content plugin in the category display.

rottenberg
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11 years 11 months ago #32180 by rottenberg

content plugin in the category display. was created by rottenberg

Hello,
I try to use a content plugin (admiror frame). this plugin add an elegant frame around what's you want.

No problem to use it for each field (I have activated content plugin in category view) for selected fields.

But I want to frame the complete article.

the syntax of the text is {AF}yourtext...{/AF}

In the category_item_html5.php template
I have added {FA} before each <li...> tag and {/FA} after each </li> tag.

the plugin is not interpreted.
Is it possible to use content plugins in this case ?

thank's for help
best regards
Michel

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11 years 11 months ago #32181 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic content plugin in the category display.

Hello,

-- Content plugins are not trigger globally like system plugins, they are trigger inside Joomla's article descriptions , and of course selectively in FC fields

Despite this being general Joomla related topic we have a FAQ article for exactly this:

Triggering Contents Plugins to create a customized layout of your fields, to e.g. Sliders or Tabs/ render a google maps plugin /etc

BUT you will need to capture all output in a variable

Code:

<?php ob_start(); ?>
... HTML and PHP code of your template
<?php
// done with the requested template; get the buffer and clear it.
$captured_html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
?>

then use variable $captured_html as described in the FAQ article.

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11 years 11 months ago #32183 by rottenberg

Replied by rottenberg on topic content plugin in the category display.

thank you very much

I'm modifying my template.
Just a question with the text of the FAQ :

Its written :

Code:

// STEP 3. Prepare other properties of the object c, so that it looks like a Joomla article object
$c->title = $this->item->title;
...
$c->state = $this->item->state;
$c->state = $this->item->state;

Why is '$c->state = $this->item->state;' given twice ?
Isn't it another field than $c->state for the second line ?

best regards
Michel

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11 years 11 months ago #32185 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic content plugin in the category display.

Yes you do not need it twice

you can use :

Code:

$c->text = $captured_html;  // We created above ...

$c->title = $this->category->title;
$c->slug = $this->category->slug;
if (FLEXI_J16GE) $c->sectionid = 1;  // for J1.5 only
$c->catid = $this->category->id;
$c->catslug = $this->category->slug;
$c->id = $this->category->id;
$c->state = $this->category->published;

-- test and correct,
-- the $c object is a fake item to be able to trigger Content plugins

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11 years 11 months ago #32188 by rottenberg

Replied by rottenberg on topic content plugin in the category display.

thanks,
I have tried but didn't succeed. I think there were too much 'echo' to be changed.
And I dont't want to modify too much the template. I want to keep the original one.

So I won't continue to try using content plugin at the general level.

the admiror frame works with fields (I tested it in a text field).

I wanted to use it with images fields. But I saw there were no way to execute a content plugin with an image field.

Is it volontarily forbidden to use content plugin with images or is it only an oversight ?

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11 years 11 months ago #32200 by ggppdk

Replied by ggppdk on topic content plugin in the category display.

Hello,
-- You do not modify template at ALL
you do not modify echo or any other command in the template !!

The commands i gave you, capture the output of echo into variable $captured_html

see code below more carefully , just place it start and end of HTML -and- PHP output statements that you want to capture:

Code:

<?php ob_start(); ?>
... HTML and PHP code of your template
<?php
// done with the requested template; get the buffer and clear it.
$captured_html = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
?>

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