Bug in patTemplate.php?

[musicones]

Hi,

after I've changed my project to use Jfactory I get following error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in D:\Entwicklung\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\joomla11SVN\libraries\pattemplate\patTemplate.php on line 242

Have I done something wrong in calling patTemplate, or is this a bug?

regards
musicones

[alwarren]

I haven't tried patTemplate with SVN yet. What version of Joomla are you trying to use patTemplate with?

[musicones]

Hi alwarren,

I always use latest JoomlaSVN Version, like I have written in last Thread "Difference of patTemplate in 1.1"
Since they have changed to Jfactory I can't use it anymore.

regards
musicones

[alwarren]

There seems to be a considerable amount of working going on around patTemplate in svn 1.1. I've been unable to get it to work using current (1.0.3) methods. Guess we'll have to wait until the devs are finished and we get word to test things.

[alwarren]

I've been able to get patTemplates to work with v1.1 Alpha. I took another look at the v1.1 patTemplate setup. The problem with getting patTemplate to work was with the J! template namespace. In JFactory::_createPatTemplate(), they set the namespace to jos but in the template files it's still mos. A temporary workaround is to add the mos namespace to your template object. I created a function to handle that. Here's the function I used:

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	function addNamespace(&$tmpl, $name) {
		$namespace = $tmpl->getNamespace;
		if ( is_array($namespace) ) {
			$namespace[] = $name;
		} else {
			$namespace = array($namespace, $name);
		}
		$tmpl->setNamespace($namespace);
		return;
	}

I call the addNamespace function in my createTemplate function:

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	function &createTemplate($option) {
		global $mosConfig_absolute_path;

		$tmpl =& JFactory::_createPatTemplate();
		$tmpl->setRoot( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/tmpl' );
		$options = array(
						'output-xhtml' => true,
						'clean'           => true
						);
		$tmpl->applyOutputFilter( 'Tidy', $options );
		$tmpl->useTemplateCache( 'File', array(
											'cacheFolder' => dirname(__FILE__) . '/tmpl/tmplCache',
											'lifetime' => 'auto' )
											);
		HTML_ectrader::addNamespace($tmpl, 'mos');
		return $tmpl;
	}

This method seemed to work ok. But once they change the namespace in the J! template files to jos, the easiest thing to do would be to change the namespace in your template files from mos: to jos:.

I think  there may have been some confusion about the setNamespace function. The function doesn't change the namespace of existing template code. That is, mos: is still mos: as far as the reader is concerned. setNamespace only determines which namespace is parsed as a patTemplate token. Then if you use setNamespace to add a namespace mos:, it tells the reader to use both jos: and mos: when parsing template files.