Spice up Your CMS Sitetree

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27 August 2009 | Martijn van Nieuwenhoven | CMS, Images, Site Tree | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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So you have created your own page types, but they all look the same in your CMS site tree. Time to make them more recognizable! This is quite easy, but it can make your site tree a lot more attractive.

First grab some icons, buy them or create you own custom aesthetic icon set. They only thing you have to keep in mind, is that your icons need to be saved as youriconname-file.gif.

Next create a folder in mysite, like /images/icons, to store your icons.

To assign a icon to your page class, add the a static $icon var to your page class like.

MyCustomPage.php

class MyCustomPage extends Page {
 
    static $icon = 'mysite/images/icons/mycustomicon';
}

See that I don't add -file.gif to it. This is actually not necessary.

You can also specify a particular class's icon from your _config file:

_config.php

RedirectorPage::$icon = array('mysite/images/icons/redirector',"file");

 

Now go to your your CMS admin and see the result.