Creating a container

xb385 · July 13, 2022, 10:31pm

Hi, ive been looking through the documentation and cheatsheets but i can’t find a way to programmatically add containers…anyone got any idea how, i was thinking something like the following should be possible:

$pTemplate = PageTemplate::getByHandle(‘three_column’);
if(!$pTemplate) {
PageTemplate::add(‘three_column’, t(‘Three Column’), ‘three_column.png’, $pkg = null);
}

hutman · July 14, 2022, 1:34pm

There are 2 files in the code I can find where a new container is created, doesn’t look quite as simple as some other things.

github.com

concretecms/concretecms/blob/9.1.0/concrete/controllers/single_page/dashboard/pages/containers/add.php

<?php

namespace Concrete\Controller\SinglePage\Dashboard\Pages\Containers;

use Concrete\Core\Entity\Page\Container;
use Concrete\Core\Page\Container\Command\AddContainerCommand;
use Concrete\Core\Page\Container\Command\ContainerCommandValidator;
use Concrete\Core\Page\Controller\DashboardPageController;

class Add extends DashboardPageController
{
    public function view()
    {
        $this->set('tokenMessage', 'add_container');
        $this->render('/dashboard/pages/containers/form');
    }

    public function add_container()
    {
        if ($this->token->validate('add_container')) {

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github.com

concretecms/concretecms/blob/9.1.0/concrete/src/Backup/ContentImporter/Importer/Routine/ImportContainersRoutine.php

<?php
namespace Concrete\Core\Backup\ContentImporter\Importer\Routine;

use Concrete\Core\Block\BlockType\BlockType;
use Concrete\Core\Entity\Express\FieldSet;
use Concrete\Core\Entity\Express\Form;
use Concrete\Core\Entity\Page\Container;
use Concrete\Core\Page\Template;
use Concrete\Core\Page\Theme\Theme;
use Concrete\Core\Permission\Category;
use Concrete\Core\Validation\BannedWord\BannedWord;

class ImportContainersRoutine extends AbstractRoutine
{
    public function getHandle()
    {
        return 'containers';
    }

    public function import(\SimpleXMLElement $sx)

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If you have a package it might be easier to just do it using the CIF stuff like they do in the Atomik

https://github.com/concretecms/concretecms/blob/9.1.0/concrete/config/install/packages/atomik_full/content.xml (around line 447)

xb385 · July 15, 2022, 1:25pm

Thx hutman, that really helps!