XH 1.6: adding function to get URL for print view

[cmb]

Hello Community,

CMSimple offers the function printlink() to insert a link to the print view in the template. One can change the link text by changing $tx['menu']['print']. However, a not so uncommon requirement is to use an image instead of a text. It is possible to use the following:

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tx['menu']['print']="<img src="\path/of/image\" alt="print view">";

That works, but it's not nice to change the language settings of several languages to show the same image, and one would have to adapt it according to $cf['xhtml']['endtags'] (the latter being especially annoying for template designers who want to offer (X)HTML conforming templates).[1]

We may consider offering a function that returns the URL of the print view instead of the complete link additionally. Then it would be possible to write in the template:

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<a href="<?php echo XH_printUrl();?>"><?php tag('img src="' . $pth['folder']['templateimages'] . 'print.png" alt="'  . $tx['menu']['print'] . '');?></a>

[1] Well, I'm aware that one could write something like:

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$tx['menu']['print']="tag('img src=\"' . $pth['folder']['templateimages'] . 'print.png\");";

However, I consider that a dirty hack, as it will not be handled as desired in the language settings form.

Christoph

[Holger]

+1

[Tata]

How about to add such icon/function in content?

[cmb]

How about to add such icon/function in content?

I'm not sure, what you mean. Can you please elaborate.

[Tata]

I mean to put an image-link to e.g. print(), sitemap() functions into the content instead into the template. There is it placed as a

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<?php echo printurl();?>

. On the page it shall be then something like

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<a href="..."><img src="..." alt="..."></a>

[cmb]

I mean to put an image-link to e.g. print(), sitemap() functions into the content instead into the template.

Well, that is already possible. To have an image link to the sitemap in the content, simply insert an image and link that to ?sitemap. To have a respective print link, you can link to {{{XH_printUrl();}}}, if you don't want to hardcode the link or if you want to put this link in a newsbox page. The resulting HTML might be something like this:

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<a href="{{{XH_printUrl();}}}"><img src="./userfiles/images/printer.png" alt="" width="18" height="12"></a> 

[svasti]

@ Christoph:
I hope you put all these tips and tricks into the WIKI. Otherwise how could anybody keep track of this. Or maybe we need a scribe . . .

I guess, Tata means adding some icons to the core. However I think that such icons rather belong to the template and could be different from template to template.

[cmb]

@ Christoph:
I hope you put all these tips and tricks into the WIKI. Otherwise how could anybody keep track of this. Or maybe we need a scribe . . .

I have already thought about putting this "trick" into the WIKI. However, it's not a special trick, it's just about using the plugin call as it's meant to work: replace the plugin call with the return value of the called function when in view mode. Another potential problem with having all those tricks in the WIKI: how's one able to find them?

However I think that such icons rather belong to the template and could be different from template to template.

ACK.