Re: plugin as portlet doesn't work

Hi,



Christian Stocker wrote:
> 
> On 7.7.2005 12:32 Uhr, Matthias Dieke wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I wrote a plugin and I like to use it as portlet.
>>
>>I did the following:
>>
>>1. wrote plugin "bx_plugins_banner" (based on the gallery-plugin)
>>
>>2. edited .configxml of the root and put this into it
>>
>><plugins inGetChildren="false">
>>    <extension type="xml"/>
>>    <file preg="#plugin=#"/>
>>
>>    <plugin type="banner">
>>    </plugin>
>></plugins>
>>
>>
>>3. and liked to use the plugin as portlet in master.xsl
>>
>><xsl:variable name="bannerParams" select="'1,6,files/banner/,true'" />
>>
>><xsl:variable name="banner" select="document(concat('portlet://',''
>>,'banner(',$bannerParams,').xml'))/bx/plugin[@name ='banner']/gallery"/>
>>
>><xsl:call-template name="gallery_displayBannerGallery">
>>    <xsl:with-param name="gallery" select="$banner"/>
>></xsl:call-template>
> 
> 
> you mixed something here :)
> 
> the <file preg="#plugin=#"/> code is used for so called "subplugins",
> which means plugins of a plugin, they are actually handled by the main
> plugin and the plugin= stuff is taken apart there (see the blog code
> getContentById in particular).
> 
> What you do is to call
> 
> portlet://banner(1,6,files/banner/,true).xml
> 
> while you try to  match on "#plugin=#", which of course doesn't work.
> portlet:// is just a stream handler for the particular request, like you
> would do from outside, it doesn't prepend or append anything. So, what
> you have to do is, either call
> 
> 
> portlet://plugin=banner(1,6,files/banner/,true).xml
> 
> and take the code from the blog plugin to handle that. or do
> 
> <plugins inGetChildren="false">
>      <extension type="xml"/>
>      <file preg="#banner(#"/>
>      <plugin type="banner">
>      </plugin>
>  </plugins>

Thanks, it works now.


> 
> You of course have to take apart your params as well there. Check what
> you get in getContentById() in $path and $id, and maybe adjust
> getIdByRequest() as well.

I adjust it ;)

> 
> To debug that beast, just call (or whatever you write after portlet://)
> 
> http://example.org/banner(1,6,files/banner/,true).xml?XML=1
> 
> which should return you the XML. You have to be logged in to make that
> work, otherwise you get just an empty page
> 
> HTH

Thanks a lot. Yes it helped ;)


> 
> chregu
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>
>>
>>
>>When I call www.domain.tld I get some error messages and the pictures of
>>the banner-gallery won't be shown.
>>
>>BXCMSNG Errors:
>>Notice[8] Undefined index: banner(1,6,files/banner/,true)xml in
>>/home/dima/public_html/bxcms/inc/bx/collection.php at line 188.
>>Warning[2] Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
>>/home/dima/public_html/bxcms/inc/bx/collection.php at line 133.
>>
>>
>>
>>It seams that I never go to bx_plugins_banner::getContentById().
>>To test this I put echo "test"; exit; to the getContentById()-Method.
>>
>>
>>
>>I can't remember how to show the xml-tree of a plugin?
>>
>>www.domain.tld/?plugin=banner.xml&XML=1 ???
>>
>>but I doesn't work, is this the correct syntax?
>>
>>
>>Thanks for your help
>>
>>Matthias
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
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