Extension building question

[Harm10]

Setting the condition is not that hard: select show if by category (entry) or chapter (page) and as condition = 'Chaptername' and it works!

[kenada]

This is not working for me.
Do I need an ' before and after the chapter name? Can the chapter name have a space it in?

[kenada]

ok I got it now. I didn't need the = ' ' part just the chapter name.
I am using the Bonus Fields Extension. So for others when using this only put in the chapter name, no = or single quotes.

[kenada]

So here is the next issue. I have created a page that has a javascript pop up alert text if any of the images on this page is clicked.

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[[ if $page.extrafields.use_fake_download=="on"]]
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" >
[[literal]]
function show_alert() {
var msg = "[[$page.extrafields.fake_download_alert_message]]";
alert(msg);
}
[[/literal]]
</script>
[[/if]]

This works but the problem is when the message is shown, it displays "[[$page.extrafields.fake_download_alert_message]]" instead of the message that is stored in this table.
What am I doing wrong here? How can I make this show the message that is added to this field in the database?

[Harm10]

Everything between [[ literal ]] and [[/literal]] is not smarty translated so the value is not processed.
Why are you using the literal tags? If you leave them out the value of the variable will be shown.

BTW I tested my answer for chapter = and the chaptername between quotes and it worked OK. I agree the documentation can be better.

[kenada]

I am learning as I write. I have already built all of this in php but it is completely standalone.
I am trying to merge my script into pivotx for the flat file system. I would just use WP but
it doesn't have the flat file system. So if my coding looks odd that is why.

[kenada]

Also if I drop the [[literal]] tags the pop up doesn't show at all, at least for me they do not.
I hate having to ask alot of questions but when I can't get something to work and even after
checking smarty(dot)net and using examples there I have to ask someone.

Here is the page I am working on, http://www.tacticalprofits.com/test2/?p=squeeze-page-test

If you click the the ebook image for the pdf/download image the message pops but look at the message.

i can do this easy in php but I can't figure out what I am doing wrong in smarty.

[Harm10]

Did you try it like this:

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[[ if $page.extrafields.use_fake_download=="on"]]
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" >
function show_alert() {
var msg = "[[$page.extrafields.fake_download_alert_message]]";
alert(msg);
}
</script>
[[/if]]

And if you can do it in php why don't you code it then within the templates? If you switch on allow_php_in_templates in the configuration then you can use the template tag [[ php ]] ........ your php code ......... [[ /php ]]

[kenada]

Yes I have tried it like you have it and the pop up doesn't show up.
All I want is for the popup to show the text stored in that extra field.

I don't know enough about smarty and to make this work and obviously it shows
how little I know.

[kenada]

OK that does work, I am the dumb one here of course.
The problem is it is not recognizing line breaks. So when it sees
one the pop up will not show. I looked at the source and saw
it was showing what wanted. So now I need to figure out how to keep it from
breaking if there is a line break in the text area box.

Here is the original code:

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function show_alert() {
var msg = "<?php
$s = "$fake_download_alert_message";
$find = array('<br />');
$s = str_replace($find, '\n', $s);
echo strip_tags($s, '<br />'); ?>";
alert(msg);
}

Now to do it with smarty. So you know this is int he header template file and is only called when using
the fake download function.