Templates FAQs

• FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
• FAQ/Installation Installation
• FAQ/Localisation Internationalisation and Localisation
• FAQ/Modifying Modifying Seagull
• FAQ/Modifying/Flexy Templates FAQs
• FAQ/UserManagement User Management

How to I get rid of >angle brackets< around words?

I changed a value in userManager.html from "{translate(#add user#)}" to "{translate(#add child#)}". Now I get ">add child<" where "add user" used to be.

Well, if you try to output something via {translate} that cannot be found in the language file. So:

1. check out <seagull-install>/modules/user/lang/english-iso-8859-15.php
2. edit this file (entry $wordsadd user?) or create a new one with $wordsadd child? = 'add child';
3. be sure you update the other tranlsations. You can use the 'Manage Translations' section of the Default manager for this.

Is there any way to test a condition other than true/false (like $a=='foobar') with flexy?

Yes there is, using the isEqual() function, however, the beware of putting business logic in the template, generally a bad idea.

Note: look for this method in Seagull 0.6, not Seagull 0.4.x. If you need custom methods, create them using Howto/Templates/Flexy/Plugins

Flexy mangles my HTML

I have some strings like "<acronym title="Seagull Framework">Seagull</acronym>" to translate. But Flexy destroys the HTML and converts '<' to '&lt'.

This is a standard Flexy feature, to send raw html just append :h in the template, like this

<p>{translate(#test 123#):h}</p>

Is there any way to turn Flexy off or even better all output after action is called?

If you need to dynamically create pdf, png etc. files, have a look at FileMgr.php in the publisher module.

Basically you have to select an empty template file to keep Flexy happy and call exit() after having generated your output like in _download() for instance.

How can I format strings / numbers?

• Optionally you can format data in your modules using sprintf but it is better MVC practice to move all formatting to the templates
• You may also have a look at Howto/Templates/Flexy/Plugins or see http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.html.html-template-flexy.php
• and comments in the Flexy.php lib like: 'numberFormat' => ",2,'.',','", default number format {xxx:n} format = eg. 1,200.00

So I want to create my own templates…

look at Howto/Templates/WorkingWithTemplates for info on how to do this.

How can i use PHP variables inside JavaScript code?

You can find more information in Howto/Templates