Dynamic Header per Forum/Page

[delicjous]

Originally Posted by Pitman

Thanks delicjous, that actually sounds simple enough... I've been able to accomplish everything I've needed to do so far with editing the header template (and even the display_Forums_list template for a few other things)... however, now you've got me concerned about performance issues...

Would your suggestion use less resources than using something similar to...

{vb:set headtitle, {vb:raw page.title}}
{vb:set headdesc, 'Default Extended Description'}

<vb:if condition="$page['channelid'] == 24">
{vb:set headtitle, 'Channel 24 Extended Title'}
{vb:set headdesc, 'Channel 24 Extended Description'}

<vb:elseif condition="$page['channelid'] == 18" />
{vb:set headtitle, 'Channel 18 Extended Title'}
{vb:set headdesc, 'Channel 18 Extended Description'}

<vb:elseif condition="$page['channelid'] == 16" />
{vb:set headtitle, 'Channel 16 Extended Title'}
{vb:set headdesc, 'Channel 16 Extended Description'}

................................

</vb:if>

{vb:raw headtitle}
{vb:raw headdesc}

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Although I'm not a coder or anything, it seems like to me if there could be an extra column added to the database table for each forum\channel (whatever) for a more descriptive title and description (not to mention breadcrumb title). It would be a lot easier for me to do what I need to do and possibly less resource intensive.

First you use multiple if statements, which could be done with only one if you use an array.
Each if-condition needs performance (not that much, but you should use one if you could)!

Second you should use template-hooks to show any of your custom-content. The templates try to merge all your custom-stuff on updates. If this fails you use the old core-template and that could break your page in worst case. Just search for hook in the header template and you could see the locations in the template.