If I've understood correctly I had a very similar problem. I was using
the inbuilt pages controller and had an 'AddThis' widget in the footer
of the layout that I generally wanted to be visible, but on certain
pages it wasn't required. All I did was at the top of the pages I
didn't want the 'AddThis' button to be visible I added '$this->noshare
= true' and then in the layout didn't show the button if $this-
>noshare was set and true.
Worked for me.
On Apr 8, 2:40 pm, John Andersen <j.andersen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for trying :)
>
> Do I understand correctly, that you are invoking/calling/whatever an
> element (Google Analytics) from the layout?
> John
>
> On Apr 8, 2:27 pm, the_woodsman <elwood.ca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > John, let me give it another go!
>
> > Googl analytics is still my best example.
>
> > I want every single page to have the basic analytics snippet.
> > I really don't want to have this in every single view- it'd be a big
> > job to go through all the existing views and add the call to render
> > the element (not very DRY), it makes my views more cluttered, and it
> > introduces the risk that pages are deployed without the snippet,
> > placing the burden on the developers to know about these snippets that
> > have to be placed in every view they create!
>
> > However, some pages need to completely override the default version in
> > the layout.
> > For example, analytics doesn't auto track 40x/50x HTTP responses, so I
> > want to change the analytics code for specific views.
>
> > So right now, my layout renders the analytics element, passing it a
> > variable form viewVars if necessary.
>
> > Then, my error page for 404s etc sets this variable to a custom value
> > ("error-404") so we can track how often our users hit error pages.
>
> > This technique is DRY (no unnecessary repetition of the same snippet),
> > employs convention over config (the convention is analytics is handled
> > in the layout, unless you're dealing with a special case), and there's
> > no risk of analytics not being included on a page.
>
> > None of the suggestions so far seem as elegant as this...?
>
> [snip]
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