Author Topic: CRMAPI in Smarty (Read 1306 times)

Chris Burgess · April 04, 2013, 02:01:56 pm

One of my favourite moments is realising an opinion I hold is wrong.

I had a long-standing grudge against working in CiviCRM's Smarty templates from early CiviCRM days, but a few days ago I was asked by a client to give him a little tuition on how to add to the contact summary template to show the member's membership type, status and join date.

{crmapi} syntax made this really easy to throw together quickly, and he was happy to take it from there. I was impressed.

Smarty, I still think you're a bit weird, but you're not half as bad as I thought. Well done CiviCRM team! Thanks.

developer · April 10, 2013, 07:00:41 am

yes it is. specially the way ajax/doc is simply superb to get the php, smarty and Jquery codes in one go

you are really interesting Civi

Eileen · April 10, 2013, 01:40:55 pm

I'm hopeful that for 4.4 we will be able to add things to screens using regions - which will take us further from smarty over-rides

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC43/Region+Reference
http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-12023

(I have backported the proposal I put up into 4.2 & will do so for 4.3 too because at least it makes adding stuff to the summary screen portable between our customers & I only have to maintain a very minor customisation in our main deployment repo)

xavier · April 10, 2013, 09:55:35 pm

Thanks for the compliments, glad to see it's useful and appreciated

Another trick added on {crmAPI} I find handy: if you omit the var param, it returns the result as a json. If you need the data for js, it saves you an extra request compared to (ab)using CRM.api, eg

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<script>
var contact={crmapi entity="contact" id=$cid action="getsingle" return="last_name,email"};//never ever do a contact.get without defining what fields you want
// now the javascript var contains the data from the api, ready as soon as you load the page

As for the region, another workaround that works fine (eg. when using {crmapi} from a .extra.tpl) is to use jQuery to move the html generated to the position you want.

eg

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<div id="extrastuff">
//lots of content fetched with crmapi and put here
</div>
<script>
{literal}
cj(function($){
  if ($("#crm-demographic-content").length == 0)
    return;
  $("#extrastuff").appendTo("#crm-demographic-content");// and moved within the content
});
</script>

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