How do you embed and app in a page?

mcollins

I'm used to Sitellite CMS. There, I would put something like xt:box name="myapp/index" id="instance_var" I could put that either in an editable area of a page or I could embed it in a specific template.

I'm sorry, but I can't seem to find this spot in the documentation. I see that I can go to that app as a URL, but what I need to do is embed an app in a page. Like, what if I want to write my own navigation app? or what if I need several apps in one page? Maybe the question is how do I reference an app in a block? I tried the installing the hello app. However, that's not showing up in the Dynamic Obects.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

jbroadway

This looks like an area of the documentation that could use some attention, now that I see it again. It's a bit hidden halfway down a page buried in the Developers section...

To make a handler in your app appear in the Dynamic Objects dialog, create a conf/embed.php in your app with the following:

; <?php /*

[myapp/hello]
label = "MyApp: Hello"

; */ ?>

All the options for it are listed here:

http://www.elefantcms.com/wiki/Dynamic-handlers-and-the-wysiwyg-editor#configuring-your-handlers

Hope that helps :)

mcollins

That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much for the pointer :)