EasyPHP calendar and running PHP code MODX versus etomite

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pastortj Reply #1, 20 years ago

I recently converted my site from Etomite to Modx. I love Modx but I have a small difference to figure out. I was running the easyPHPcalendar. This required putting PHP code in the template and body of pages.

In MODx the PHP is not processed in teh template. I assume that al PHP must be in the form of a snippet or module. easyPHPcalendar requires the following statement in the head section.

<?php $CSS=1; require("calendar/calendar.php"); ?>

I tried putting this in as a snippet but so far no go. Any tips on how I can do this. I know its probably an easy solution but I’ve been away from PHP for awhile now.

Thanks,
terry
http://216.70.102.151

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PaulGregory Reply #2, 20 years ago

Can you clarify

1) did you end up with 2 snippets, one in the head and one in the body?
2) which version of MODx are you using? (We have a beta of 0.9.5 available at the moment as well as 0.9.2, and there’s some changes to the way <?php is handled in a snippet).

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ajayre Reply #3, 20 years ago

You can use a single snippet that outputs to a placeholder for the head section, so somewhere inside the head tags add:

[+easyphpcalendarhead+]

and then where you want the calendar call the snippet:

[[easyphpcalendar]]

Inside the snippet code output the piece that goes into the head to the easyphpcalendarhead placeholder.

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sottwell Reply #4, 20 years ago

A snippet is php code and processed accordingly, therefore to "include" or "require" something you would just use

$CSS=1; 
require("calendar/calendar.php");
return;

You can use the snippet configuration to make configuration easier; for example:

&CSS=CSS;int;1 &calPath=calPath;text;calendar/

now you can easily set these to whatever values you want, and they’ll be used in the snippet.
Then your snippet would look like:

require ($calPath."calendar.php");
return;

(the return; probably isn’t really necessary, but it’s a good idea to always close out a snippet with one)

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pastortj Reply #5, 20 years ago

Thanks a lot for the advice. I was able to get it working in 2 minutes once I read your posts. I se how I had the HTML <? tags which were killing the code. I removed the <? and everthing worked. I also added the return;

If anyone is ever interested in easyPHPcalendar then here are 3 snippets to help the implementation. I will have more snippets when I finish the setup of my site. http://216.70.102.151

Snippet: [[easyCalHead]]

$CSS=1; 
require("calendar/calendar.php");
return;

Snippet: [[easyCalBody]]

$OL=1; 
require("calendar/calendar.php");
return;

Snippet: [[easyCalImplement]]

require("calendar/calendar.php");
// SHOW LISTINGS MODULE
// $epcListMouseover=1; // WILL USE THE MOUSE-OVER POPUPS FOR LIST MODE
      $LIST=1;
      $listEvents = 10;
      $listWeeks=52;
      $noOld = 1;
      $DF = "M jS, Y (D)"; 
      $template="modern.php";
      require("calendar/calendar.php");
return;

Here is my template code if it matters

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en-us" lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
 <script type="text/javascript">
 <!--
 // Empty script to kill FOUC in IE
 // www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp
 -->
 </script>

[[MetaTagsExtra]]

 <style type="text/css">@import url(assets/templates/new-E/new-E.css);</style>

{{CoolMenu}}
[[easyCalHead]]
</head>

<body>
[[easyCalBody]]


<div id="bodyLiner">


<div id="lwfHeader">
  {{MainBanner}}
</div>

<div id="lwfMenu">
    [[CoolMenu?type=horizontal&align=left&top=180&left=0&arrow=0&width=126&height=25]]
</div>

<div id="lwfBanner">
      <img src="assets/images/banners/takegodsmall.jpg" alt="Take God at His Word" border="1"/>
       <hr>
</div>


<div id="lwfContent">
         
       [*content*]

</div>

<div id="lwfSideCol">
[[easyCalImplement]]
</div>
  

<div id="lwfFooter">
  <p>[!Copyright!] | [[PoweredBy]]</p>
  <p>MySQL: [^qt^], [^q^] request(s), PHP: [^p^], total: [^t^], 
    document retrieved from [^s^].</p>
</div>


</div>
</body>
</html>

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