EVAL TV or function call

I created a TV with an EVAL expression but it seems that if I enter a line break in the textarea, the expression is not evaluated fully.

Working example: returns "ab".

Not working example:
This way the code can be used (if put in one single line) but is not readable any more. Is there any oter solution?
Call of a function that returns the string I need? How do I include this code, as a snippet? How do I execute it for a TV?


I want to have a drop down TV containing all the filenames in a certain folder and I guess this is te best way.
TIA, AndraZ

This will be rectified in the next release and is a known issue with 095. Sorry for the inconvenience.

No problem, I was just "curios". I can wait and in the meantime I’ll use it as a one-line function.

You can also just put your @EVAL code in a snippet and run it from the TV like so:

@EVAL return $modx->runSnippet(’yourSnippetName’);

or like so if you need to pass variables to the snippet:

@EVAL return $modx->runSnippet(’yourSnippetName’, array(’a’=>’a’,’b’=>’b’));

I do this as a rule because it’s much easier to view and edit the @EVALed code as a snippet anyway.

Quote from: ZAP at Jan 24, 2007, 10:53 AM

You can also just put your @EVAL code in a snippet and run it from the TV like so:

@EVAL return $modx->runSnippet(’yourSnippetName’);

or like so if you need to pass variables to the snippet:

@EVAL return $modx->runSnippet(’yourSnippetName’, array(’a’=>’a’,’b’=>’b’));

I do this as a rule because it’s much easier to view and edit the @EVALed code as a snippet anyway.

And though this does work, the fact that you are essentially eval()’ing within another eval() is not necessarily a good practice for performance or security reasons. However, soon enough, only the @EVAL will use the actual eval() function, and all will be well...

Thanks, that’s what I was looking for as a "best practice".