how to share some global block

[bigtiger]

Greetings from a new user. Have to say I like it.

I would like to create a page that only uses the global content--ie, to share the header and footer that I created. Also, I would like to temporally disable the pretty URLs.


Can somebody tell me if it is possible? Thanks.

I do some programming in php and mysql. Not a full time programmer though.

[Elijah Lofgren]

I would like to create a page that only uses the global content--ie, to share the header and footer that I created.

If you created your header and footer at "Content » Global Content Blocks"
and named them 'header' and 'footer' then you can just paste this in your page content:

{global_content name='header'}
{global_content name='footer'}

Or, I could be misunderstanding what you want.

Also, I would like to temporally disable the pretty URLs.

You can just open config.php and set all the pretty URL settings to false. Like this:

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#Show mod_rewrite URLs in the menu? You must enable 'use_hierarchy' for this to work for modules
$config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = false;

#Extension to use if you're using mod_rewrite for pretty URLs.
$config['page_extension'] = '/';

#If you don't use mod_rewrite, then would you like to use the built-in
#pretty url mechanism?  This will not work with IIS and the {metadata} tag
#should be in all of your templates before enabling.
$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = false;

#If you're using the internal pretty url mechanism or mod_rewrite, would you like to
#show urls in their hierarchy?  (ex. http://www.mysite.com/parent/parent/childpage)
$config['use_hierarchy'] = false;

...

Hope this helps,

Elijah