Create simple template package

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sottwell Reply #1, 12 years, 9 months ago

What is the best way to create a simple template package? Just to have templates, chunks, TVs, resources, and the templates' support files.

I've had some success using MyComponent, but that likes to put all files into assets/components/templatename, and I want the files to be installed into assets/templates/templatename, assets/images and assets/js.

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 12 years, 9 months ago

Not sure about this and didn't try it,
but I think, you can have additional sources and targets in the build-script-template with MyComponent

by adding modified versions of this part:

    /* This section transfers every file in the local
       mycomponents/mycomponent/assets directory to the
       target site's assets/mycomponent directory on install.
     */

    if ($hasAssets && $i == 1) {
        $helper->sendLog(MODX::LOG_LEVEL_INFO,
        $modx->lexicon('mc_packaged_assets_files'));
        $vehicle->resolve('file', array(
                                       'source' => $sources['source_assets'],
                                       'target' => "return MODX_ASSETS_PATH . 'components/';",
                                  ));
    }

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sottwell Reply #3, 12 years, 9 months ago

What it really needs to be able to do is to allow arbitrary file sources, then have the target be equal to the source_assets. For example, specify as file source to be "assets/images, assets/js, assets/templates/mytemplate", and the target will be the same, creating the directories if necessary.

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BobRay Reply #4, 12 years, 9 months ago

MC already allows specifying file names, it should be possible for me to add a little code to let the user give a full path to the file.

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sottwell Reply #5, 12 years, 9 months ago

I've been looking at the code, but so far all I've accomplished is a headache.

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sottwell Reply #6, 12 years, 9 months ago

I am still horribly confused with MyComponent. Where do I have to put my files (.css, .js, images) in the MyComponents structure to get them packaged so that they will be installed in assets/components/whatever/ ?

I will have three subdirectories:

whatever/css
whatever/js
whatever/images

My package is "whatever".

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BobRay Reply #7, 12 years, 9 months ago

If you specified the assets stuff in the config file, the directories should already be there (and possibly skeleton files).

They would be at:

assets/mycomponents/whatever/assets/components/whatever/css/
assets/mycomponents/whatever/assets/components/whatever/js/
assets/mycomponents/whatever/assets/components/whatever/images/

On installation, they will automatically go to

assets/components/whatever/css/
assets/components/whatever/js/
assets/components/whatever/images/

The more generic answer is that everything in this directory:

assets/mycomponents/whatever/assets/

will get transferred on install to

assets/

and everything in

assets/mycomponents/whatever/core/

will get transferred on install to

core/

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sottwell Reply #8, 12 years, 9 months ago

Ah! Finally I think I've got it! Thank you!

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BobRay Reply #9, 12 years, 9 months ago

I used to get confused about it all the time. Eventually, it kind of makes sense. wink

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