Calling Plugins from the Content

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Hello Community,

many plugins are meant to be called from the content. How exactly this has to be done is described in the plugin's help. But typically there are 3 different ways to accomplish the same result:

1. "classic" CMSimple scripting:
   

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   #CMSimple $output=preg_replace("/".chr(35)."CMSimple.*?".chr(35)."/",plugin_function(),$c[$s]);#

2. the "new" plugin call:
   

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   {{{PLUGIN:plugin_function(...);}}}

3. using the hi_pd_scripting plugin

If you're using (1) or (2) in combination with a WYSIWYG editor (e.g. tinyMCE or CKEditor) and the plugin call is on a separate "line", the editor will embed the plugin call in a <p> element. This often results in invalid (X)HTML [1] and in some cases might result in JS errors (particularly on IE) [2], so you should always change the format of the plugin call paragraph to <div>.

[1] many plugins use <div>s or other block level elements to structure their output, but inside a <p> no block level elements are allowed
[2] some plugins insert content dynamically with JS, but some browser's JS engines choke on invalid (X)HTML that should be created dynamically

Christoph