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[plugin] Inherit template from parent

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    netnoise Reply #1, 21 years ago
    I needed backend-function which automatically selects the template of the parent document (instead of using the system-wide default template) if the user creates a blank page. This is what I got - hope, this is kind of useful for someone:
    global $content;
$e = &$modx->Event;

switch($e->name) {
  case 'OnDocFormPrerender':
    if(($_REQUEST['pid'] > 0) && ($id == 0)) {
      if($parent = $modx->getPageInfo($_REQUEST['pid'],0,'template')) {
        $content['template'] = $parent['template'];
      }
    }
    break;

  default:
    return;
    break;
}
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      Ryan Thrash Reply #2, 21 years ago
      that’s very cool indeed.
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        Zombie Reply #3, 21 years ago
        That is really cool but how do you use it!

        Thanks
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          davidm Reply #4, 20 years, 8 months ago
          Yeah, I thought it would automatically set the template of the parent when selecting "Create a document here" but it does not...

          How do we use it ?
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            wendy Reply #5, 20 years, 8 months ago
            It work on mine though.
            It will automatically set the default template according to the parent template, during the creation of new doc/folder on backend.
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              davidm Reply #6, 20 years, 8 months ago
              I’ll check then, it’s probably me doing something wrong...
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                vbrilon Reply #7, 20 years, 8 months ago
                Great code, thanks! Very useful stuff for multi-template site.

                One additional instruction for using this (since it wasn’t obvious to me): Look at the tab on the Plugin entry page that’s labeled "System Events". Go into that tab and check "OnDocFormPrerender" on that page and then this works just fine.
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                  Ryan Thrash Reply #8, 20 years, 7 months ago
                  Nice indeed ... added as rev 725 for 0.9.2 release. smiley
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                    zenmaster Reply #9, 20 years, 5 months ago
                    This is incorrectly credited to Ray Irving in 0.9.2, also the date is 12 Oct 2006.

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