loadTemplate in another view

[crazycoders]

I have a component i'm building that layouts information in different ways depending on the user's selection in the component settings:

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		<param type="list" name="events_layout" label="Events layout">
			<option value="1">Calendar grid</option>
			<option value="2">Result list</option>
			<option value="3">Task list</option>			
		</param>

This layout option is not a "layout" per say for joomla. I did it this way so that users may default the way operations load when following a link or if users want a different display to be shown from a configurable form.

The problem is not really there because this works perfectly fine.

My question is, i've got the following views:

- events
- results
- teamcal
- teamresults

Which all displays pretty much the same information. If you look at the template folder for each of these views there are approximately 11 layout files ranging from default.php to default_calgrid_item_result.php. Now, if i had only one view or 2, changing information in each of the template files wouldn't be too long. But now i've got 4 and nothing says i won't have more later.

If i have a global change to do in one of the item files (2 types: results, events multiplied by 3 layouts: calendar, grid, tasklist multiplied by number of views) it gets long to change each file, remember to upload, change the repository.

So finaly, my question is pretty simple...

Can i create somekind of dummy view that contains the templates i want to load such as:

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$CalendarEngine = new JoomsportViewCalendarEngine();
echo $CalendarEngine->loadTemplate('calgrid_header_events');

Or anything similar that will allow me to put all changes to the calendar engine in one place. Another problem with this multiple repeated files is that people trying to extend the templates for their own skin will find it tedious to do it so many times.

Thanks

[secteur]

Hi,

If I understand you correctly, I think the following should work:

Have your layouts in one of the views only (let's say results)
In your other views, before calling $this->loadTemplate( ), insert the path to your templates (the path from the results view)

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class JoomsportViewEvents extends JView {
 function display()
 {
  $this->addTemplatePath( JPATH_ROOT . DS . 'administrator' . DS . 'components' . DS . 'com_joomsport' . DS . 'views' . DS . 'results' . DS . 'tmpl' );
  $this->setLayout( 'calgrid' );
  echo $this->loadTemplate( 'header_events' );
 }
}

The above would load the calgrid_header_events layout which is in the results view.
You should not have the same layouts in the other views' "tmpl" folders though I think, otherwise there might be conflicts.

Hope this helps.

[crazycoders]

Great, i'll test that out.

Peace man!

[crazycoders]

Finaly had time to test it out. it Works Mighty fine. I will keep that in my favorites!