Template Switcher Plugin

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sottwell Reply #11, 21 years ago

I actually did something similar with the EPG photo gallery; I hacked the snippet to create javascript calls to switch stylesheets when clicking on the thumbnail instead of links to the larger image. It would be easy enough to have it make links for the template switcher instead.

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jabiertxof Reply #12, 21 years ago

for read the id of the template whithout go to mysql simply mouseover template names and read the bottom bar and see the changes only change the id, in explorer could breack the direction but in firefox show all

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sottwell Reply #13, 21 years ago

The question with a snippet to generate the menu links would be, do you want ALL of your templates to be switchable?

By manually creating the links (and really, how many templates are you likely to be switching to?) you can be selective; unless the snippet took an argument of a list of templates to include/exclude, and then you might just as well make the links yourself; it’s easy enough to copy/paste the links and just change the template’s id and the link’s text.

Or use a TV, I suppose, and have a chunk with a list of templates to include or exclude...now that would be useful, you could also include a list of document ids to not allow switching, if you had a specific template for a certain document, and it was OK for everything else to use that template, but that form or whatever on the document really needed that template. As it is, I have it made so you have to put an HTML comment in the template you don’t want changed, which slows things down since the whole template has to be parsed first to see if that comment is there. And it won’t change any page using that template by default, while you may only have one page that you don’t want changed. This is making my head hurt... undecided

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Zombie Reply #14, 20 years, 8 months ago

The demo is no more online, it is a pity.
Banzai use the same method for his website TattooCMS.it?

Otherwise, something’s new?

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sottwell Reply #15, 20 years, 8 months ago

I was just getting sick of the IE crap with all the templates.

You can see it again (single-page only, no cookie) at

http://www.alandaniel.co.uk

which is still very much "under construction".

(click on the scrolling images)

// TemplateSwitcher - plugin for MODx
// uses OnLoadWebDocument event
// stores template choice in cookie
// comment out lines 10, 11 and 27
// for single-page switch
if(!strstr($modx->documentContent, "donotswitch")) { // this page is not switchable
    if (isset($_GET['template'])) {
      $overrideTemplate = $_GET['template'];
//    } else if (isset($_COOKIE['template'])) {
//      $overrideTemplate = $_COOKIE['template']; 
    }
    if (isset($overrideTemplate)) {
      $table = $modx->getFullTableName("site_templates");
      $result = $modx->db->select("id, content",$table,"templatename = '".$overrideTemplate."'");
      if($modx->db->getRecordCount($result) == 1) {
        $row = $modx->db->getRow($result);
        $modx->documentObject['template']=$row['id'];
        $modx->documentContent = $row['content'];
      } else {
        $this->messageQuit("Error retrieving template.");
      }
//      setcookie("template",$overrideTemplate,time()+604800, "/", "", 0);
    }
} // end if page is switchable

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davidm Reply #16, 20 years, 8 months ago

I am a happy user of your switcher, great !

Tip for those who have read the beginning of the thread and tried the example : use name of template instead of ID, e.g, if your template is named "original" :
<a href="[~[*id*]~]&template=original">Original template</a>

Using the template id gave me a parse error : maybe because I am using friendly urls ?).

Really nice to have this, Susan, many thanks grin

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davidm Reply #17, 20 years, 8 months ago

No problem, I figured it out reading the thread, it was mentionned by Theo and I think it’s just great with template name

Quote from: sottwell at Jan 25, 2006, 04:26 AM

Oops...my bad, I originally had it using ID, but that’s kind of awkward if you don’t know the ID of your templates, so I changed it to template name. Will correct the documentation and re-upload. <sigh>
Thanks!

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sottwell Reply #18, 20 years, 8 months ago

Sorry...I originally had it using the template ID, but that’s kind of hard to determine, so I changed it to use the template name.

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joshlfisher Reply #19, 20 years ago

I would like to incorporate this into each template, so no matter which template is shown, or which page you are on, you can switch to another template. How do I incorporate dynamic page id #’s?

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sottwell Reply #20, 20 years ago

It’s automatic, it can be used for any page. The pages have to be uncached, though.

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