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nanook
Posted: 22 January 2008 08:34 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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Hi all,

I have someone else doing all the “standard” templating stuff, which leaves me with the funky bits.

Right now, I’m working on a multilingual SAEF. Language info is coming from a PHP session, which I initiate via a plugin: my_session. This works just fine.

However, inside the {exp:weblog:entry_form}, my plugin output is different from outside.

An example:

{exp:my_session:get_language_output}<br />

{exp:weblog:entry_form weblog="my_weblog" return="site/index"}

{exp:my_session:get_language_output}

{/exp:weblog:entry_form}

The output:

English
M00o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr

“English” is the correct output, of course. I’ve read the appropriate section of the user guide and searched the forums, but couldn’t find any reference.

Any clues? Assigning it to a variable and using that doesn’t work either.

TIA… Nico
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Robin Sowell
Posted: 22 January 2008 11:14 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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It kind of looks like a placeholder, but I’m not sure why.  If you hard code it, it comes out fine- correct?  What’s the plugin doing?

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Posted: 23 January 2008 02:41 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Hi Robin,

The plugin just return()‘s a string, in this case the string “English”. If I declare a variable like

{assign_variable:mylang="English"}

and use

{mylang}

outside and inside, the problem persists.

Perhaps the real problem is that I am trying to program the SAEF instead of designing it?
(Please say no… wink )

Thanks!... Nico
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Lisa Wess
Posted: 23 January 2008 02:07 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Hi, Nico -  Can you confirm that the Stand Alone Entry form works, if you copy and paste the example from the docs?

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Posted: 23 January 2008 11:23 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Hi Lisa,

Yes, I can. I am actually building my SAEF with code snippets from that example.

Thanks… Nico
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Lisa Wess
Posted: 23 January 2008 11:27 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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Hi, Nico - since the SAEF itself works, I’m going to shift this down to the Plugins forum to get more focused assistance for you.

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Posted: 25 January 2008 03:42 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Hi Lisa,

We’ve found that if the plugin output is only used inside the entry_form, it works allright.

Probably, I’m getting bitten by the order in which everything inside EE is handled. Since I want to use this output inside a conditional, I think building the SAEFs by hand is the only way to go for now.

As a PHP programmer, that would be a bummer.

Thanks… Nico
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Posted: 27 January 2008 05:53 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Hi,

It seems that my_session plugin is mentioned neither on main plugins page nor on wiki plugins page.

Could someone to post download link for this plugin?

Thanks.

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Mark Bowen
Posted: 27 January 2008 06:27 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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i think that it might be a plugin that Nico has created himself?

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Mark

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nanook
Posted: 27 January 2008 08:08 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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Hi,

Mark is right. It’s just a small plugin I am writing as the projects develops.

class My_session
{
    var $language_values=array('en', 'nl');
    var $language_output=array('English', 'Dutch');

    function My_session()
    {
        if(empty($_SESSION['language'])){
            session_name('session_name_here');
            session_start();
            $_SESSION['language'] = $this->language_values[0];
        }
    }
}

Up till now, it’s just a small bit of code that starts a session and assigns a language session variable (‘en’ by default). A few functions exist to set and retrieve the language variable.

Nothing perfect, nothing big. Yet. wink

I am used to working with PHP sessions, which I why I chose this route.

HTH… Nico
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Posted: 27 January 2008 08:12 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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Oh, and just to make sure: that code snippet I posted is NOT the entire plugin… wink
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