Custom link for view button in admin/edit mode possible?

[simonGG]

Hi there,

i developt a single page website where home.php includes the template file php's.
So my template files are not considered to be viewed as they are. Only in context 
with the home. Because of that i want that the view button in edit mode allways
links to the root page. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance && regards
Simon

[tpr]

A simple session->redirect($pages->get(1)); exit(); won't do in your template files?

Edit: you would probably need to wrap the redirect into a condition $page->id != 1 to allow your template code run on the homepage.

[Martijn Geerts]

The view tab is hookable so you could do a before hook and change the property of that hook.

https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/blob/master/wire/modules/Process/ProcessPageEdit/ProcessPageEdit.module#L898

[Jonathan Lahijani]

On 10/22/2016 at 7:43 AM, tpr said:

A simple session->redirect($pages->get(1)); exit(); won't do in your template files?

Edit: you would probably need to wrap the redirect into a condition $page->id != 1 to allow your template code run on the homepage.

Shouldn't 

return $this->halt();

be used instead of

exit();

?

[tpr]

Probably yes, but without "return" (there is no function context).

[LostKobrakai]

26 minutes ago, tpr said:

but without "return" (there is no function context)

You're correct, that there's no function context, but a return statement does also stop the execution of code in files loaded by require/include statements. Most often a $this->halt() without return doesn't make much sense.

[tpr]

Thanks, so that's why I noticed it's not working as I expected in certain cases.

[simonGG]

Sorry for the late replay - and thanks for your help.
I ended up with this in all template files - it's a multilingual Site ():

$pages = wire('pages');
$session->redirect($pages->get(1)->url);
exit();

Without get(1)->url it redirected me to ...myurl/de/pageName/1 - maybe this has to do with the fact that ist is a multilingual site?

Thanks a lot + regards
Simon