phpbb variable empty on custom page - phpbb3

I have a phpbb 3.1 forum, where I have put a html portal, (using the custom page tutorial)
I have included functions.php so I can use {S_USERNAME} and everything with the S_ in that page...
but, now I want to put the forum statistics, using, for example:
{TOTAL_USERS_ONLINE}
{LOGGED_IN_USER_LIST}
{TOTAL_POSTS}
and so on
The variables, are empty when using them in my page... is there any problem? I need to add something more than that file?
thanks!

The variables are mentioned are initialized in the page_header function in functions.php
In custom pages you always call that function to initialize common variables like the S_ variables you mentioned.
Since the loading of online users is a little heavier and not needed on every page, the function has a parameter $display_online_list to enable it.
Check the method signature and set $display_online_list to true
To display TOTAL_POSTS, you will need to add a bit of code, see the assign_vars call in index.php, $config is a global variable which should be available in every page.

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ASP.NET Core MVC : Razor pages routing, incorrectly re-using previous route data

I'm working on a dotnet 6 mvc application using RazorPages, and I'm having a problem with strange routing behavior.
I have a RazorPage /Pages/News.cshtml
This page is accessible using the default route /news
When called without any parameters this page will display an index of news articles.
I also want this page to be able to display a specific news article, via a path like this...
/news/1234-my-news-article
To achieve this, I've added a config like so...
builder.Services.AddRazorPages(options =>
{
options.Conventions.AddPageRoute("/News", "News/{id:regex(^\\d+\\-.*)?}");
});
In my templates, I can then use links like this...
<a asp-page="/News" asp-all-route-data="#(new Dictionary<string, string> { { "id", "1234-my-news-article" } })">My News Article</a>
or
<a asp-page="/News">All Articles</a>
However, once I've navigated to a specific article, the index link doesn't render correctly, and will instead link again to the same article. It appears to be re-using the current routing parameters.
Is there some way to avoid this?
update:
I've found a work-around, if I use this tag instead...
<a asp-page="/News" asp-route-id="">All Articles</a>
then it will link correctly to "/news".
It seems a bit counter-intuitive to have to explicitly set this to blank. I would have assumed it would default to unset, unless explicitly set otherwise.
This is known as ambient route values (https://www.learnrazorpages.com/razor-pages/tag-helpers/anchor-tag-helper#ambient-route-values), where the current route values are automatically added to outbound links which are generated by the anchor tag helper if the destination page is the same as the current page. In older versions of Razor Pages, this was the default behaviour for all pages.
As you have discovered, you can override this by setting the route value to an empty string, or as suggested elsewhere, to use a plain anchor tag for your link.
asp-page tag helper will add id value to the route by default.It is by design.If you don't want to add it,you can try to use href to replace asp-page:
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Including Joomla! 3 module in custom position on custom component

I've seen alot of examples of how to include modules on a custom joomla! component using JModuleHelper::getModules, however, when trying to include modules in a custom position, the array come back empty. Here's my code in my component's template:
<?php
jimport('joomla.application.module.helper');
$modules = JModuleHelper::getModules('comwhcustomer');
foreach ($modules as $module){
echo JModuleHelper::renderModule($module);
}
?>
You'll notice the position I'm passing the getModules function is comwhcustomer. This code is returning a blank array. If I pass "footer", I do successfully get the module in the footer position.
I'm using an adapted protostar tempalte and I have added the comwhcustomer position to the xml definition file for the template. I've created the module in module manager and in the position filed, I've selected the "comwhcustomer" position that shows up in the dropdown. On the modules manager page, I see the module listed in the position selected (comwhcustomer). I've confirmed in the database table #__modules that the position is saved correctly.
However, the array is still coming back empty on the getModules call. What am I missing?
Joomla version 3.4.1
Local environment
Windows IIS
PHP 5.4.24
MySQL db
PS - As an alternative, I have sucessfully loaded the module with JModuleHelper::getModule() however, none of the attributes I define in the module manager come over, because they're not supposed to. I'd like to use the method mentioned above so I can control the module behavior from the manager rather than attributes in the code, because this position will be used in multiple views of this component.
This is my first time posting to SO. I do appreciate the support :-)
itoctopus, you were exactly right! The module itself was not assigned to any pages, that's the piece I was not taking into consideration! Thank you so much for your help! I set it to display on all pages and it worked!
Of course, it doesn't show up on all the other pages because they do not contain a position called "comwhcustomer" so it is exactly what I was looking for!

How to change load layout in Joomla view?

