Knowing how many times a module has been used in a template...

Knowing how many times a module has been used in a template…

Posted: 31 August 2008 12:46 PM

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Howdy,

I’m working on developing a Google Maps plug-in, which is working quite well. What I currently need, though, is some way to know how many times my module has been called on the same page. I’ve searched this site all through, and haven’t found a thing.

The general gist is this:

{exp:mapper id="testMap1"}

{exp:mapper id="testMap1"}

{exp:mapper id="testMap2"} 

I want to know, when the mapper module is called, how many times it’s been previously run.

Perhaps a global of some kind? I tried declaring one, but it didn’t seem to persist.

Thanks for the input!

-Daniel

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Daniel H.

Posted: 05 September 2008 12:33 PM

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No ideas?

-Daniel

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Victor Gutierrez

Posted: 05 September 2008 03:16 PM

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You could make a counter in the $SESS->cache

if isset($SESS->cache['mapper']['count'])
{
$SESS->cache['mapper']['count'] = $SESS->cache['mapper']['count'] + 1;
}
else
{
$SESS->cache['mapper']['count'] = 1;
} 

In every module call you can check that to see how many times

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Daniel H.

Posted: 05 September 2008 03:34 PM

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Ok, now I just feel dumb. That makes perfect sense!

Thanks, Victor!

-Daniel

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Daniel H.

Posted: 06 September 2008 03:49 PM

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New question.

So I’m trying to write out JavaScript code, but on every additional call of the module, I need to modify some early written/rendered output. Any thoughts on how to do this? I’m searching through the documentation looking for a way to access previous output, but no luck yet.

If I knew when the last time my module would be called is, I could just create my final Javascript code version during that time.

The code looks something like:

<script type="text/javascript">
function init()
{
Drawbox("div1");
Drawbox("div2");
Drawbox("div3");
}
</script> 

When my first call comes along, it would output this:

<script type="text/javascript">
function init()
{
Drawbox("div1");
}
</script> 

Second time:

<script type="text/javascript">
function init()
{
Drawbox("div1");
Drawbox("div2");
}
</script> 

And the third time would be like I first showed the example.

I’m not sure I can do that.

I’m going to look into some JavaScript get workarounds for now.

Thanks!

-Daniel

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Victor Gutierrez

Posted: 06 September 2008 03:58 PM

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The $TMPL is your friend

global $TMPL;

// The current template
print_r($TMPL->template);

// The final rendered template
print_r($TMPL->final_template); 

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Daniel H.

Posted: 06 September 2008 05:46 PM

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Awesome, Victor! Thanks!

Now I’m curious where in the documentation those functions were mentioned… I’ve been all through the template parser class documentation… I didn’t see those there.

Thanks again.

-Daniel

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