Site Wide Banners

Allows CMS authors to create site-wide banners, to alert visitors of important information regardless of the page they're viewing.

Features

• Themeable templates
• Configure type of alert (defaults to "info", "warning" and "alert")
• Multiple concurrent alerts
• Set start/end dates for alert
• Permission controls
• Localisation of CMS UI controls and labels
• Preview and publish through versioning
• CMS users can make banners "dismissible", allowing users to hide banners after reading.
• Rich-text editing (insert links and images)
• Optional: Sorting through gridfieldextensions
• Support for subsites

Screenshot

Requirements

• php >= 8.0
• SilverStripe ^5

For a Silverstripe CMS ^4 compatible version of this module, please see the releases <=3.0.1.

Installation

composer require nzta/silverstripe-sitebanner

Configuration

Site settings

Add the following to your YAML config to configure the module:

SilverStripe\SiteConfig\SiteConfig:
  extensions:
    - NZTA\SiteBanner\Extensions\SiteConfigExtension

Add the following environment variable to you .env file to activate the module in site settings:

SITEBANNER_SITECONFIG=1

The site banner can be configured in admin/settings now.

Note: The site settings interface is a legacy feature that exists to keep background compatibility for anyone who still want to use this interface. This feature won't receive future updates, and we recommend using the default implementation with model admin. With admin model we are not forced to expose site settings to CMS users who must only be allowed to managed site banners.

Model admin

By default, the site banners are managed from the model admin interface.

Templates

In order to show the banners, you need to add them to your template:

<% loop $SiteConfig.SiteBanners %>
    <div id="site-banner-$ID" class="site-banner site-banner-$Type site-banner--hidden" role="alert" data-id="$ID" aria-hidden="true" data-nosnippet>
        $Content
        <% if $Dismiss %>
            <button class="site-banner-close" aria-label="Close" data-id="$ID">×</button>
        <% end_if %>
    </div>
<% end_loop %>

Bootstrap Styles

If you're using Bootstrap, it's easy to get useful default styles for alerts through a combination of contextual backgrounds and icons.

<% loop $SiteConfig.SiteBanners %>
    <% if $Type == 'info' %>
        <p class="bg-info site-banner site-banner-$Type site-banner--hidden" role="alert" data-id="$ID" aria-hidden="true" data-nosnippet>
            <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-info-sign" aria-hidden="true" />
            $Content
        </p>
    <% end_if %>
    <% if $Type == 'warning' %>
        <p class="bg-warning site-banner site-banner-$Type site-banner--hidden" role="alert" data-id="$ID" aria-hidden="true" data-nosnippet>
            <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-warning-sign" aria-hidden="true" />
            $Content
        </p>
    <% end_if %>
    <% if $Type == 'alert' %>
        <p class="bg-danger site-banner site-banner-$Type site-banner--hidden" role="alert" data-id="$ID" aria-hidden="true" data-nosnippet>
            <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-warning-sign" aria-hidden="true" />
            $Content
        </p>
    <% end_if %>
<% end_loop %>

Examples on the SilverStripe default theme:

Permissions

By default, every author with access to the "Settings" section (EDIT_SITECONFIG permission code) can set alerts. You can customise this by YAML configuration:

NZTA\SiteBanner\Models\SiteBanner:
  required_permission_codes:
    - ADMIN

Sorting

You can allow authors to sort multiple alerts by installing the gridfieldextensionsn module. It'll get automatically picked up by the code.

Limitations

• Does not trigger republish when staticpublisher is used