Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] msgbox function and template blocks

[Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r)]

btw, I have subverted common->error_list() to use common->msgbox().
This will make for backwards compatibility and immediately get msgbox
into use.

Dan

"Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r)" wrote:
> 
> I have added a msgbox function to the common class and it is loaded in
> the phpgw_header function.
> 
> basicly if you set some messages in the
> $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['flags']['msgbox_data'] array
> a msgbox will be displayed to the user right below the navbar and before
> the app has a chance to sneak anything above it.
> 
> So an app developer can display the msgbox with info they need to return
> to the user like this:
> 
> $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['flags']['msgbox_data']['Please enter a first
> name']=False;
> 
> As long as they do this before the header is generated, it will appear
> as desired.
> 
> =False indicated that it was an error msg, but you can also set =True
> and that will indicate a positive result, something like this:
> 
> $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['flags']['msgbox_data']['Record Saved']=True;
> 
> A positive message will generally have a green checkmark or something
> like that, depending on the template set. A negative message will have a
> red X or something like that.
> 
> You can also stack messages up. This is the primary benefit of the way
> its designed.
> 
> $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['flags']['msgbox_data']['Please enter a first
> name']=False;
> $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['flags']['msgbox_data']['Please enter a last
> name']=False;
> $GLOBALS['phpgw_info']['flags']['msgbox_data']['Something good had to
> come of this']=True;
> 
> This will generate a msgbox with all three rows properly indicated.
> 
> The template blocks for this are going to be in the common.tpl for each
> template set. only the default template set has one so far and the
> msgbox is pretty basic and ugly, but as each template set starts
> supporting the common.tpl the msgbox will pretty up a great deal.
> 
> Oh!
> App developers can also use the msgbox function directly if they want.
> It will return the msgbox, so you can then output it however works for
> you.
> 
> Seek3r
> 
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