Page structure best practice

Elgg pages have an overall pageshell, a main layout and several page elements. It’s recommended to always use the default layout as all page elements can be controlled using that layout.

If you’re not using the default layout you can call

$layout_area = elgg_view_layout($layout_name, [
        'content' => $content,
        'section' => $section,
]);

The different page elements are passed as an array in the second parameter. The array keys correspond to elements in the layout. The array values contain the html that should be displayed in those areas:

$layout_area = elgg_view_layout('default', [
        'content' => $content,
]);

$layout_area = elgg_view_layout('default', [
        'content' => $content,
        'sidebar' => $sidebar,
]);

You can then, ultimately, pass this into the elgg_view_page function:

echo elgg_view_page($title, $layout_area);

If you’re using the default layout you can also pass the array with page elements directly to elgg_view_page:

echo elgg_view_page($title, [
        'content' => $content,
        'sidebar' => $sidebar,
]);

You can control many of the page elements:

echo elgg_view_page('This is the browser title', [
        'title' => 'This is the page title',
        'content' => $content,
        'sidebar' => false, // no default sidebar
        'sidebar_alt' => $sidebar_alt, // show an alternate sidebar
]);

Ver también

Have a look at the page/layouts/default view to find out more information about the supported page elements