Javascript & Flexy

Monday, August 2. 2004

If you ever used Flexy, which I consider a really great TE, you have most probably already stumbled across Flexy's inability to step into <script> blocks.

A really easy method to overcome this problem is to define scriptOpen and scriptClose properties in your base objects outputted by Flexy:


<?php

class FlexyObject {
  var $scriptOpen = "\n<script type=\"text/javascript\"> <!--\n";
  var $scriptClose = "\n//--> </script>\n";
  var $scriptData = "var foo = 'bar';";
}
?>

Outputting above object with the following template wont work:


<html>
<script type="text/javascript">
  {scriptData:h}
</script>
</html>

Instead:


<html>
{scriptOpen:h}
  {scriptData:h}
{scriptClose:h}
</html>

...works like a charm...

Alan said, Flexy wont step into Javascript blocks because that caused massive problems with the Smarty convertor...

Posted by Mike in PHP at 13:00 | Comments (3)

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of course the official way is to pass variables using
<flexy:toJavascript
javascript_varname="php_var_name">
<script type="text/javascript">
javascript_varname="the default";
</script>
</flexy:toJavascript>

So that templates can be tested independantly of the renderer..

(otherwise use XMLUrlRequest to fetch data)

But I guess there should be some way to write generated Javascript.. perhaps
<script type="text/javascript" flexy:code="{myjscode():h}">

#1 Alan (Link) on 2004-08-03 02:24

of course the official way is to pass variables using

javascript_varname="the default";

So that templates can be tested independantly of the renderer..

(otherwise use XMLUrlRequest to fetch data)

But I guess there should be some way to write generated Javascript.. perhaps

ohh - I hate smart comment systems