OnWebPagePrerender broken on 2.1 upgrade from 2.0.8

like the title says... OnWebPagePrerender doesn’t fire.

i can make a simple echo("hello"); php script and set OnWebPagePrerender and it never fires....

i go into a 2.0.8 installation and it works great. I look in the 2.1 release notes and I explicitly see that OnWebPagePrerender has been fixed where instances of it not firing... so it seems like for me at least, this is exactly the opposite... its gone from actually working on 2.0.8 to not working at all (at least on a upgrade) Kinda sucks cause without this feature its completetly unusable as a ugprade... any thing I can do? at this point i am restoring my web server from last nights backup so i don’t have this issue, but that means i am back at 2.0.8 What else can I do? wait for 2.1.1? Looking forward to any help, I know themodx team is great and I love MODX, so I know this will get worked out I am just letting you know its not working for me.

Thanks!

Zurie, I’m not doubting you, but echo can be unreliable in plugins. Try this instead:

Create a chunk called debug and put this code in the plugin:



Then look at the debug chunk with Quick Update Chunk.

If it’s really not firing, please report it here: http://bugs.modx.com/ so it will get the attention it deserves.

Bob, I couldn’t for the life of me get your concept to work... I don’t really understand what you want me to do???

I made a plugin named "test" and pasted your code into the plugin. Then I went into the plugin and set OnWebPagePrerender to Checked.

Then I made a chunk called "debug"

then what? do i call debug in my content of my test page? like [[$debug]] or do i just leave it. either way, i get this"


I looked at your code and I think you mean ’ instead of a " so i fixed that and now it doesn’t seem to do anything?

what should I be looking for?



ok, got it.. I put anytthing in my chunk - debug, then when I call debug its replaced with "Plugin Fired" which makes sense, looking at your code. So its working... now to test this theory in 2.0.8 to 2.1 upgrade

OnWebPagePrerender works fine. using Bob’s code proved it was a error on my part and not on the pre-render part, and he was right, echo was unreliable and not the right way to test it

Thanks for all your help! and for modx 2.1! awesome!

Thanks for reporting back.

Before anyone else chimes in, you can also use the $modx->log() to write debugging info to the error log, but I like my method because you don’t have to leave your work to see the debug info (and I can never remember the constants and syntax for the log() statement).