Sidebar with Costum Template Filter Not Showing

It looks like this has to do with being a Pod page. All other pages and filters are working fine. I have a bit of php knowledge. Could you guide me in the right direction on how to program this?

I got it as far as listing the Pod pages but I don’t know how to filter or search….please have a look:

* @package Content Aware Sidebars
 * @author Joachim Jensen <jv@intox.dk>
 */

/**
 *
 * Pods Module
 *
 * Detects if current content is:
 * a) any or specific pods pages
 *
 */
class CASModule_pods extends CASModule {

	/**
	 * Constructor
	 */
	public function __construct() {
		parent::__construct();
		$this->id = 'pods';
		$this->name = __('Pods Pages',ContentAwareSidebars::DOMAIN);

	}

	/**
	 * Get pods pages
	 * @return array
	 */
	protected function _get_content() {

		if ( function_exists( 'pods_api' ) ) {

    		// Get PodsAPI
    		$api = pods_api();

		    // Get Pod Pages
    		$pod_pages = $api->load_pages();

		    $pod_page_list = array();

		    foreach ( $pod_pages as $pod_page ) {
        		$pod_page_list[] = $pod_page[ 'name' ];
    		}
		}

		return $pod_page_list;

		/*
		return array(
				'Page 1'	=> __('Page 1', ContentAwareSidebars::DOMAIN),
				'Page 2'	=> __('Page 2', ContentAwareSidebars::DOMAIN),
				'Page 3'	=> __('Page 3', ContentAwareSidebars::DOMAIN)
		);
		*/

	}

	/**
	 * Determine if content is relevant
	 * @return boolean
	 */
	public function is_content() {
		return true;
	}

	/**
	 * Query where
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function db_where() {
		return "(bb_profile.meta_value = 'bb_profile' OR bb_profile.meta_value = '".bbp_get_displayed_user_id()."')";
	}

	/**
	 * Meta box content
	 * @global object $post
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function meta_box_content() {
		global $post;

		echo '<h4><a href="#">'.$this->name.'</a></h4>'."\n";
		echo '<div class="cas-rule-content" id="cas-' . $this->id . '">'. "\n";
		$meta = get_post_meta($post->ID, ContentAwareSidebars::PREFIX . $this->id, false);
		$current = $meta != '' ? $meta : array();

		echo '<ul id="cas-list-' . $this->id . '" class="cas-contentlist categorychecklist form-no-clear">'. "\n";
		foreach ($this->_get_content() as $id => $name) {
			echo '<li><label><input type="checkbox" name="' . $this->id . '[]" value="' . $id . '"' . (in_array($id, $current) ? ' checked="checked"' : '') . ' /> ' . $name . '</label></li>' . "\n";
		}
		echo '</ul>'. "\n";
		echo '</div>'. "\n";
	}

}

Hello Scott,

Thank you – not sure where this will go. I think I first have to work on the return array that lists the pod pages. It looks like it needs to be in a certain format. See below:

/*
		return array(
				'Page 1'	=> __('Page 1', ContentAwareSidebars::DOMAIN),
				'Page 2'	=> __('Page 2', ContentAwareSidebars::DOMAIN),
				'Page 3'	=> __('Page 3', ContentAwareSidebars::DOMAIN)
		);
		*/

In pods you can add code into a pre code form. Here you can define any variable that can be picked up before calling the sidebar. That could be used as an ID. for example:

$pod_page_id = 5;

The pods plugin for Content Aware Sidebars can read this variable and knows that it is a pod page.

Ok, I put another few hours of work in and I have a working version that can now select a sidebar depending on a specific pods page. However the code needs to be cleaned up.

Here are the things that need to be better coded:
– Name of pod is url – used (/*) filter ?
– pods_url_variable(‘first’, uri) may not work is pod is ‘second’

Here is the code:

<?php
/**
 * @package Content Aware Sidebars
 * @author Joachim Jensen <jv@intox.dk>
 */

/**
 *
 * Pods Module
 *
 * Detects if current content is:
 * a) any or specific pods pages
 *
 */
class CASModule_pods extends CASModule {

	/**
	 * Constructor
	 */
	public function __construct() {
		parent::__construct();
		$this->id = 'pods';
		$this->name = __('Pods Pages',ContentAwareSidebars::DOMAIN);

	}

	/**
	 * Get pods pages
	 * @return array
	 */
	protected function _get_content() {

		if ( function_exists( 'pods_api' ) ) {

    		// Get PodsAPI
    		$api = pods_api();

		    // Get Pod Pages
    		$pod_pages = $api->load_pages();

		    $pod_page_list = array();

		    foreach ( $pod_pages as $pod_page ) {
        		$pod_page_list[] = str_replace("/*", "", $pod_page[ 'name' ]);
    		}
		}

		return $pod_page_list;
	}

	/**
	 * Determine if content is relevant
	 * @return boolean
	 */
	public function is_content() {
		return is_pod_page();
	}

	/**
	 * Where query
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function db_where() {
		$pods_name = pods_url_variable('first', uri);
		return "(pods.meta_value IS NULL OR pods.meta_value = '".$pods_name."')";

	}

	/**
	 * Meta box content
	 * @global object $post
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function meta_box_content() {
		global $post;

		echo '<h4><a href="#">'.$this->name.'</a></h4>'."\n";
		echo '<div class="cas-rule-content" id="cas-' . $this->id . '">'. "\n";
		$meta = get_post_meta($post->ID, ContentAwareSidebars::PREFIX . $this->id, false);
		$current = $meta != '' ? $meta : array();

		echo '<ul id="cas-list-' . $this->id . '" class="cas-contentlist categorychecklist form-no-clear">'. "\n";
		foreach ($this->_get_content() as $id => $name) {
			echo '<li><label><input type="checkbox" name="' . $this->id . '[]" value="' . $name . '"' . (in_array($name, $current) ? ' checked="checked"' : '') . ' /> ' . $name . '</label></li>' . "\n";
		}
		echo '</ul>'. "\n";
		echo '</div>'. "\n";
	}

}

It is for Pods Pages only as they were not working with a dynamic sidebar. Pods via theme templates work fine as they are recognized as WordPress pages.

I had to dig into this because of SEO issues. If you use dynamic content from Pods via WordPress Theme you can’t have dynamic page titles set, because the title is set by the WordPress page.