By default parent::display($tpl); loads components/com_my_component/views/my_component/tmpl/default.php, but in some cases i need to load other php file which is in the same folder near default.php (for example components/com_my_component/views/my_component/tmpl/lol.php). How to do this from view.html.php.
P.S.
Tried load loadTemplate and setLayout methods with no luck.
Solved the problem by myself. Need to use the method setLayout and pay attention to the input syntax
$this->setLayout('dafault:lol');
parent::display($tpl);
By default, joomla looks for the layout keyword in the URL to decide which layout to display. If this variable is empty or not present then the tmpl/default.php layout will be loaded.
By editting your view.html.php file you can set the default layout by using the JView API, e.g. $this->setLayout('lol') will make the URL example.com/yourview equivalent to example.com/yourview?layout=lol.
However, this change alone will result in Joomla overriding it's default behaviour so that the layout request will be ignored. This means that the request example.com/yourview?layout=lmao will also display example.com/yourview = example.com/yourview?layout=lol
You can solve this easily by adding a condition around the setLayout function so that only if the layout keyword is not present then you will set the default layout to lol, e.g.
<?php
# ...
function display($tpl = null) {
# ...
# Edit : Set the default layout to 'lol'
$layout = JRequest::getWord('layout', '');
if (empty($layout)) $this->setLayout("lol");
// Display the view
parent::display($tpl);
}
# ...
I keep coming back to this and I've yet to find a satisfying solution.
What does work, from J1.5 right up to J3.4, for me has always been to set the $tpl variable in view.html.php
If $tpl is empty or "" then tmpl/default.php is displayed by default.
If you change $tpl to a string, e.g. $tpl="stacker" then it will look for and display tmpl/default_stacker.php
I've seen various differing theories on changing it earlier in the MVC so that it doesn't need the default_ pretext. e.g. tmpl/stacker.php
None have worked for me.

yii Ajax link not working

I put a Ajax link using the following code:
echo chtml::ajaxLink('GO', 'http://localhost/index.php?r=user/delete', array('method'=>'POST'));
But, regardless of giving the second parameter as URL i,e 'http://localhost/index.php?r=user/delete'. It generates link with the current URL in the browser not the URL I just specified.
What is the issue? How could I create AJAX link? Google several hours but can't solve the issue.
Any kind of help is highly appreciated.
First of all, you should always try and create normalized urls.
But i think your doubt lies in the # that is generated/appended. If you go and check the source of yii ajaxLink you'll see this:
public static function ajaxLink($text,$url,$ajaxOptions=array(),$htmlOptions=array())
{
if(!isset($htmlOptions['href']))
$htmlOptions['href']='#';
$ajaxOptions['url']=$url;
$htmlOptions['ajax']=$ajaxOptions;
self::clientChange('click',$htmlOptions);
return self::tag('a',$htmlOptions,$text);
}
so if you don't set the href property of the a tag in the htmloptions array, the # will be appended.
You should also understand that yii uses jquery, so if you check out the source of the page, you'll see at the bottom, how jquery is used to carry out an ajax request, your actual url that is called will also be seen in that script. So the third option/parameter in ajaxLink is for options for jquery's ajax function. You can create better ajax links using this option.
Regardless of where(which controller) your url points to in your project, the action associated with that url will be called.
So anyway, you can modify your code like this if you want the url to be shown and not a # :
echo CHtml::ajaxLink('GO', 'http://localhost/index.php?r=user/delete',
array('type'=>POST), //there are various other options for jquery ajax
array('href'=>'http://localhost/index.php?r=user/delete'));
To make better ajax links i would suggest going through jquery's ajax documentation. There is an option for a success function, that you can use to let the user know that the operation was completed.
Hope this helps, don't hesitate to leave comments if i haven't answered your question completely.
Have you tried:
echo CHtml::ajaxLink('GO', array('/user/delete'), array('method'=>'POST'));
as the ajaxLink documentation suggests...? Look also at the normalizeUrl method.
Using these methods, which in turn are using createUrl, is usually better since it will take care to create a valid url for your site.
I had the same issue(or maybe similar).
I've used renderPartial to load view and later in that view i was using ajaxLink and it was not working.
What i have found, that when using renderPartial, there was no jquery script for ajax action.
What you have to do is to add 4th argument(true) in renderPartial function to generate jquery script.
See the documentation: http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CController/#renderPartial-detail
Hope it helps and saves time to figure it out.

Create base jqgrid

I have a website with several views, and most of them have a jqGrid on them.
I'd like to set some base options on all my jqgrids. For example, I'd like the view option to always be set to true, and the search option to always be set to false.
Additionally, there are several that I'd like to have the same button labels.
Is there any way to do this with a jqGrid?
Look at the answer which shows how to set default settings jQuery.jgrid.nav. In your case it would be
jQuery.extend(jQuery.jgrid.nav,
{search:false,view:true, viewtext:"View label", viewtitle:"View tooltip"}
);
Other default settings you can change in the same way using jQuery.jgrid.del, jQuery.jgrid.view and of course jQuery.jgrid.defaults.
You don't need to place the code inside of jQuery(document).ready(function() {/**/});. It is enough just ecxecute the code like jQuery.extend(jQuery.jgrid.nav, {search:false,view:true}); inside a JavaScript file loaded after the jquery.jqGrid.min.js.
You could add an additional script tag to your HTML that references a JS file with some base configuration stuff for the grid in a $().ready(function() {}); block.
You could also create a base configuration function or variable that you store in that external JS, and reference that configuration on each view page.
I would prefer to write the base function, and not the ready event handler as the ready handler will NOT run at a predictable time. You won't know if it properly ran before your jqGrid configure function ran.

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