Chunks not working in NewsPublisher? Remove the whitespace.

So, after long than I care to admit, I found something out that may help others.
When using the NewsPublisher snippet with a chunk, if you’re having problems, remove any whitespace after defining the chunk.

Examples:
This works: [[NewsPublisher? &formtpl=ChunkName]]
This doesn’t: [[NewsPublisher? &formtpl=ChunkName ]]

I ran into this problem because I’m in the habit of putting spaces in between all my variables, like this: [[NewsPublisher? &folder=33 &template=AccessWebCourse &showinmenu=1 &aliastitle=1 &clearcache=1 &formtpl=CourseAdd ]]

That extra little space took me too long to figure out! Hopefully my wasted time will save somebody else Anybody have any idea if that’s how it should be, or if the NewsPublisher could be written to fix that?
-Brett

Quote from: The at Nov 22, 2005, 02:14 AM

Examples:
This works:  [[NewsPublisher? &formtpl=ChunkName]]
This doesn’t:  [[NewsPublisher? &formtpl=ChunkName ]]

It’s best to use:

[[NewsPublisher? &formtpl=`ChunkName` ]]

Please note the ` character

Believe it or not, that doesn’t work. Sorry, I should have noted that in my first post.
Doesn’t work: &formtpl=’ChunkName’ ]]
Doesn’t work: &formtpl=’ChunkName’]]

Nothing with single-quotes (or double-quotes) works, regardless of whitespace. I swear I’m not crazy. I’ve doublechecked that the snippet hasn’t been modified, and I’ve tested on another installation as well with the same results.

Those are supposed to be backticks (left of the 1 key), not single-quotes.

That would do it! Sorry for my ignorance. Combined with declining eyesight and high resolution, I couldn’t tell the difference.

Thanks Raymond and Susan. Much appreciated.

Don’t feel bad, it took me a couple of months before I finally started getting that right. And I know what you mean about declining eyesight.

Waow...

That’s the same problem that I encountered when I first started using MySql a few years ago. They all looks the same, right?

OK folks, please educate me. The backtick thing is new to me as Eto didn’t require it at all in snippet parameters. Why is this considered superior? And is all white space between parameters ignored? For example could you do this:



And on the note of eyesight - I had Lasik eye surgery. So my declining vision is now 20/20! What a miraculous use of technology.

I think the backtics are used because it’s likely to have a use for actual single- and double-quotes. For instance

MySQL does this, allowing backticks for such things as database, table, and field names:

As of MySQL 3.23.6, names can be quoted within backtick characters (’´’), which allows use of any character except backtick, ASCII 0, and ASCII 255. This is useful when a name contains special characters or is a reserved word. Quoting a name also allows it to be entirely numeric, something that is not true of unquoted names.