[SOLVED] Force template on children (Plug-in: Inherit Selected Template)

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StevenLangbroek Reply #1, 16 years, 4 months ago

Hi again

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So my own site is coming along nicely, but I know what I’m doing. I can only assume that my clients don’t, and that they won’t, for example, select the right template when adding a child to a page. Is there any way to force a template-type for new children of a certain page? So for example force all children of resource Blog to have "blogEntry" as template?

Thanks!

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 16 years, 4 months ago

didn’t test it but you can try to edit inherit-parent-template-plugin like that:

/*
 * Written By Raymond Irving - 12 Oct 2006
 *
 * Simply results in new documents inherriting the template 
 * of their parent folder upon creating a new document
 *
 * Configuration:
 * check the OnDocFormPrerender event
 *
 * Version 1.0
 *
 */

global $content;
$e = &$modx->Event;
$tvname='childTemplate';

switch($e->name) {
  case 'OnDocFormPrerender':
    if(($_REQUEST['pid'] > 0) && ($id == 0)) {
      if($parent = $modx->getPageInfo($_REQUEST['pid'],0,'template')) {
          $tv=$modx->getTemplateVarOutput($tvname,$_REQUEST['pid']);
          $content['template'] = !empty($tv[$tvname])?$tv[$tvname]: $parent['template'];
      }
    }
    break;

  default:
    return;
    break;
}

have a TV in your parent resource named childTemplate which holds the templateID for its childs.

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StevenLangbroek Reply #3, 16 years, 4 months ago

I’ve found a Plug-in called Inherit Selected Template. I’ve configed it exactly the way the manual told me and assigned a TV, but when I try to edit the container of which I want the children to be forced a template, the listbox gives me back this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/digitaaldier.nl/public_html/manager/includes/tmplvars.commands.inc.php(60) : eval()'d code on line 1

The EVAL in the TV is:

@EVAL $sql = 'SELECT templatename,id FROM '.$modx->db->config'table_prefix'.'site_templates';$a=array(array('',''),array('Inherit Parent','-1')); $v = $modx->db->query($sql);while($rows = mysql_fetch_row($v)) $a=$rows; return $a;

Any thoughts?

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Bruno17 Reply #4, 16 years, 4 months ago

why not just:

@SELECT templatename,id FROM `modx_site_templates`

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StevenLangbroek Reply #5, 16 years, 4 months ago

Worked like a charm! Thanks alot guys