Is it possible to create a custom variable in CMS Made Simple that could be set in one template and then this value would be available in another template for the same site?
Edit:
I forgot to add that the template I want to set the variable in is using a different domain, although it is the same site. This means I can't use cookies or session vars.
You can use the smarty assign or capture system:
{assign var="foo" value="bar"}
{capture name="foo"}bar{/capture}
Please note that this depends on the order of the templates are executed. For example, in most scenarios, everything inside is executed before everything inside from the main template.
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According to the latest Django Documentation for templates namaspace, we should put our templates in the order.
app/templates/app/template_files
But the default location it looks for templates is app/templates/, why not simply create a template file in templates sub-folder ?
Template namespacing
Now we might be able to get away with putting our templates directly in polls/templates (rather than creating another polls subdirectory), but it would actually be a bad idea. Django will choose the first template it finds whose name matches, and if you had a template with the same name in a different application, Django would be unable to distinguish between them. We need to be able to point Django at the right one, and the easiest way to ensure this is by namespacing them. That is, by putting those templates inside another directory named for the application itself.
According to the explanation give in the documentation my approach would lead to ambiguity. so let's say we have two apps viz.
app1 & app2 and they have index.html in app/templates/ path, why can't django distinguish between two different path - /app1/templates/index.html & /app2/templates/index.html ?
I’m new to Crystal (and never really used ruby) so apologies for the ignorance here! I've looked at the ecr docs but can't seem to find an answer there.
I’m looking at using Embedded Crystal for dynamic templates in Kemal. Can I confirm - can templates only render variables that are available in the scope of the call, or can one make method/function calls from within the template itself? I.E. is there any possibility/risk of being able to execute “malicious” crystal code from within a template (in this case malicious refers to I/O or file access etc)?
To take an example from the Kemal docs:
get "/:name" do |env|
name = env.params.url["name"]
render "src/views/hello.ecr"
end
In the view hello.ecr - is name the only item that will be available in the template, or could one call File.delete("./foo")from within the template for example?
A template is compiled into Crystal code, you can write any kind of code in there, like File.delete("./foo"), for example if you write <% File.delete("./foo") %> inside of your template.
If your worry is that name will contain code and that will somehow get executed, then don't worry, that's not going to happen. Dynamic runtime code execution in Crystal is not possible, so there's no way someone will inject malicious code into your templates.
I have an html file which is the base,where other html documents extends.Its a static page but i want to have variable in the menu.I don't think it's wise to create a view for it,since i don't intend to let users visit the base alone.So where in my project can I store site-wide dynamic variables that can be called on any page without explicitly stating them in their views.
Thank you in advance.
For user specific variables, use session.
For global constants (not variables!), use settings.py.
For global variables, consider to store it in database so it can be multithreading & multiprocess safe.
I looked around and saw different approaches,but one that doesn't compromise the DRY philosophy the most for me is registering a tag in your project then input it in the base template.Its neater See here https://stackoverflow.com/a/21062774/6629594 for an example
Storage can take any number of places, I put mine in a stats model in the db so you get all the goodness of that (and make it easy to access in views).
I then have a context processor written as so:
#context_processors.py:
def my_custom_context_processor(request):
return {'custom_context_variable1':'foo','custom_context_variable2':'bar'}
Add this to your context processors in settings.py:
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
...
"my_app.context_processors.ny_custom_context_processor",
)
Provided you use render() to render your templates you can then you can just use:
{{ custom_context_variable1 }}
to return 'foo' in your template. Obviously returning strings is for example only, you can use anything you like so long as your context processor returns a dict.
you can also try using php pages.
Then acces the variable on each page with an include 'file containing the var.php' on every page.
None of this will be visible in the source html as it is only processed on the server side.
If you you would like to try this, mail me and I will send you some sample code.
I'm just starting out with ColdFusion OOP and I am wanting to make a DIV which shows different links to users depending on what page they are on and what login rights (role) they have. Basically a 'context' menu.
Should I put this toolbar/navigation DIV in a .cfm or .cfc file?
