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Any way to make the same chunk work both for placeholder / resource fields?

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    sladdals Reply #1, 9 years ago
    I have a chunk of a buyButton and I want to use it both for resource template and inside the template/chunk used for getResources output

    At the moment the only difference is an asterisk:

    Product template:
    <form action="[[~[[*resource_id]]? &scheme=`abs`]]" method="post">                        
    <input type="hidden" name="shk-id" value="[[*id]]" />
    <input type="hidden" name="shk-name" value="[[*pagetitle]]" />
    <input type="hidden" name="shk-catalog" value="2" />
    <input type="hidden" name="shk-count" value="1" />    
    <div class="shs-price">
            <span class="shk-price">[[*price:num_format]]</span>
            <button type="submit" name="shk-submit" class="small shk-but shk-buy">Buy</button>
    </div>        
</form>



    getResources chunk
    <form action="[[~[[+resource_id]]? &scheme=`abs`]]" method="post">                        
    <input type="hidden" name="shk-id" value="[[+id]]" />
    <input type="hidden" name="shk-name" value="[[+pagetitle]]" />
    <input type="hidden" name="shk-catalog" value="2" />
    <input type="hidden" name="shk-count" value="1" />    
    <div class="shs-price">
            <span class="shk-price">[[+price:num_format]]</span>
            <button type="submit" name="shk-submit" class="small shk-but shk-buy">Buy</button>
    </div>        
</form>


    Later on I plan to add some extra functionality to the button and I need to have it in one place. Any suggestion how can I do this?

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      chris.dempsey78 Reply #2, 9 years ago
      Something along the lines of this?

      [[~[[+resource_id:default=`[[*resource_id]]`]]?...

      Untested and badly formatted I'm using a phone but you get the idea with the default output modifier.
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        sladdals Reply #3, 9 years ago
        Quote from: chris.dempsey78 at May 12, 2015, 06:10 PM
        Something along the lines of this?

        [[~[[+resource_id:default=`[[*resource_id]]`]]?...

        Untested and badly formatted I'm using a phone but you get the idea with the default output modifier.

        Good idea, thank you! Though not able to use it as I will need some filtering later (e.g
        [[+price:gte=`[[++cfg.minPriceGift]]`:then=`<input type="hidden" name="giftOption__[[+id]]__add" value="GIFT PLEASE" />`]])

        Solved it for now by replacing asterisk for the whole chunk:
        [[$buyButton:replace=`+==*`]]

        Not the best practice also.))



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          BobRay Reply #4, 9 years ago
          Why not just have two separate chunks? Otherwise, you're going to slow down page loads just to avoid having one more small chunk.
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            sladdals Reply #5, 8 years, 11 months ago
            Quote from: BobRay at May 14, 2015, 08:17 PM
            Why not just have two separate chunks? Otherwise, you're going to slow down page loads just to avoid having one more small chunk.
            The idea is to have the content similar for both catalog and product pages. Having 2 chunks instead of 1 and implementing the changes to the 1 chunk I will always have to remember that I have to change another chunk...
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              BobRay Reply #6, 8 years, 11 months ago
              It's kind of a funky solution, but you could use two chunks with similar names and use a plugin connected to OnChunkFormSave that saved the alternate chunk after converting the asterisk to a + with str_replace().

              Another option might be to use a + sign in the chunk, and a plugin attached to OnWebPagePrerender that converted it to an asterisk with str_replace() only if the catalog page was being rendered.

              It seems like there should be an easier solution, but I can't think of one.

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                Bruno17 Reply #7, 8 years, 11 months ago
                In your product-template, you could use a getResources-call and get only that one resource

                or

                you could try to use renderResources to get the list
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