Building Template and Stuck... Help?

oscargodson · 08-24-2008, 09:01 AM

I'll try to explain this as best as I can, but what I am trying to do isn't exactly easy to explain

I have a base XML file (plugins.xml) In this file I have a root <plugins> node. Inside of that are <plugin> nodes. I have a form (deploy_form.php) which uses this XML sheet. To make it easy for people to add plugins to this application they can add some basic nodes to this xml sheet and the form will create a new checkbox option on the deploy_form.php file. Here is what code I have for the form:

PHP Code:


			
            <?php

                foreach($pluginData->plugin as $plugin){

                    $name = $plugin->name;

                    echo '

                    <li><input type="checkbox" value="'.$name.'_plugin" name="jquery_plugin_'.$name.'" />'.$name.'</li>

                    ';

                }

            ?>

My trouble however is on the next page after the user submits this form.

I need to create a new script tag for each new plugin they add. These are jQuery plugins and so they need to make new script tags one after another in a new html/php page. My application creates (among many other things) an index html or php file with default settings such as CSS, image directories, js, jQuery library etc. Here is some more PHP code:

PHP Code:


			
$html_temp = ''.$html_doctype.'



<html '.$html_attr.'>

<head>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

    <title>'.$html_title.'</title>

    '.$css.'

    '.$jquery.'

    

</head>



<body>

    

</body>

</html>

';

I use that variable in an fwrite function below. I need to do a foreach statement like this and put it after where I have the $jquery var

PHP Code:


			
foreach($pluginData->plugin as $plugin){

    $name = $plugin->name;

    $filename = $plugin->name['filename'];

    $dir = $plugin->dir;

    $css = $plugin->css;

    $images = $plugin->images;



    if(isset($_GET["jquery_plugin_$name"])){

        exec("cp -r files/JavaScript/jQuery/plugins/$dir/$filename $deploy_download/js/$filename");

        if(isset($css)){



        }

        if(isset($images)){



        }

    }

    echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="js/'.$filename.'"></script>';

}

I took out a lot of code so it makes it easier for you guys to help so there is a lot more options going into this but I need that final echo below to be repeated for every checked checkbox the user checked for their plugin choice. So, for example, lets say they choose 2 of 3 plugins. Then there would be a total of 2 <script> tags underneath the $jquery variable that needs to be written to a final .html or .php template.

mortisimus · 08-24-2008, 10:26 PM

I don't really understand what you want going on here. From what I understand, you want a page created for a user where the user specifies what jquery plugins they want on the page.

If I am correct then you might want something like:

PHP Code:


			
                foreach($pluginData->plugin as $plugin){
                    $name = $plugin->name;
                    echo '
                    <li><input type="checkbox" value="'.$name.'_plugin" name="plugin[]" />'.$name.'</li>
                    ';
                }

Then for the tags:

PHP Code:


			
$plugin = $_POST['plugin'];
for($i=0;$i<count($plugin);$i++){
   $tags[$i] = $plugin[$i];
}

foreach($tags as $jqsrc){
   echo "<script src=\"js/" $jqsrc . ".js\" type=\"text/javascript\"></script>";
}

So the script tag will link to the plugin.js file specified in the checkbox and this will loop through all the values in the tag array.

However, I have a horrible feeling I may have misunderstood you..

oscargodson · 08-24-2008, 11:21 PM

Well, I can get my foreach statement to work alone. I can't however get it to place the data into that final html_temp variable.

So, for example the final template would look something like:

PHP Code:


			
$html_temp = ''.$html_doctype.'

<html '.$html_attr.'>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <title>'.$html_title.'</title>
    '.$css.'
    '.$jquery.'
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.color.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.corner.js"></script>
    
</head>

<body>
    
</body>
</html>
';

How can I get those sript tags inside the template so when I go to write it to the .html or .php file at the end of the script they will be in $html_temp variable as the are above?

oscargodson · 08-26-2008, 05:11 AM

I finally fixed it. It was pretty simple and here is the code. I removed some of the extra code such as the css and images code.

PHP Code:


			
if(isset($_GET['jquery'])) {

    $jquery_plugins = '';

    foreach($pluginData->plugin as $plugin){

        $name = $plugin->name;

        $filename = $plugin->name['filename'];

        $dir = $plugin->dir;

        $css = $plugin->css;

        $images = $plugin->images;

        

        if(isset($_GET["jquery_plugin_$name"])){

            exec("cp -r files/JavaScript/jQuery/plugins/$dir/$filename $deploy_download/js/$filename");

            $jquery_plugins = $jquery_plugins."\n\t<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"js/$filename\"></script>";

            if(isset($css)){



            }

            if(isset($images)){



            }

        }

    }

}

else {

    $jquery_plugins = '';

}