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Popups 2.0-alpha5
author Franck Deroche <franck@defr.org>
date Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:41:08 +0100
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franck@0 1 This module gives Drupal the ability to easily change links into popup dialog boxes.
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franck@0 3 IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS
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franck@0 5 Ajax updating only works with themes that have selectable content areas.
franck@0 6 If you are not using garland, you will need to figure out the selector for your theme,
franck@0 7 and enter it into the "Content Selector" field on the admin/build/themes/settings page
franck@0 8 for your theme. Open the page.tpl.php file for your theme, and search for "print $content".
franck@0 9 The $content should be surrounded by a div with an id. Ex:
franck@0 10 <div id="content-content">
franck@0 11 <?php print $content; ?>
franck@0 12 </div> <!-- /content-content -->
franck@0 13 In this case, just enter '#content-content' into the Content Selector field.
franck@0 14 Unfortunately, a lot of themes do not have well defined content areas. Just add the div yourself,
franck@0 15 and then complain on the issue queue for the theme. It is important that there are no other
franck@0 16 print statements inside the div.
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franck@0 18 LIMITATIONS
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franck@0 20 Is this still true? Does not work with tinymce. Unlikely to work with other WYSIWYG's.
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franck@0 22 HOW TO USE THE POPUPS API
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franck@0 24 If you just want to use the built in admin links, just enable the Popups: Admin Links
franck@0 25 module and you are good to go.
franck@0 26 If you want to add popups behavior to new links, or incorporate popups into your module,
franck@0 27 there are a couple of ways to do it.
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franck@0 29 #1) Attach popup behavior to a link with popups_add_popups() call.
franck@0 30 ----------------------------------------------------------------
franck@0 31 <!-- In html or theme -->
franck@0 32 <a href="popups/test/response" id="mylink">
franck@0 33 <a href="popups/test/response" id="mylink2">
franck@0 34
franck@0 35 // In your module
franck@0 36 popups_add_popups(array('#mylink', '#mylink2=>array('width'=>'200px')));
franck@0 37 IMPORTANT: You can only put popups_add_popups in module, NOT in a .tpl file
franck@0 38 or the template.php file.
franck@0 39 This is the simplest method if you want to pass in per-link options.
franck@0 40 The first key is a jQuery selector. It should select an 'a' element (unless you
franck@0 41 are using the 'href' option). See http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors to learn more
franck@0 42 about jQuery selectors.
franck@0 43 The array is a set of Options. See below for the list of options.
franck@0 44 No array means just use the defualts.
franck@0 45
franck@0 46 #2) Add the class="popup" to an existing link.
franck@0 47 -------------------------------------------
franck@0 48 And then either be sure popups_add_popups() is called sometime for the page,
franck@0 49 or use the "Scan all pages for popup links" checkbox on the popups settings page.
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franck@0 51 Example on the theme level ("Scan all pages for popups links" must be checked):
franck@0 52 <a href="popups/test/response" class="popups">
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franck@0 54 Example in code:
franck@0 55 popups_add_popups();
franck@0 56 $output .= l("Pop up entire local page.", 'popups/test/response', array('attributes'=>array('class' => 'popups')));
franck@0 57
franck@0 58 Here are the classes that you can use:
franck@0 59 class="popups" requests an informational popup (or a form that doesn't want ajax processing).
franck@0 60 class="popups-form" requests a popup with a form that modifies the content of the original page.
franck@0 61 class="popups-form-reload" requests a popup with a form, and reloads the entire page when done.
franck@0 62 class="popups-form-noupdate" requests a popup with a form, and leaves the original page as-is.
franck@0 63
franck@0 64 You can use the pseudo-attribute, "on-popups-options" to send options, if you don't mind having non-validating HTML.
franck@0 65 Note: this attribute gets removed from user content by the HTML filter.
franck@0 66 Example:
franck@0 67 print l("Pop with options (width=200px).", 'popups/test/response',
franck@0 68 array('attributes'=>array(array('class' => 'popups', 'on-popups-options' => '{width: "200px"}'))))
franck@0 69 See popups_test.module for more examples.
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franck@0 71 #3) Add a custom module that implements hook_popups().
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franck@0 73 hook_popups() returns an array of popup rules, keyed by the id of a form,
franck@0 74 or the url of a page (which can use the wildcard '*').
franck@0 75 Each rule is an array of options, keyed by a jQuery selector.
franck@0 76 Leaving off the options array is equal to a link with class="popup-form".
franck@0 77 This is equivent to using a series of popup_add_popups() calls.
franck@0 78
franck@0 79 Rule Format Example:
franck@0 80 'admin/content/taxonomy' => array( // Act only on the links on this page.
franck@0 81 'div#tabs-wrapper a:eq(1)', // No options, so use defaults.
franck@0 82 'table td:nth-child(2) a' => array(
franck@0 83 'noUpdate' => true, // Popup will not modify original page.
franck@0 84 ),
franck@0 85 );
franck@0 86
franck@0 87 #4) Make your module alter the default popup rules with hook_popups_alter().
franck@0 88 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
franck@0 89 hook_popups_alter() allows you to modify how the popup rules are
franck@0 90 registered. This is useful to modify the default behavior of some
franck@0 91 already existing popup rules.
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franck@0 93 See hook_popups_alter() in popups.api.php for an example.
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franck@0 95
franck@0 96 LIST OF POPUP OPITIONS
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franck@0 98 DEPRECATED OPTIONS
franck@0 99 // noUpdate: Does the popup NOT modify the original page (Default: FALSE).
franck@0 100 // reloadWhenDone: Force the entire page to reload after the popup form is submitted (Default: FALSE)
franck@0 101 // nonModel: Not working.
franck@0 102 // forceReturn: url to force a stop to work flow (Advanced. Use in conjunction with noUpdate or targetSelectors).
franck@0 103 // afterSubmit: function to call when updating after successful form submission.
franck@0 104
franck@0 105 doneTest: how do we know when the multiform flow is done?
franck@0 106 null: flow is done when returned path = original path (default).
franck@0 107 *path*:
franck@0 108 *regexp*: done when returned path matches regexp.
franck@0 109 updateMethod:
franck@0 110 none: do not update the initial page
franck@0 111 ajax: targeted replacement of parts of the initial page (default).
franck@0 112 reload: full replacement of initial page with new page.
franck@0 113 callback: use onUpdate(data, options, element).
franck@0 114 updateSource (only used if updateMethod is not none):
franck@0 115 initial: use the initial page (default).
franck@0 116 final: use the path returned at the end of the multiform flow.
franck@0 117 href: Override the href in the a element, or attach an href to a non-link element.
franck@0 118 width: Override the width specified in the css.
franck@0 119 targetSelectors: Hash of jQuery selectors that define the content to be swapped out.
franck@0 120 titleSelectors: Array of jQuery selectors to place the new page title.
franck@0 121 reloadOnError: Force the entire page to reload if the popup href is unaccessable (Default: FALSE)
franck@0 122 noMessage: Don't show drupal_set_message messages.
franck@0 123 onUpdate: function to call when updating after successful form submission.
franck@0 124 skipDirtyCheck: If true, this popup will not check for edits on the originating page.
franck@0 125 Often used with custom target selectors. Redundant is noUpdate is true. (Default: FALSE)
franck@0 126 hijackDestination: Use the destiination param to force a form submit to return to the originating page.
franck@0 127 Overwrites any destination already set one the link (Default: TRUE)
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