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Alex Parra

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Alex Parra

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Hello everyone.

I've found PW recently and I've been exploring/testing it...

The everything is a Page is slowly sinking in.

I'm currently trying to render a page in another (like a partial) like below:

$shop = $pages->get('/shops/mr-big');
$mainContent = $shop->render('partials/shop-intro.php');

I also have set an $config->appendTemplateFile.

How can I prevent the appendFile to be included for this partial rendering.

I've search the forums and docs but could not find an answer...

Thank you

LostKobrakai Hero Member

LostKobrakai

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This should do the job.

$shop = $pages->get('/shops/mr-big');

$temp = $config->appendTemplateFile;
$config->appendTemplateFile = '';

$mainContent = $shop->render('partials/shop-intro.php');

$config->appendTemplateFile = $temp;
Alex Parra Newbie

Alex Parra

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Hello LostKobrakai,

That worked!

Thinking some method of doing this should exist.

Is this Module playfield or am I doing it wrong and there are more appropriate ways?

My goal is to render a "snippet" of an existing page.

Think latest news intro or blog list post intro..

Thanks for your reply.

Soma Hero Member

Soma

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There's no method cause a page->render() usually needs the init. Depends what you have in your init, but there shouldn't be anything big going on there.

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Soma

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There's many different options, so there's also a option to overwrite it in the render options.

$p->render("template", array("prependFile" => ""));
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LostKobrakai Hero Member

LostKobrakai

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I you're searching for a more flexible way to include snippets / not always whole sites, maybe this is a more appropriate function:

// returns the output of snippets/contactform.php
// the second argument is optional and will be passed to 
// the called file as multiple variables with the name of the key
// also all api varables are available by default

wireRenderFile("snippets/contactform", array("stuff" => $something ));
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Alex Parra Newbie

Alex Parra

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Ah! That looks much better... complete code below

/**
 * site/config.php
 */
$config->appendTemplateFile = '_layout.php';
/**
 * site/templates/home.php
 */
$title = $page->title;
$shop = $pages->get('/shops/mr-big');
$mainContent = $shop->render('partials/shop-intro.php', ['appendFile'=>null]);
/**
 * site/templates/partials/shop-intro.php
 */
<div class="shop-intro">
<h2><?= $page->title ?></h2>
<?php foreach( $page->shop_photos AS $photo ) : ?>
  <img src="<?= $photo->url ?>" /><br/>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<div class="shop-desc">
  <?= html_entity_decode($page->shop_description) ?>
</div>
</div>
/**
 * site/templates/_layout.php
 */
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title><?= $title; ?></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1><?= $title; ?></h1>
<div class="container">
<?= $mainContent ?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
 

I like it like this...

If anyone has a better way, feel free to jump in.

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Alex Parra Newbie

Alex Parra

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Didn't know about wireRenderFile(...)

Thank you LostKobrakai.

For the situation at hand, Soma's tip seems more natural.

But the wireRenderFile may be very useful in other ways...

Thank you both.

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bernhard Hero Member

bernhard

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thanks for wireRenderFile

until now i was doing this like it is done in the blog profile: https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/BlogProfile/blob/cca31ebb7ec10f7614044156161abe3042abbbed/templates/categories.php#L20

drawback was, that the api variables where not directly accessible in the template file ( wire('page') instead of $page ). is there any reason why the blog profile uses a different approach?

LostKobrakai Hero Member

LostKobrakai

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wireRenderFile() / wireIncludeFile() are new shortcuts to the old TemplateFile markup used in the blog profile. They were introduced somewhere around 2.5.0, so they're to new for the blog profile.

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