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eForm and file binding

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    cipa Reply #1, 17 years, 3 months ago
    HI,

    Is it possible to do something like  &tpl=`@FILE:assets/templates/lcm/chunks/risk-form.html` in eform
    Are there alternatives?

    [!eForm? &formid=`risk` &to=`` &tpl=`@FILE:assets/templates/lcm/chunks/risk-form.html` &report=`risk-form-report` &thankyou=`risk-form-thanks`!]


    Thank you
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      Eoler Reply #2, 17 years, 3 months ago
      Quote from: Cipa at Jun 19, 2009, 11:23 AM

      Is it possible to do something like &tpl=`@FILE:assets/templates/lcm/chunks/risk-form.html` in eform

      Change eform.inc.php around line 1052 to:
        } elseif ($key) {
    $fpos = strpos($key, '@FILE');
    if ($fpos !== false) { //Eol: get from file
      $tpl = file_get_contents($modx->config['base_path'].trim(substr($key, $fpos+5)));
    } else {
      $tpl = ($doc=$modx->getChunk($key)) ? $doc : false;
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        cipa Reply #3, 17 years ago
        Hi,

        Shouldn’t this change be made in the last eForm?
        I see that the latest version uses the same code. No @FILE

        Thx
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          exside Reply #4, 16 years, 7 months ago
          Hi,

          tried your (very interesting) solution but couldn’t get it to work... I have the following function in the eform.inc.php, already with your code but not sure if it’s implemented right...

          When I try it as above with a eForm Call like:

          [!eForm? &formid=`tell_form` &subject=`Tell Tickets` &from=`mailaddrfrom` &to=`mailaddrto` &sendAsHTML=`1` &tpl=`@FILE:assets/templates/.../forms/tell/tell-tpl.html` &report=`@FILE:assets/templates/.../forms/tell/tell-email.html` &thankyou=`@FILE:assets/templates/.../forms/tell/tell-thanks.html`!]



          it just says: @FILE:assets/templates/capitalfm/forms/tell/tell-tpl.html

          where the form would be...seems to be broken somewhere but I don’t see it^^

          	function efLoadTemplate($key){
		global $modx;
		if( strlen($key)>50 ) return $key;
		$tpl = false;
		if( is_numeric($key) ) { //get from document id
			//try unpublished docs first
			$tpl = ( $doc=$modx->getDocument($key,'content',0) )? $doc['content'] :false;
			if(!$tpl )
				$tpl = ( $doc=$modx->getDocument($key,'content',1) )? $doc['content'] : false;

		} elseif ($key) {
			//Mod to read template chunks out of external files per @FILE
			$fpos = strpos($key, '@FILE');
			if ($fpos !== false) { //Eol: get from file
				$tpl = file_get_contents($modx->config['base_path'].trim(substr($key, $fpos+5)));
			} else {
				$tpl = ($doc=$modx->getChunk($key)) ? $doc : false;
			}
		//elseif( $key ){
			//$tpl = ( $doc=$modx->getChunk($key) )? $doc : false;
			
			//try snippet if chunk is not found
			if(!$tpl) $tpl = ( $doc=$modx->runSnippet($key) )? $doc : false;
		}
		return $tpl;
	}


          thanks for any help!

          EDIT: I think it’s something around the last few lines after the commented-out //elseif the last } should somehow be commented out too but when I do it I get a syntax error...tried different things but I dont get it =/
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            cipa Reply #5, 16 years, 7 months ago
            Try this
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              exside Reply #6, 16 years, 7 months ago
              =), thanks...but I came from this blog/article, there is the link to this post...I’m searching a simpler solution, not one where I have to make 3 Snippets additional to the two snippet calls I already make...I think the solution in the blog is nice when you have only one or two forms...but I have 20-100 forms and then creation is a pain in the ass, so I’m thinking about making a form-generator which generates the chunks and saves them in .html files which I call in the eForm snippet call...that’s the idea =)... but I failed already on the first step... trying to access external .html files in a simple way =/
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                Eoler Reply #7, 16 years, 7 months ago
                Quote from: lluuuk at Feb 22, 2010, 12:42 AM

                EDIT: I think it’s something around the last few lines after the commented-out //elseif the last } should somehow be commented out too but when I do it I get a syntax error...tried different things but I dont get it =/

                There’s no commented out elseif in the latest eForm source...
                Try replacing whole function with:
                	function efLoadTemplate($key){
		global $modx;
		if( strlen($key)>50 ) return $key;
		$tpl = false;
		if( is_numeric($key) ) { //get from document id
			//try unpublished docs first
			$tpl = ( $doc=$modx->getDocument($key,'content',0) )? $doc['content'] :false;
			if(!$tpl )
				$tpl = ( $doc=$modx->getDocument($key,'content',1) )? $doc['content'] : false;

		}elseif( $key ){
    $fpos = strpos($key, '@FILE');
    if ($fpos !== false) { //Eol: get from file
      $tpl = file_get_contents($modx->config['base_path'].trim(substr($key, $fpos+5)));
    } else {
			$tpl = ( $doc=$modx->getChunk($key) )? $doc : false;
      if (!$tpl) //try snippet if chunk is not found
        $tpl = ($doc=$modx->runSnippet($key)) ? $doc : false;
    }
		}
		return $tpl;
	}
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                  exside Reply #8, 16 years, 7 months ago
                  yep, I commented it out because I thought your function would be a replacement for the existing elseif {...I’ll try your code later =), thanks!