In the concrete5 dashboard interface, page types have icons associated with them. In some advanced applications, you may want to retrieve the icon for the page type. In this recipe, we will load a page type by its handle and get its icon.
We will be loading a page type with a handle of right_sidebar
. Feel free to change this handle to something appropriate for your concrete5 instance if right_sidebar
does not exist.
The steps for getting the icon for a page are as follows:
Open
/config/site_post.php
in your favorite code editor, as this is a good place to try out random code.Load the page type by its path.
$pageType = CollectionType::getByHandle('right_sidebar');
Get the icon image.
$icon = $pageType->getCollectionTypeIconImage();
Output the image. You should see the icon's image appear.
echo $icon; exit;
If you would like to get the numeric ID of the file containing the page type icon, you can simply call this function:
$iconId = $pageType->getCollectionTypeIcon();
The numeric ID is useful when working with the file manager in concrete5, which is discussed in detail in Chapter 3, Files and File Sets of this book.