I am in the process of adding a copyright line to the footer of a website that I have been working on and I cannot find the best way to get the current dynamically into the footer so I never have to set it again. I have tried multiple things, including a global setting that can be accessed from anywhere, but nothing has worked.
Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.
Write an ApostropheCMS nunjucks helper function. See those docs for the general issues around this. Your specific function could look like:
self.addHelpers({
thisYear: function() {
return new Date().getFullYear();
}
});
If you put that in construct of a module of your own, let's say it's called helpers, then you can call it in Nunjucks as {{ apos.helpers.thisYear() }}.
These are very handy, just remember they cannot do any async work.
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I want to use a script on my web site and I know that I must put all scripts separated from the template in a .js file. But I don't know how to do it this time when the script is executed directly in the script src:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://svenskfotboll.se/widget.aspx?scr=table&ftid=39662&b1=%23006bb7&f1=%23ffffff&b2=%23bfd4f3&f2=%23000000&b3=%23ffffff&f3=%23000000&b4=%23ececec&bo=%23ffffff&s=1"></script>
What is the best practice to get it to work in Meteor?
I'd go to that url, get that script, and save it in a file in your project. However, there wasn't anything actually at that url when I just checked it out. That would definitely be a problem too :)
EDIT: You can also stick in the head tag.
EDIT 2: if you want it to display in a template, like if it's a widget such as yours, you can insert it manually every time the template re-renders. It's pretty simple, actually. First we've got the template code:
Template.myWidget.rendered = function () {
$('#my-widget').html('<script src="src-here.js"></script');
}
And then the actual template:
<template name="myWidget">
<div id="my-widget">Loading...</div>
</template>
Finally, wherever you want the widget to appear in your html, just insert {{>myWidget}}
Use jQuery.getScript(): http://api.jquery.com/jquery.getscript/
In your case:
$.getScript( "http://svenskfotboll.se/widget.aspx?scr=table&ftid=39662&b1=%23006bb7&f1=%23ffffff&b2=%23bfd4f3&f2=%23000000&b3=%23ffffff&f3=%23000000&b4=%23ececec&bo=%23ffffff&s=1" );
You can also specify callback for success or failure (please see documentation linked above).
Drupal 7,
Views,
Bootstrap theme sub theme in use
I have a views-view-table.tpl.php file in my sub theme and I am trying to preprocess some of the variables sent to this tpl. I created a function bootstrap_preprocess_views_view(&$vars) in my template.php and it is not getting called when I visit one of my views pages. Why would this be? Other preprocess functions are getting called from the same template file. I have tried flushing the cache.
function bootstrap_preprocess_views_view(&$vars) {
dsm($vars);
dsm("aaaa");
die;
}
Adam,
I'm assume you've tried all the regular things like clearing your cache, etc before expecting to see the change.
If yes, perhaps this old Drupal issue may be affecting your function: http://drupal.org/node/258089 (since your syntax looks fine).
Do you actually have a corresponding template file in your sub-theme? If you place one in there (even just by copying and pasting the default one from the views module), does it solve your issue?
Let us know!
I'm trying to use a variable in my Blade template, but I always get
ReferenceError: files is not defined
My understanding is that the proper way to pass a variable to a template is something like this (client/ceres.js):
Meteor.startup(function() {
Files = new Meteor.Collection('files');
Template['files'].files = function() {
return Files.find();
}
});
(Copying from the "todos" example)
And then I should be able to use it in my template, views/files.blade:
ul
foreach files as file
li= file.filename
But I guess the variable is passed to the template too late? But if I take my JS out of Meteor.js then Template isn't defined.
So I don't get it. Either my template doesn't exist, or the variable doesn't exist, and it always crashes. How do I pass a simple variable along?
Same error with this:
ul
- for(var i=0; i<files.length; ++i)
li= files[i].filename
This is a known issue with Meteor that is actively being worked on.
The problem is that Meteor prevents smart packages from specifying the load order of files. See issue here.
Because of this issue, it is possible that your client-side JavaScript will run before the templates are loaded. (There is a hack in Meteor that ensures Handlebars templates load before your custom code) For example, Template.foo.helperName = function() { ... } will fail if Template.foo has not yet been defined.
Check the generated HTML (view source) for the initial page load to see if your client-side JavaScript code is loading before the template is defined. If so, you may get an Error like:
TypeError: Cannot set property 'helperName' of undefined`
To workaround this issue, try putting your client-side code in a folder with a different name. I believe that Meteor currently sorts files alphabetically when determining the load order. See the troubleshooting section on this page for more information.
