Support/Comments for TemplateSwitcher plugin

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scraf Reply #1, 17 years, 8 months ago

This is the first time I have used a plug-in, so I fully expect user error to be the cause of this one, but can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

My goal is to for the user to be able to switch templates when viewing my site, similar to "zen garden", although not as pretty.

I have tried to implement sottwell’s TemplateSwitcher plug-in.

// add template=templatename to the URL

So I have added to the default index page.

<a href="[~1~]?template=default">default</a><br />
<a href="[~1~]?template=scraf01">text only</a>

scraf01 being the name of a template with no css file.

Clicking on "text only" gives http://www.scraf.nl/index.php?id=1&refurl=%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D1%3Ftemplate%3Dscraf01&err=1

If I turn on friendly url’s I get
http://www.scraf.nl/minimal-base.html?template=scraf01

huh

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sottwell Reply #2, 17 years, 8 months ago

If you don’t have friendly urls on, [~1~] will resolve to "index.php?id=1", so you have to use &template= instead.

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scraf Reply #3, 17 years, 8 months ago

Ok, thanks, fixed that, but still not getting any template changes.

http://www.scraf.nl ( http://www.scraf.nl/index.php?id=1&template=default )
http://www.scraf.nl/index.php?id=1&template=scraf01

???

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scraf Reply #4, 17 years, 8 months ago

[FIXED] Page was getting cached, so the parser wasn’t looking at the templates. ( thanks to sottwell for looking into it for me )

Possible fix for this in the pipeline.

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persepolis Reply #5, 17 years, 8 months ago

Here is my templateswitcher code (in german), but I think you can reveal the main idea:

$sideIid is the id of the current document
$id is the id of the template

Please note, that all variables must be defined in both templates.

<?php

$id = $_REQUEST['id'];
$sideId = $_REQUEST['sideId'];

if (!isset($id) || empty($id))
{   echo 'Keine Auswahl getroffen';
    return;
}

$path = "../../";

include_once $path . "manager/includes/config.inc.php";
include_once $path . 'manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php';
include_once $path . "manager/processors/cache_sync.class.processor.php";

$modx = new DocumentParser();

$table = $modx->getFullTableName('site_content');
$temptable = $modx->getFullTableName('site_templates');

$sql = 'update modx_site_content set template=' . $id;
$modx->db->query($sql);

$sync = new synccache();
$sync->setCachepath($path . "assets/cache/");
$sync->setReport(false);
@$sync->emptyCache();

if (isset($sideId))
{   $modx->sendRedirect($path . "index.php?id=" . $sideId);
    return;
}

$displayName = $modx->db->getValue("select templatename from $temptable where id=$id");
echo "Menü auf <b>$displayName</b> geändert.<br>"
     . "<p>Bitte den Zurück-Button benutzen"
     . "<p><b> gegebenfalls Seite neu laden (Taste F5)</b>";

return;

?>