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http://www.smcing.com/smcdoc/doku.php?id=pb:item_plugin_data&do=diff1226086325
Back to Plugin Builder User Documentation Getting Plugin Data with {$item} Overview Plugin data is accessed via {$item} and {$items}. {$items} is just an array of {$item}’s - there are no other differences between them and both should alw...text/html2008-10-28T20:44:13+01:00Dustin Butler (dustin@66.216.240.42)Plugin_Builder
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Plugin_Builder My First Plugin Plugin Builder User Documentation Sites Currently Using Plugin Builder Previous (and somewhat outdated) documentation Smarty API Development Roadmap Developer Notes Known Defects Documentation Updates ...text/html2008-10-28T15:54:15+01:00Dustin Butler (dustin@66.216.240.42)Handling Shipping Errors
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The $smc_shipping_errors variable was added in 3.29-8 and 3.30 versions. It allows better handling if something goes wrong calculating the shipping. This can occur when connecting to UPS or the USPS service. Also can be from invalid zip code. If a ...text/html2008-10-16T16:12:18+01:00Josh Trutwin (josh@152.65.133.108)Live Sites Using Plugin Builder
http://www.smcing.com/smcdoc/doku.php?id=pb:sites_using_pb&do=diff1224191538
Back to Plugin_Builder Live Sites Using Plugin Builder US Nurse Link - The first and largest plugin builder app. Currently has 53 plugins and 2840 fields (about 1/2 of which are for lengthy checklists) Multiple Access Levels (login as admin, nurs...text/html2008-10-16T15:22:15+01:00Josh Trutwin (josh@152.65.133.108){pb_params}
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Back to Smarty Functions {pb_params} pb_params is a little bit different from all the rest - it is actually not really a smarty function at all, but rather something that the template pre-processor parses and uses to setup template rendering / da...text/html2008-10-16T12:30:28+01:00Josh Trutwin (josh@152.65.133.108)Smarty Functions
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Back to Plugin Builder User Documentation Smarty Functions In addition to {$item} / {$items}, {$fields}, {$auth_data} the following Smarty functions are available for template development. Within each block they are listed in order of relevance. ...text/html2008-10-13T14:33:48+01:00Dustin Butler (dustin@66.216.240.42){pb_grid}
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Back to Smarty Functions {pb_grid} {pb_grid} is designed to display tabular data in an Excel-like dojo grid widget with alternate row shading that supports virtual pagination via scrolling, single column sorting by clicking on grid header, resi...text/html2008-10-02T14:42:59+01:00Dustin Butler (dustin@66.216.240.42)Demos
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@import "/dojo_custom/build/pb/1.1/dijit/themes/tundra/tundra.css"; djConfig = { parseOnLoad: true, isDebug: true, debugAtAllCosts: true }; dojo.require("dojox.layout.ContentPane"); dojo.require("dijit.layout.ContentPane"); dojo.requ...text/html2008-08-21T10:33:40+01:00Dustin Butler (dustin@66.216.240.42)Navigation
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Pages and navigation are tightly coupled in the SMC. A page in the SMC describes a unique page of content but also the link to that content in the form of navigation. The order of the pages in the console tree is really needed for navigation display...text/html2008-08-20T20:01:19+01:00Dustin Butler (dustin@66.216.240.42)Meta Tags
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Meta tags are set in a page’s properties. There you can enter the meta keyword and description tag contents. The tags do not show up on the page template but are added into the <head> tag when the page template is saved. You can overide...text/html2008-08-20T14:39:24+01:00Josh Trutwin (josh@74.41.175.122){pb_form}
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Back to Smarty Functions {pb_form} {pb_form} is a smarty block function for enclosing a <form></form> block. Where you would normally have an opening HTML form, insert a {pb_form} instead, where you would have a closing form tag, pu...text/html2008-08-19T22:50:04+01:00Josh Trutwin (josh@69.46.214.95)Documentation Updates
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Back to Plugin_Builder Documentation Updates The DocuWiki “Recent Changes” doesn’t seem to be working so this is just a list of updates to the documentation: 08/19/2008 Created {pb_inline_error_container} Smarty API doc page ...text/html2008-08-19T22:48:47+01:00Josh Trutwin (josh@69.46.214.95){pb_inline_error_container} - created
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Back to Smarty Functions {pb_inline_error_container} Inline forms do a lot of work asynchronously, sometimes things will go wrong either via a timeout or a query/application error. This function simply creates a div tag where error and other mess...text/html2008-08-19T16:42:21+01:00Josh Trutwin (josh@74.41.175.122){pb_word_count}
http://www.smcing.com/smcdoc/doku.php?id=pb:pb_word_count&do=diff1219182141
Back to Smarty Functions {pb_word_count} This function can be used to display a current count of the number of words in the field and updates as the user types/deletes. For textarea fields that have a Max Words value set from the field editor, th...text/html2008-08-19T16:14:22+01:00Josh Trutwin (josh@74.41.175.122){pb_function_name}
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Back to Smarty Functions {pb_function_name} short description here Required Parameters param_name: describe required param Optional Parameters param_name: describe optional param Deprecated Parameters Option list of parameters still s...text/html2008-08-19T14:42:37+01:00Dustin Butler (dustin@66.216.240.42)SMC Plug-ins
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A plug-in is created to define a particular item. For example you can create a classifieds plug-in to define classified items, a real estate plug-in to define homes for sale. Once you’ve defined the plug-in you create various templates to disp...text/html2008-08-14T22:10:56+01:00Josh Trutwin (josh@69.46.214.95){pb_inline_list}
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Back to Smarty Functions {pb_inline_list} One of the cornerstones of plugin builder developments is the concept of an inline list. This is simply a list of plugin items (though could certainly be items with cross-plugin data) that has the followi...text/html2008-08-14T13:08:17+01:00Josh Trutwin (josh@74.41.175.122){pb_inline_form}
http://www.smcing.com/smcdoc/doku.php?id=pb:pb_inline_form&do=diff1218737297
Back to Smarty Functions {pb_inline_form} An inline form is a mechanism where you can add/edit items asynchronously (without having a page refresh) - this is especially useful when combined with either a {pb_inline_list} or a {pb_grid} which will...text/html2008-08-14T11:32:54+01:00Josh Trutwin (josh@74.41.175.122){pb_include_template}
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Back to Smarty Functions {pb_include_template} When writing smarty templates, sometimes it is useful to include other templates via smarty’s {include} function. This works with the plugin builder as well, except for one crucial problem. If ...text/html2008-08-14T11:29:51+01:00Josh Trutwin (josh@74.41.175.122){pb_get_items}
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Back to Smarty Functions {pb_get_items} This function is used to retrieve plugin items in a number of different ways. This should only be used though when the default item retrieval built into the plugin builder template rendering system is unabl...