Solved: I need advice on Smarty usage in manager templates

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pepebe Reply #1, 12 years, 7 months ago

As I understand it, MODX is using smarty like syntax in manager templates.

Example: manager/assets/modext/widgets/core/modx.combo.js line 224

        ,tpl: new Ext.XTemplate(
             '<tpl for=".">'
            ,'  <div class="x-combo-list-item">'
            ,'      <span style="font-weight: bold">{templatename}</span>'
            ,'      <tpl if="category_name">'
            ,'          - <span style="font-style:italic">{category_name}</span>'
            ,'      </tpl>'
            ,'      <br />{description}'
            ,'  </div>'
            ,'</tpl>'
        )

Now I want to apply some changes to the template combobox.

Stripping tags from the content of {description} would be a good start. The usual smarty syntax (v2+) to do this would look like this:

{$description|strip_tags:true} or {$description|strip_tags}

This doesn't work. Removing the dollar sign doesn't help as well.

Two Questions:
1. I couldn't find any documentation giving advice how to build templates using smarty syntax in MODX. If anyone has a good link for further reading, I would be very happy to learn about it.
2. Can somebody point me to the file where the db is queried for the templates or how I can modify the content of description before it is used by modx.combo.js?

Regards,

pepebe

[ed. note: pepebe last edited this post 12 years, 7 months ago.]

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 12 years, 7 months ago

this isn't smarty-syntax, what you see are Ext.XTemplate - placeholders for the field-values, which are fetched by ajax for example from here:
https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/blob/develop/core/model/modx/processors/element/template/getlist.class.php

this is the path to this processor, for example:

        
,baseParams: {
    action: 'element/template/getlist'
}

you can find some infos about Ext.XTemplate here:
http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/3.4.0/#!/api/Ext.XTemplate-method-constructor [ed. note: Bruno17 last edited this post 12 years, 7 months ago.]

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pepebe Reply #3, 12 years, 7 months ago

Quote from: Bruno17 at Mar 05, 2014, 08:43 AM

this isn't smarty-syntax, what you see are Ext.XTemplate - placeholders for the field-values, which are fetched by ajax for example from here:
https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/blob/develop/core/model/modx/processors/element/template/getlist.class.php

this is the path to this processor, for example:
        
,baseParams: {
    action: 'element/template/getlist'
}
you can find some infos about Ext.XTemplate here:
http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/3.4.0/#!/api/Ext.XTemplate-method-constructor

No wander I didn't make any progress.

The links is also very helpful.

Thanks

pepebe

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pepebe Reply #4, 12 years, 7 months ago

Thanks to Bruno17, the problem has been solved:

,tpl: new Ext.XTemplate(
     '<tpl for=".">'
    ,'  <div class="x-combo-list-item">'
    ,'      <span style="font-weight: bold">{templatename}</span>'
    ,'      <tpl if="category_name">'
    ,'          - <span style="font-style:italic">{category_name}</span>'
    ,'      </tpl>'
    ,'      <br />{description:stripTags}'
    ,'  </div>'
    ,'</tpl>'
)

http://docs.sencha.com/extjs/3.4.0/#!/api/Ext.util.Format

Turns out you can do a lot of things using util.Format.

Nice.

Case closed!

pepebe

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