OnDocFormPrerender plugin no longer sets query string

I had a pretty sweet plugin working in version 2.1.3 and earlier. It would pre-set the template for new resources based on certain conditions. It looked basically like this:



When the inner snippet returned a template number, the new resource would automagically load that template because "&template=28" (or whatever template ID number it happens to be) was automagically appended to the query string.

Combined with template-based FC rules, this was an important part of my master plan for taking over the world.

This worked in 2.1.3 either on the "OnDocFormPrerender" OR the "OnDocFormRender" events.

It doesn't seem to work at all in 2.2.0-pl2, and it is RUINING MY LIFE.

Have the behaviors of these system events changed? Or the way MODX deals with the REQUEST array? Or how it writes the query string?

I will cry myself to sleep if I can't get this plugin working.

For security, that stuff is no longer in the $_GET array.

I'm not sure what it is now, but try this:



or this





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I can still get the parent with my original code ($_REQUEST['parent']).

The problem I'm having is that I cannot *set* the template value anymore with
$_REQUEST['template'] = $tpl;

I'll dig a little deeper into the code and see if I can figure it out.

Sorry, I missed that. Looking at the resource/update processor code, this should be it:




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Turns out it is a lot more complicated. From my experiments, the OnDocFormPrerender event is no longer in the right place within the chain of events to make this happen. I tried OnDocFormRender, OnBeforeManagerPageInit,and OnManagerPageInit, each with the several different approaches to setting the template, and none of them worked.

I was ultimately able to recreate the plugin by making the following changes:

• changing the event to OnHandleRequest
• changing the "if $mode == 'new'" to "if ($_REQUEST['a'] == 47)"
• changing "$_REQUEST['template'] = $tpl;" to "$_GET['template'] = $tpl;"

I figured this out by working my way through several of the class files, looking at where the various events fire and where the properties are set (line 111 of modmanagerresponse.class.php).

The new code works in 2.2, but not 2.1.3, and the old code works in 2.1.3 but not 2.2. As long as it works, I guess I don't care.

Glad you got it worked out. You can check the MODX version if you want to make the code more generic.


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Quote from: BobRay at Mar 14, 2012, 06:04 PM

You can check the MODX version if you want to make the code more generic.

That's a great idea, thanks.

FYI, I posted a blog today about what I am doing with this plugin.
http://www.cmslesstraveled.com/index/archive/2012/setting-templates-automatically.html

From the book:




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PLEASE, PLEASE specify the version of MODX you are using . . . PLEASE!
MODX info for everyone: http://bobsguides.com/modx.html