To reiterate; The cfm or cfc file needs to know what page the user is on and will also check what role they have. Depending on these two pieces of information it will display a set of links to the user. The role information comes from the database and stored in a SESSION variable, and to find out what page they are on I guess it could use #GetFileFromPath(GetBaseTemplatePath())#.
My first thought was to have a normal .cfm file, put all the presentation and logic in that file (the HTML and lots of <cfif> statements) to ensure the correct information is displayed in the DIV, and then use <cfinclude> to display it on the page. Then I started thinking maybe I should make a Custom Tag and ask the calling page to pass in the user's credentials and the #GetFileFromPath(GetBaseTemplatePath())# as arguments and then have that Custom Tag return all the presentational data.
Finally I guess a CFC could do the above as well, but I'd be breaking the 'rule' of having presentational and logic data in a CFC.
Any suggestions on the best practice to achieve what I'm trying to do? It will eventually serve thousands of customers so I need to make sure my solution is easy to scale.
Anything that outputs HTML to the screen should be in a .cfm file.
That being said, depending on your need, you could have methods in a CFC that generate HTML, but the method simply returns the HTML as a string.
In programming, there are very few absolutes, but here is one: You should NEVER directly output anything inside of a function or method by using output="true". Instead, whatever content is generated, it should be returned from the method.
If you will have a need to use this display element more than once, a custom tag might be the best way to go rather than an include.
I see security as being a combination of what menu items I can see and what pages can be ran.
The main security function is inside of the main session object
On the menus
I call a function called
if (session.objState.checkSecurity(Section, Item) == 1)
then ...
For page security
function setupRequest() {
...
if (session.objState.checkSecurity(getSection(), getItem()) == 0) {
location("#request.self#?message=LoginExpired", "no");
return;
}
...
}
The particulars of what checkSecurity can do varies from application to application, but it is tied into how FW/1 works. The following security variations exist:
session.objState.checkSecurity(getSection())
session.objState.checkSecurity(getSection(), getItem())
session.objState.checkSecurity(getSection(), getItem(), Identifier)
None of the presentation files know anything about security.
Rules by which I live:) :
No CF business logic in CFM files. Just use some service which will serve template and provide needed data.
navService = com.foobar.services.Navigation(form, url);
and later output #navService.GetNavConent()#
No direct output from CFC files, functions should always return content. For example, make one function which makes one link based on some logic, second which wraps that and returns to cfm template.
Also one more hint, avoid using application and session scopes in your services.
This makes refactoring, testing and debugging too difficult.
For session you can make session.currentUser , CurrentUser.cfc which provides all things you need. e.g. session.currentUser.isAuthorized("backend/administration") and if true, show link to backend/administration.
Same for application, if you need locale, applicaiton wide setting or some singleton, make application.applicationSettings, ApplicationSettings.cfc and use that to retrieve all info you need in cfc's.
These rules will make your application to be easier to test and debug, and really easy to migrate tomorrow on some javascript based UI like Angular or backbone.js since all th edata you need is already in CFC and theoretically you just need to put remote in CFC or make some remote facade in the middle and you're done.
I'm creating a DB web application with grails for my company and found myself in the need to change the default scaffolding templates.
So far so good, everything gets generated with the modified templates (controllers, views, ..).
Now, however, I get a request to create some "composite screens" with functionalities and a layout that differ from the overwritten templates.
So now my question is: is it possible in grails to create one or more templates (next the the default one) and pass this template name as an argument to the generate-* commands?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: Adding the template name to the generate commands was just an idea, if it's possible to do this a different way, I'll be happy too.
Grails commands are scripts in grails/scripts. If you follow its logic you will see two things.
1) There is only one parameter passed to the script → domain.
2) Class for generating views is DefaultGrailsTemplateGenerator. You can analyse sourcecode and check what this class offers.
Update
Link to DefaultGrailsTemplateGenerator in GitHub.
I am not sure about the generate command parameters, but if you add another .gsp page into scaffolding directory, I believe it will try to run it through generation process.
So for example I used to have a show.gsp page as well as showBasic.gsp page, which showed fewer properties.