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nested template not working

Post by progster » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:43 pm

Hi there,

we're trying to move joomlaboards templating engine to patTemplate, but I've ran into a problem. I'm using an oddEven type template for alternating rows. So far everything works, now within each sub (_odd and _even) I'd like to check for another variable and this just doesn't work for some reason. Anybody care to enlighten me? The code is included below:

forum_flatview.xml

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<patTemplate:tmpl name="jb-forum-flatview">
	<table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" width="100%" class="contentpane" style="text-align: left;">
	<tr>
	
		<td class="sectiontableheader" width="5%"> </td>
 		<td class="sectiontableheader" width="5%" align="center"> </td>
		<td class="sectiontableheader" width="5%" align="center"> </td>
		<td class="sectiontableheader" width="30%"align="center"><strong>{GEN_TOPICS}</strong></td>
		<td class="sectiontableheader" width="5%" align="center"><strong>{GEN_REPLIES}</strong></td>
		<td class="sectiontableheader" width="5%" align="center"><strong>{GEN_HITS}</strong></td>
		<td class="sectiontableheader" width="20%" align="center"><strong>{GEN_AUTHOR}</strong></td>
		<td class="sectiontableheader" width="25%" align="center" colspan="2"><strong>{GEN_LAST_POST}</strong></td>
	</tr>
	<patTemplate:tmpl name="jb-forum-flatview-row" type="oddeven">
		<patTemplate:sub condition="__odd">
			<tr class="sectiontableentry1">
				<patTemplate:tmpl type="condition" conditionvar="jb-forum-flatview-row.newposts">
			    		<patTemplate:sub condition="1">
						<td width="5%">{UNREAD}</td>
			    		</patTemplate:sub>
					<patTemplate:sub condition="0">
						<td width="5%">{READ}</td>	
					</patTemplate:sub>
				</patTemplate:tmpl>
				<td width="4%"  align="center">{TOPICTYPE}</td>
				<td width="4%"  align="center"><img src="{TOPICEMOTICON}" alt="topic emoticon" /></td>
				<td width="30%" align="center">{SUBJECT}</td>
				<td width="5%"  align="center">{REPLIES}</td>
				<td width="5%"  align="center">{HITS}</td>
				<td width="20%"  align="center">{AUTHOR}</td>
				<td width="25%"  align="center">
					<small>{LASTPOSTTIME}</small><br />
					<small>{GEN_BY} {LASTPOSTAUTHOR}</small>
				</td>
				<td width="2%" align="center"><a href="{LASTPOSTURL}">{LASTPOSTIMG}</a></td>
			</tr>
		</patTemplate:sub>
		<patTemplate:sub condition="__even">
			<tr class="sectiontableentry2">
						<patTemplate:tmpl type="condition" conditionvar="jb-forum-flatview-row.newposts">
			    		<patTemplate:sub condition="1">
						<td width="5%">{UNREAD}</td>
			    		</patTemplate:sub>
					<patTemplate:sub condition="__default">
						<td width="5%">{READ}</td>	
					</patTemplate:sub>
				</patTemplate:tmpl>
				<td width="4%"  align="center">{TOPICTYPE}</td>
				<td width="4%"  align="center"><img src="{TOPICEMOTICON}" alt="topic emoticon" /></td>
				<td width="30%" align="center">{SUBJECT}</td>
				<td width="5%"  align="center">{REPLIES}</td>
				<td width="5%"  align="center">{HITS}</td>
				<td width="20%"  align="center">{AUTHOR}</td>
				<td width="25%"  align="center">
					<small>{LASTPOSTTIME}</small><br />
					<small>{GEN_BY} {LASTPOSTAUTHOR}</small>
				</td>
				<td width="2%" align="center"><a href="{LASTPOSTURL}">{LASTPOSTIMG}</a></td>
			</tr>
		</patTemplate:sub>
	</patTemplate:tmpl>
	</table>
</patTemplate:tmpl>
Code feeding the template:

