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How do I find the name of the article form being used?
How do I find the name of the article form being used? I’m cheating by using:
<txp:custom_field name="override_form" />
…is there a more graceful way, please? Thank you.
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#2 2020-10-12 16:48:55
- uli
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Re: How do I find the name of the article form being used?
Hi Pete, makss once posted this code:
<txp:php>global $txp_current_form;echo $txp_current_form;</txp:php>
Or can this be done now with core tags?
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Re: How do I find the name of the article form being used?
I guess the page source in debug mode is not an option? Then for override forms <txp:custom_field />
looks ok. We have no tag for the current form, but could expose it if needed for other purpose than debugging.
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Re: How do I find the name of the article form being used?
Can <txp:page_url />
expose it?
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Re: How do I find the name of the article form being used?
etc wrote #326342:
[…] but could expose it if needed for other purpose than debugging.
It’s presentational, not debugging. I’m building a template that uses different header/main/aside/footer scaffolds depending on the article form. That is to say, the article form dictates which forms are pulled in for presentation elsewhere (individual article only, not article list and otherwise).
Last edited by gaekwad (2020-10-13 10:08:28)
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Re: How do I find the name of the article form being used?
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Re: How do I find the name of the article form being used?
michaelkpate wrote #326351:
Couldn’t you just set a variable?
That’s sort of what I’m doing with…
<txp:custom_field name="override_form" />
…but I’m using the ‘hidden’ custom field over the legit ones. Or have I misunderstood you?
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Re: How do I find the name of the article form being used?
The custom field hack works fine as long as there is an override_form specified for the article. If not, you’ll get nothing back. Thus, it’d be nice to be able to expose this officially, with support for forms that are part of the template as well as override_forms.
Testing a form name is a legitimate thing to do and, especially with the override_form enhancements coming in 4.8.4, it’ll give some great scope for conditional branching based on which form is in use…
EDIT: e.g. if this page is using the ‘gallery’ form or ‘grid’ form, then load this additional lightbox script for handling stuff on this page.
You could employ such a conditional in the form that handles your end-of-body-tag scripts, which gives you nice control over where to load additional non-blocking scripts, instead of having to do it in the form itself, which’d appear mid-page in the markup. Plus, if it was a repeated form, called many times for a list of items, you’d have to use additional logic such as if_last_whatever to ensure you only output the script once. Being able to detect the current form in use for the page would be a boon here.
Not sure what would happen if you called a form from within a form (from within a form, …) though. What’s the scope? We could do with being able to get at ‘thisform’ (possibly nested) and ‘the main form in use on the page’ (top-level) at minimum, imo. Possibly some delimited hierarchy too, so we could assign it to a variable and do something like: <txp:if_variable name="forms-tree" match="any" delimiter="|" value="gallery">...</txp:if_variable>
.
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Re: How do I find the name of the article form being used?
Bloke wrote #326355:
What’s the scope?
High level: author selects the form for the article, that dictates the presentation of the main
content, whether it’s full-width, n-column, or something else…which also affects any aside
stuff, and there’s optional scope to redo the nav
, header
and footer
stuff depending on what main
looks like. If there’s a full-bore, image-heavy article, the top matter needs to be presented accordingly, and likewise if it’s a more subtle thing then it can be toned down.
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#10 2020-10-13 16:03:30
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Re: How do I find the name of the article form being used?
etc wrote #326342:
I guess the page source in debug mode is not an option?
Right. At least for my purpose it’s always been about offering links for publishers and designers from the front side to the admin in order to ease form editing.
Last edited by uli (2020-10-13 18:00:07)
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