[solved] How to have the child template default different from the parent

4,205 Posts

dev_cw Reply #1, 18 years, 9 months ago

I guess that I could do this by modifying the InheritParentTemplate plugin but I was not successful. This is what I got, I added an check to identify the parent id by a constant value, otherwise the pluging should continue to work as before. In this case the container I want to set the default template for is id 12:

<?php
global $content;
$e = &$modx->Event;

switch($e->name) {
  case 'OnDocFormPrerender':
    if(($_REQUEST['pid'] > 0) && ($id == 0)) {
    	if($_REQUEST['pid'] == 12) { 
    		$content['template'] = "template name";
    	}
      	elseif ($parent = $modx->getPageInfo($_REQUEST['pid'],0,'template')) {
        	$content['template'] = $parent['template'];
      	}
    }
    break;

  default:
    return;
    break;
}
?>

Anyone spot why this is not working?

[font=Verdana]Shane Sponagle | [wiki] Snippet Call Anatomy | MODx Developer Blog | [nettuts] Working With a Content Management Framework: MODx

Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is.
Do you, Mr. Jones? - [bob dylan]

4,205 Posts

dev_cw Reply #2, 18 years, 9 months ago

I found the problem, I need the template id not the template name. Now it works perfect. I wonder if I could use an array of container IDs to cover multiple containers.

[font=Verdana]Shane Sponagle | [wiki] Snippet Call Anatomy | MODx Developer Blog | [nettuts] Working With a Content Management Framework: MODx

Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is.
Do you, Mr. Jones? - [bob dylan]

4,205 Posts

dev_cw Reply #3, 18 years, 9 months ago

Ok, just to finish up I added an array to be able to set multiple parents to have custom template.

<?php
global $content;
$e = &$modx->Event;
$containers = array(1,2,3); // container IDs for custom template
$custom_tpl = 12; //custom template ID

switch($e->name) {
  case 'OnDocFormPrerender':
    if(($_REQUEST['pid'] > 0) && ($id == 0)) {
    	if(in_array($_REQUEST['pid'], $containers)) { 
    		$content['template'] = $custom_tpl;
    	}
      	elseif ($parent = $modx->getPageInfo($_REQUEST['pid'],0,'template')) {
        	$content['template'] = $parent['template'];
      	}
    }
    break;

  default:
    return;
    break;
}
?>

[font=Verdana]Shane Sponagle | [wiki] Snippet Call Anatomy | MODx Developer Blog | [nettuts] Working With a Content Management Framework: MODx

Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is.
Do you, Mr. Jones? - [bob dylan]

4,205 Posts

dev_cw Reply #4, 18 years, 9 months ago

I wonder if I could use the "Plugin Configuration" panel to set the array and custom template variables rather than setting it directly in the code?

[font=Verdana]Shane Sponagle | [wiki] Snippet Call Anatomy | MODx Developer Blog | [nettuts] Working With a Content Management Framework: MODx

Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is.
Do you, Mr. Jones? - [bob dylan]