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$arr_jb_rows=array();
$int_jb_counter=0;
foreach ($arr_jb_messages as $obj_jb_message) {
	$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]['topictype']=jb_get_topic_type($obj_jb_message);
	$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]['topicemoticon']=$topic_emoticons[$obj_jb_message->topic_emoticon];
	$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]['newposts']=0;
	if ($obj_jb_message->locked!=1) {
		if ($sbConfig['showNew'] && $my->id !=0 && ! $obj_jb_message->moved)
			if (($prevCheck<$obj_jb_message->lastpost && (!in_array($obj_jb_message->id, $read_topics) || $read_topics[$obj_jb_message->id]<$obj_jb_message->lastpost)))
				$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]['newposts']=1;		
		if ($sbConfig["allowemail"]==1) 
			$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]['author']='<a href="mailto:'. $obj_jb_message->email . '" >'.		
		$obj_jb_message->name.'</a>';
		else
			$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]['author']=$obj_jb_message->name;				
		$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]['hits']=$obj_jb_message->hits;
		$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]['replies']=$obj_jb_message->replies;
		$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]['lastposttime']=$last_reply[$obj_jb_message->id]->time;
		$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]["lastpostauthor"]=$last_reply[$obj_jb_message->id]->name;
		$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]["lastposturl"]=sefRelToAbs($sbs2.'&func=view&catid='.$catid.'&getlast=1&id='.$last_reply[$obj_jb_message->id]->id).'#'.$last_reply[$obj_jb_message->id]->id;
		$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]["subject"]='<a href="'.sefRelToAbs($sbs2.'&func=view&id='.$obj_jb_message->id.'&catid='.$catid).'">'.$obj_jb_message->subject.'</a>';
		if ($obj_jb_message->replies+1 > $sbConfig['messages_per_page'])
			$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]["subject"].='<br />'.jb_generate_pagelist($obj_jb_message);
	}
	else {
		$newURL='';
		$database->setQuery("SELECT `message` FROM #__sb_messages_text WHERE `mesid`='".$obj_jb_message->id."'");
		$newURL=$database->loadResult();
		$arr_jb_rows[$int_jb_counter]["subject"]='<a href="'.sefRelToAbs($sbs2.'&func=view&'.$newURL).'">'.	
											$obj_jb_message->subject.'</a>';
	}
	$int_jb_counter++;
}	
$jb_unread=$sbIcons['unreadmessage'] ? '<img src="'.$mls.'/modules/mod_sbicons/'.$sbIcons['unreadmessage'].'" border="0" alt="'._GEN_UNREAD.'" title="'._GEN_UNREAD.'"/>' : '<span class="sb_new">'.$sbConfig['newChar'].'</span>';
	$jb_read=$sbIcons['readmessage'] ? '<img src="'.$mls.'/modules/mod_sbicons/'.$sbIcons['readmessage'].'" border="0" alt="'._GEN_NOUNREAD.'" title="'._GEN_NOUNREAD.'"/>' : '<span class="sb_notnew">'.$sbConfig['newChar'].'</span>';
	$str_lastreply=$sbConfig['latestpost'] ? '<img src="'.$mls.'/modules/mod_sbicons/'.$sbIcons['latestpost'].'" border="0" alt="'._SHOW_LAST.'" />' : '  <img src="'.$sbs.'/emoticons/icon_newest_reply.gif" border="0"  width="18" height="9" alt="'._SHOW_LAST.'" title="'._SHOW_LAST.'" />';
	$obj_jb_tmpl->readTemplatesFromFile( "forum_flatview.html" );
	$obj_jb_tmpl->addVar('jb-forum-flatview','GEN_TOPICS',_GEN_TOPICS);
	$obj_jb_tmpl->addVar('jb-forum-flatview','GEN_REPLIES',_GEN_REPLIES);
	$obj_jb_tmpl->addVar('jb-forum-flatview','GEN_HITS',_GEN_HITS);
	$obj_jb_tmpl->addVar('jb-forum-flatview','GEN_AUTHOR',_GEN_AUTHOR);
	$obj_jb_tmpl->addVar('jb-forum-flatview','GEN_LAST_POST',_GEN_LAST_POST);
	$obj_jb_tmpl->addVar('jb-forum-flatview-row','GEN_BY',_GEN_BY);	
	$obj_jb_tmpl->addVar('jb-forum-flatview-row','READ',$jb_read);
	$obj_jb_tmpl->addVar('jb-forum-flatview-row','UNREAD',$jb_unread);
	$obj_jb_tmpl->addVar('jb-forum-flatview-row','LASTPOSTIMG',$str_lastreply);
	$obj_jb_tmpl->addRows( "jb-forum-flatview-row",$arr_jb_rows);
	$obj_jb_tmpl->displayParsedTemplate('jb-forum-flatview');
Ps: don't mind the ugly code, lot of legacy in there  :(
Last edited by progster on Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: nested template not working

Post by Narcissus » Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:43 am

Although I haven't really looked at your code, here's something that I found necessary sometimes: if trying to access 'subtemplates' in a fom, I found that I needed to explicitly call the loadTemplate on the parent template.

Anyway, try calling something like:
$tmpl->loadTemplate('body');

in your code. Generally, that one line (after loading the HTML file by setting the 'src' attribute) has always fixed my subtemplating issues. However, you might need to replace 'body' with the name of your 'parent' template...

Just a thought, anyway.
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Re: nested template not working

Post by dknight » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:10 am

In my experience, you need to explicitly pass the variable to the subtemplate, ie

[php]
$obj_jb_tmpl->addVar('jb-form-newpost','newposts',$newpost_conditionvar_value_here);
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		<patTemplate:tmpl name="jb-forum-newpost" type="condition" conditionvar="newposts">
			<patTemplate:sub condition="1">
				<td width="5%">{UNREAD}</td>
			</patTemplate:sub>
			<patTemplate:sub condition="0">
				<td width="5%">{READ}</td>
			</patTemplate:sub>
		</patTemplate:tmpl>
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Re: nested template not working

Post by progster » Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:14 pm

yeah, but the value is different for each row... how would I go about doing that?
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Re: nested template not working

Post by Alejo » Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:02 pm

progster wrote: yeah, but the value is different for each row... how would I go about doing that?
Try using the varscope attribute in the subtemplate, like this:

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<patTemplate:tmpl type="condition" conditionvar="jb-forum-flatview-row.newposts" varscope="jb-forum-flatview-row">
This way you can still address the parent row template and all variables are available to the subtemplate. Does it work?
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Re: nested template not working

Post by progster » Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:10 pm

Alejo: I'll try that, thanks!
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Re: nested template not working

Post by pollen8 » Mon Jul 10, 2006 3:57 pm

also check out the predefined pattemplate variables, theres one for odd/even which will allow you to cut out duplicating the html for odd/even rows:

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<tr class="oddrow{PAT_IS_EVEN}">
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Re: nested template not working

Post by progster » Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:51 am

a bit late, but as others may be interested, the solution suggested above works!
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