i am working on moodle 2.8 and essential theme now i want to set my home page to show the forum topics . from frontpage.php in render folder i can see that they used get_setting funtion to render items but i cant find where and how to use this function to show the forum page in home page by the way i duplicated the code which renders the home page but i guess that my argomans are not true so this get setting is not working and now showing any thing ty in advance `
if ($showfrontcontent) { ?>
<div class="frontpagecontent">
<?php
echo $OUTPUT->get_setting('frontcontentarea', 'format_html');
echo $OUTPUT->get_setting('mod_forum', 'format_html');
echo $OUTPUT->essential_edit_button('theme_essential_frontpage');
?>
</div>`
An easy way to do this, and should be created as a default in Moodle in my humble opinion, is to create a centre region in the frontpage layout.
Then when you add a block (with your forum topics code) to the front page, just move it to the centre region.
Here is how to create the region :
in /theme/themename/config.php
add 'center-post' to regions for the frontpage.
'frontpage' => array(
'file' => 'default.php',
'regions' => array('side-pre', 'side-post', 'center-post'),
'defaultregion' => 'side-pre',
'options' => array('langmenu'=>true),
),
in /theme/themename/lang/en/theme_themename.php
add a string for the region name
$string['region-center-post'] = 'Center Bottom';
in /theme/themename/layout/default.php
add the $hasscenterpost line:
$hassidepost = (empty($PAGE->layout_options['noblocks']) && $PAGE->blocks->region_has_content('side-post', $OUTPUT));
// Add this line.
$hascenterpost = (empty($PAGE->layout_options['noblocks']) && $PAGE->blocks->region_has_content('center-post', $OUTPUT));
$haslogininfo = (empty($PAGE->layout_options['nologininfo']));
Then after the region-content
div, add the if ($hascenterpost)
code:
<div id="region-main">
<div class="region-content">
<?php echo $coursecontentheader; ?>
<?php echo $OUTPUT->main_content() ?>
<?php echo $coursecontentfooter; ?>
</div>
<?php if ($hascenterpost) { ?>
<div id="region-center-post" class="block-region">
<div class="region-content">
<?php echo $OUTPUT->blocks_for_region('center-post'); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php } ?>
</div>
You will probably need to increment the version number in /theme/themename/version.php
too.