Plugin Question

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #1, 18 years, 5 months ago

How would I go about writing a plugin to add a bit of html to the bottom of the add/edit content page?

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xwisdom Reply #2, 18 years, 5 months ago

Hi Mark,

These are the events for the manager document/content page:

OnDocFormPrerender
OnDocFormRender
OnBeforeDocFormSave
OnDocFormSave
OnBeforeDocFormDelete
OnDocFormDelete

To diplay some text inside the page use:

OnDocFormRender

Here’s an example:

$e = & $modx->Event;
switch ($e->name) {
	case "OnDocFormRender":
		$html = "
			<div class='sectionHeader'><img src='media/images/misc/dot.gif' alt='.' /> My Box</div>
			<div class='sectionBody'>
			<input type='checkbox' name='someoption' value='1' />
			Some text here
			</div>
		";
		$e->output($html);
}

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #3, 18 years, 5 months ago

Ok, now how would I do the following?

Say that if that checkbox is checked, initiate an action contained within a module AFTER THE PAGE IS SAVED.

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xwisdom Reply #4, 18 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: Mark at Nov 07, 2005, 05:24 AM

Ok, now how would I do the following?

Say that if that checkbox is checked, initiate an action contained within a module AFTER THE PAGE IS SAVED.

Well (currentlly) you can’t invoke a module from within the API. But you can include and external php file with the code to be executed. For example you could store parts of the module as an include file.

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #5, 18 years, 5 months ago

Ok, simple enough.So now the question reads:

Say that if that checkbox is checked, initiate an action contained within a php file AFTER THE PAGE IS SAVED.

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xwisdom Reply #6, 18 years, 5 months ago

Give this a try:

case "OnDocFormSave":
	include_once "assets/modules/mymod/file.php";
	if($_POST['someoption']=='1') {
		// do something		
	}
	break;

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #7, 18 years, 5 months ago

How do you call a RTE from within a module?

I tried:

$o = '<div class="MODX_RichTextWidget"><textarea id="ta" name="ta" style="width: 100%; height: 400px">';
$o.= '</textarea></div>';
echo $o;
$modx->invokeEvent("OnRichTextEditorInit",array("ta"));

But to no avail.

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xwisdom Reply #8, 18 years, 5 months ago

you might want to try and fo this:

$replace_richtexteditor = array("ta");
if(is_array($replace_richtexteditor)) {
	// invoke OnRichTextEditorInit event
	$evtOut = $modx->invokeEvent("OnRichTextEditorInit",
									array(
										editor 		=> $modx->config['which_editor'],
										elements	=> $replace_richtexteditor
									));
	if(is_array($evtOut)) echo implode("",$evtOut);				
}

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MARKSVIRTUALDESK Reply #9, 18 years, 5 months ago

I get the following error with that code:

Use of undefined constant elements - assumed ’elements’

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xwisdom Reply #10, 18 years, 5 months ago

Change to:

	$evtOut = $modx->invokeEvent("OnRichTextEditorInit",
									array(
										'editor' 		=> $modx->config['which_editor'],
										'elements'	=> $replace_richtexteditor
									));

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