smd_where_used: help keep your admin side tidy

uli · 2008-06-20 16:56:50

The change is not too elegant, I know. But I needed it, and I tend to do on my own what I feel capable of. So posting the cf stuff wasn’t meant as a broad hint but rather as a “take and leave Stef alone” :)

Bloke wrote:

which is a lot more code than I have time for right now.

NP, with all that cf stuff I have what I mostly need.

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maniqui · 2008-12-20 01:14:05

Hi Bloke

What about adding the ability of also looking inside the styles?

And… is it possible to add the Where Used tab to more than one place on the admin side?

Bloke · 2008-12-20 08:58:27

maniqui wrote:

What about adding the ability of also looking inside the styles?

Not possible natively without some wider changes to the code, since the stylesheets are (stupidly imho) BASE-64 encoded, so the column in the database looks like an uninstalled plugin. If I was to enhance the initial part of the plugin (which I can do) to optionally specify some kind of ‘action’ to perform on a column before I work with it, then yes it’s possible. If I went this route I’d also like to allow you to specify which places to look in, which implies some kind of setup screen, and that’s a whole lot more coding.

Also, bear in mind that the plugin is designed to find where you have used a reference to something else. e.g. it finds where you have used Forms in Pages, and where you have used Pages or Stylesheets in Sections, and so on. It’s not a global ‘find text’ tool (at least, not yet…). Perhaps lam_search_replace could be extended for this purpose instead?

BTW, on the ToDo list is a simple jQuery addition to auto-focus the text box when you visit the tab. Annoys me every time.

And… is it possible to add the Where Used tab to more than one place on the admin side?

Yes. Again, it would require a prefs screen so you could specify under which tab(s) it appears. Why do you want this, btw? It’s an admin tool to help you tidy up your forms and pages as you develop a site, which should ideally be deleted when the site is live. I usually have it open on its own (Firefox) tab and then middle-click the results it gives back to open the pages/forms in their own tab and do the deletions. Do you use it differently?

jstubbs · 2008-12-20 11:55:58

Stef, adding a possibility to replace text would make this plugin perfect, in addition to searching style sheets. I have a template I want to export using hcg_templates, and in order to use export, I first have to change references in forms and pages like so: template_name_comments_form

Its a pain to do this manually, but worth it for the end user, who can simply import the template using hcg_templates and is then good to go.

jstubbs · 2008-12-20 13:02:15

By the way, I see errors with the plugin. I have a form called “footer” which is not recognised by where_used. Neither is a form called “header”. Tried the options “match case” and “whole words” but nothing found.

Bloke · 2008-12-20 13:05:10

jstubbs wrote:

By the way, I see errors with the plugin. I have a form called “footer” which is not recognised by where_used. Neither is a form called “header”

Daft question, but are they used ;-) (i.e. do you refer to them from other forms/pages?) Try the plugin without any search term and see if they show up as orphans.

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jstubbs · 2008-12-20 13:20:58

Yes, they are used :-) Entering empty search terms results in “No results found.”

Bloke · 2008-12-20 13:25:58

jstubbs wrote:

Yes, they are used :-)

Hmm, then the output doesn’t sound right at all. Since it’s working for me (famous last words), do you mind if I take look at your version in-situ? Might be an obscure PHP version thing, or something I’ve never encountered on my crummy old system.

Entering empty search terms results in “No results found.”

That also sounds fishy. Smacks of the plugin playing up, unless of course you are phenomenally tidy. In which case, well done on being one of the lucky few people to get a clean bill of health from the plugin :-)

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keith · 2008-12-20 13:33:38

Just to add – it finds all of my Header and Footer forms no problem…

jstubbs · 2008-12-20 13:44:57

Sending you a login now. This site is a new template, and I am preparing the form names for export. The new form is called “minima_photo_header” and where used does not find that either.

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