A similar workaround is to utilize Meteor.startup when adding view helpers to your views. That is, you can wrap your Template.foo.helperName = ... stuff in a Meteor.startup call. If you are using a body.blade template, though, you can end up with the opposite problem (i.e. the "catch 22") in which your body.blade template starts rendering before view helpers get setup. In this case, you can get errors since those helpers/variables are not yet defined. The solution here is to avoid using body.blade templates and only render the initial template once all view helpers have been loaded (i.e. at the end of your Meteor.startup routine).
At any rate, all of these workarounds are rather lame. :( But, alas! These issues should be fixed soon.
As soon as Meteor fixes the issue described above, I will modify the Blade smart package to enforce the load order of compiled templates. My apologies for the confusion.
Turns out you can't include files that use Template variables either. i.e., you can't use the include directive in Blade at all if you want to use variables in your template that haven't been initialized by Meteor yet -- you have to insert your template via jQuery/JS after the DOM has loaded. Example:
views/body.blade:
.container
h1 Page Title
#content
views/files.blade:
ul
foreach files as file
- console.log(file);
li= file.filename
client/main.js:
Files = new Meteor.Collection('files');
Template.files.files = function() {
return Files.find();
};
$(function() {
$('#content').html(Meteor.render(Template.files));
});
I am using findOne just to fetch one certain element for my collection.
However, when I do that, all my template functions containing those collections are re-run and the content refreshed. The content is similar, the problem is I am applying styles to some of those elements, and these updates just reset everything as well. More importantly: those refreshes are completely useless.
For example, I have this template:
Template.content.cars = function () {
alert("I AM RERUN!");
return Cars.find();
};
And in another function, I am doing this:
Cars.findOne({ _id: Session.get('current_car') }, {});
Why would be the first template re-run? Am I doing something wrong?
I'm not sure why your first template would be re-run: are you sure something else isn't going on?
But as a general non-answer to your question: you should expect that a template which depends on the entirety of a collection will be re-run many times (for instance as the data loads incrementally when the page first renders). With meteor you need to write your HTML/CSS in such a way that this re-rendering won't cause problems.
Without knowing more about your problem I can't really say more than that.
We've created a custom module for organizing and publishing our newsletter content.
The issue I'm running into now -- and I'm new to theming and Drupal module development, so it could just be a knowledge issue as opposed to a Drupal issue -- is how to get each newsletter themed.
At this point the URL structure of our newsletter will be:
/newsletters/{newsletter-name}/{edition-name}/{issue-date} which means that we can create template files in our theme using filenames like page-newsletters-{newsletter-name}-{edition-name}.tpl.php, which is great. The one issue I'm running into is that all of the content comes through in the $content variable of the theme. I'd like to have it come through as different variables (so that I can, inside the theme, place certain content in certain areas.)
Is there a proper way for doing this?
Edit: To answer some questions: The issue is a node (there are issue, edition and newsletter nodes) and the path is being set using hook_menu with wildcards and a router.
The best answer I could find was to add a check inside of phptemplate_preprocess_page to send the vars back to the module and have them be updated.
Like so:
function phptemplate_preprocess_page(&$vars) {
if (module_exists('test_module')) {
_test_module_injector($vars);
}
}
then in my test_module.module file I created this function:
function _test_module_injector(&$vars) {
$vars[] = call_to_other_functions_to_load_vars();
}
It seemed to work. I wish there was a way to do this without having to touch the theme's template.php file, but otherwise this works well.
If there were better documentation for template preprocess functions, Drupal would be a lot more accessible - as it is, you need to piece together the information from a lot of different explanations. One place to start is here:
http://drupal.org/node/223430
but if you take the time to work through the tutorial below, you'll find you can do most things:
http://11heavens.com/theming-the-contact-form-in-Drupal-6
This is an old post, and the OP's issues seems to have been solved.
However, just for others finding this through Google (or otherwise):
Install the 'Devel' module: http://drupal.org/project/devel
Also the 'Devel Themer' module: http://drupal.org/project/devel_themer
Use Devel Themer to go through the $content variable and find what you need to pull out.
There are a bunch of Devel/Themer docs/tuts out there, but its usage is pretty straightforward. Note, though, that some stuff in there will need to be sanitized before printing in the theme.
The suggestion to show the node as a View and then modifying the view templates sounds pretty crazy, though it'll work.