > > Ideas or suggestions? I know I may be vague, but it was my brainstorm > this morning on how to extend Radiant. > > Thanks! > BladedThoth > (Andrew K.)