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  1. dilby
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Hi all - I'm looking for the best way to add custom settings options to the T3 template manager that is upgrade-proof.

For example, under the 'theme' option you can edit the site name, the logo, the slogan etc. I can hardcode some more options in here, but how upgrade friendly is it?
Is there a better way to do it that straight hardcoding? Any examples of people doing it before?

Thanks!
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Gardner Luna
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Hi

1. Please open the template xml file - templateDetails.xml then add the parameters. Here is a sample (in JA Playmag template):

<config>

		<fields name="params" addfieldpath="/plugins/system/t3/includes/depend">



			<!-- Sample for add or disable template parameters -->

			<!--fieldset name="menu_params" label="T3_PARAMS_MEGAMENU">

				<field name="group_disable" type="t3depend" function="@group">

					<option for="menu_as_bg" value="no">menu_as_bg</option>

				</field>

			</fieldset-->

            <fieldset name="template_params" label="TPL_PARAMS_TEMPLATES_CONFIG" description="TPL_PARAMS_TEMPLATES_CONFIG_DESC">

				<field type="t3depend" function="@legend" label="T3_FEATURE_LAYOUT_CONFIG"

						 description="T3_FEATURE_LAYOUT_CONFIG_DESC"/>

				<field

                    name="feature_layout"

                    type="list"

                    global="1"

                    multiple="true"

                    label="TPL_FEATURE_LAYOUT"

                    description="TPL_FEATURE_LAYOUT_DESC">

                    <option value="grid">TPLJGRID</option>

                    <option value="small-list">TPLJSMALLLIST</option>

                    <option value="big-list">TPLJBIGLIST</option>

				</field>

				<field

                    name="feature_layout_first"

                    type="list"

                    global="1"

                    label="TPL_FEATURE_LAYOUT_FIRST"

                    description="TPL_FEATURE_LAYOUT_FIRST_DES">

                    <option value="grid">TPLJGRID</option>

                    <option value="small-list">TPLJSMALLLIST</option>

                    <option value="big-list">TPLJBIGLIST</option>

				</field>

				<field type="t3depend" function="@legend" label="T3_BACKGROUND_CONFIG"

						 description="T3_BACKGROUND_CONFIG_DESC"/>

				<field name="background1" type="t3media" default=""

						 label="T3_BACKGROUND_IMAGES_1"

						 description="T3_BACKGROUND_IMAGES_1_DESC"/>

				<field name="background2" type="t3media" default=""

										 label="T3_BACKGROUND_IMAGES_2"

										 description="T3_BACKGROUND_IMAGES_2_DESC"/>

				<field name="background3" type="t3media" default=""

										 label="T3_BACKGROUND_IMAGES_3"

										 description="T3_BACKGROUND_IMAGES_3_DESC"/>						 

			</fieldset>

			

		</fields>

	</config>


2. Call the params

You can call it for template or module, it's up to you. For example, I will add to the file: templates/ja_playmag/tpls/default.php

$tplParams = JFactory::getApplication()->getTemplate(true)->params;

$background = array();



$background1 = $tplParams->get('background1','');

if($background1) array_push($background,$background1);



$background2 = $tplParams->get('background2','');

if($background2) array_push($background,$background2);



$background3 = $tplParams->get('background3','');

if($background3) array_push($background,$background3);



Please check attached image to see how the params are added to the template manager.

Gardner
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Thanks so much for your reply, that's made perfect sense so far.

Please forgive my ignorance, but you gotta start somewhere and I'm learning slowly!

I'd like to add a very simple few fields - for example, a twitter icon that has a dynamic link that's set in the parameters.

So for the templatedetails.xml I've added:

<field name="Twitter" type="text" default="" label="Twitter" description="Twitter"/>


But I'm not quite sure what to add to the default.php template file for this.

I'd like to them add it to the design of the template using something like:

<a href="/<?php echo $TwitterURL ?>"><i class="fa fa-twitter-square"></i></a>


But in the logic of the php make this only appear if the field is filled in.

Does this make sense? Hope so and thanks so much for your help!
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Hi Dilby,

Please try to add the code
<?php 

$tplParams = JFactory::getApplication()->getTemplate(true)->params;

$TwitterURL = $tplParams->get('Twitter','');

?>


Before the code:
<a href="/<?php echo $TwitterURL ?>"><i class="fa fa-twitter-square"></i></a>


Hope it helps.

Gardner.
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Hi - thanks so much!

That's working fine, but how do I put a conditional there that it only shows if the field is filled in in the config?

Thanks!!
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