Does Template Switcher work any more?

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dubbs Reply #1, 17 years, 1 month ago

I am running 0.9.6.3 and trying to reload my page with an alternate template page using an a href button link code is below:

<a href="[~[*id*]~]&template=homepage">link</a>

This is basically attempting to reload the current page with a new template called "homepage"

Currently this does nothing....

Any ideas?

Cheers

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dubbs Reply #2, 17 years, 1 month ago

Scratch this - it works a dream config file was wrong in the plugin.... ;]

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dubbs Reply #3, 17 years, 1 month ago

One quick thing, Is it possible to call into the "template=exampletemplate" where exampletemplate is noted the pageLink details? i.e. [*pagelink*] I want to have something dynamic so that as my site has unique templates per page which are named the same as the pagelink title (i am using SEO friendly URLs). so basically i would want this:

<a href="[~[*id*]~]&template=[*pagelink*]">link</a>

Is this possible?

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sottwell Reply #4, 17 years, 1 month ago

What do you mean by [*pagelink*]? Is this a TV? Do you mean [*pagetitle*] or [*alias*] or [*menutitle*]?

It would be very simple to modify the plugin to use one of those instead of having the template specified in the URL.

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dubbs Reply #5, 17 years, 1 month ago

is [*alias*] the SEO friendly name given to the page? If so that’s the one I am after!

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dubbs Reply #6, 17 years, 1 month ago

[*alias*] works a dream - thanks!

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dubbs Reply #7, 17 years, 1 month ago

Is there anyway to perform a check what page you are viewing and then load a designated template?

i.e.

if [*alias*] == "chickens" then load template == "chickens"

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sottwell Reply #8, 17 years, 1 month ago

Just change how the plugin gets the template name. No need for the ?template=... in the URL in this case. I’ve simply commented out the GET and COOKIE methods and added a line to get the document’s alias.

if(!strstr($modx->documentContent, "donotswitch")) { // this page is not switchable
/**
    if (isset($_GET['template'])) {
        $overrideTemplate = $_GET['template'];
    } else if (isset($_COOKIE['template']) && $usecookie == 'yes') {
        $overrideTemplate = $_COOKIE['template']; 
    } 
**/
    $overrideTemplate = $modx->documentObject['alias'];
    if (isset($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 {
        $this->messageQuit("Error retrieving template.");
      }
      if($usecookie == 'yes') {
        setcookie("template",$overrideTemplate,time()+604800, "/", "", 0);
      }
    }
} // end if page is switchable

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dubbs Reply #9, 17 years, 1 month ago

Thanks Susan,

So what is that section of code actually doing? I dont know any PHP so cant really tell....

I am using the mobile detect script to check whether the user is viewing on a mobile initially and automatically switching the template that clads the page on load, then I have an optout button for users that want to view the full version of the site even if they are deemed to be on a mobile device.

I have some pages in the site which use templates which are not the same name as their alias so i cant use this line of code on all pages:

<a href="[~[*id*]~]&template=[*alias*]">link</a>

I need some way of saying on the a href if you are viewing page A then load template Template A etx, if you are viewing page B then load Template A etx...

Is that possible?

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sottwell Reply #10, 17 years, 1 month ago

This is sounding more like you just need to assign your pages to the proper templates in the first place. Are the templates really so different? Or is it just a matter of different colors or background images, or different content in the sidebars?

When using the plugin, any page you want to assign a template to and not have it change, just put an HTML comment in it somewhere

<!-- donotchange -->

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