Overview
Exploring Craft Components
In this lesson, I walk you through the process of creating and repurposing components within Craft CMS.
We'll focus on one method: includes, which allows you to streamline your workflow by reusing snippets of code across your site. By the end of this lesson, you'll have a solid understanding of how to utilize includes in Craft CMS to efficiently manage and reuse components. We'll start by setting up a simple component to display a cast thumbnail image, and then expand on this by creating similar includes for various elements like the movie card and reviews card. This approach not only saves time but also ensures consistency across your site. Lastly, we'll ensure our updates are properly tracked and implemented through version control.
Summary
- Introduction to Includes: In this lesson, we delve into the concept of includes within Craft CMS, which allows you to create reusable components for your site.
- Setting Up the Cast Thumbnail: We begin by creating a variable to fetch and display a cast thumbnail image. This involves pulling the image from a specified field and adding alternative text for better accessibility.
- Inspecting the Template: Using browser inspection tools, we verify that the image source is correctly pulled from an external server, ensuring that our code works as intended.
- Adding Background Images: We enhance our template by adding a blurred background image, repeating the process used for the cast thumbnail to maintain consistency.
- Creating the Includes Folder: To organize our code, we create a new folder named "_includes" where we store our reusable components.
- Integrating Includes: By including these snippets in our main template using specific paths, we streamline the inclusion of dynamic content across multiple pages.
- Dynamic URL Linking: We ensure that each component directs to the correct dynamic template by integrating URLs that link to the respective entries.
- Expanding Components: We replicate this process for other components such as the movie card and reviews card, demonstrating the versatility of includes.
- Project Organization: We emphasize the importance of maintaining an organized project structure, highlighting how version control helps manage updates and new files.
- Preparation for Next Lesson: Finally, we prepare to move on to creating a movie template, setting the stage for further exploration of Craft CMS capabilities.
Highlights
🔍 Creating Components: Learn how to create reusable components using includes.
🔧 Setting Up Variables: Understand how to set up and use variables for dynamic content.
🌐 URL Integration: Integrate dynamic URLs to link components to the correct pages.
Overview
Exploring Craft Components
In this lesson, I walk you through the process of creating and repurposing components within Craft CMS.
We'll focus on one method: includes, which allows you to streamline your workflow by reusing snippets of code across your site. By the end of this lesson, you'll have a solid understanding of how to utilize includes in Craft CMS to efficiently manage and reuse components. We'll start by setting up a simple component to display a cast thumbnail image, and then expand on this by creating similar includes for various elements like the movie card and reviews card. This approach not only saves time but also ensures consistency across your site. Lastly, we'll ensure our updates are properly tracked and implemented through version control.
Summary
- Introduction to Includes: In this lesson, we delve into the concept of includes within Craft CMS, which allows you to create reusable components for your site.
- Setting Up the Cast Thumbnail: We begin by creating a variable to fetch and display a cast thumbnail image. This involves pulling the image from a specified field and adding alternative text for better accessibility.
- Inspecting the Template: Using browser inspection tools, we verify that the image source is correctly pulled from an external server, ensuring that our code works as intended.
- Adding Background Images: We enhance our template by adding a blurred background image, repeating the process used for the cast thumbnail to maintain consistency.
- Creating the Includes Folder: To organize our code, we create a new folder named "_includes" where we store our reusable components.
- Integrating Includes: By including these snippets in our main template using specific paths, we streamline the inclusion of dynamic content across multiple pages.
- Dynamic URL Linking: We ensure that each component directs to the correct dynamic template by integrating URLs that link to the respective entries.
- Expanding Components: We replicate this process for other components such as the movie card and reviews card, demonstrating the versatility of includes.
- Project Organization: We emphasize the importance of maintaining an organized project structure, highlighting how version control helps manage updates and new files.
- Preparation for Next Lesson: Finally, we prepare to move on to creating a movie template, setting the stage for further exploration of Craft CMS capabilities.
Highlights
🔍 Creating Components: Learn how to create reusable components using includes.
🔧 Setting Up Variables: Understand how to set up and use variables for dynamic content.
🌐 URL Integration: Integrate dynamic URLs to link components to the correct pages.
