Linguica Posted March 10, 2017 Posted March 10, 2017 I wanted to add in a thing to make every user see quotes of themselves in a different color so it was more immediately noticeable. The obvious way to do this was to add a customized CSS rule to every user's CSS that would be processed by the templating engine. However, it doesn't seem that the available shortcuts can be inserted into a template by their actual variable, just as part of the HTML logic if-else or foreach or whatever. Trying to insert {member.member_id} resulted in that literal text being inserted, and trying {$member.member_id} gave an error. I managed to get around this by immediately assigning the shortcut variable I cared about to a *second* variable inside of a pointless logic check and then inserting that one, which worked well enough: {{if member.member_id}} [data-ipsquote-userid="{{if $id = member.member_id}}{$id}{{endif}}"]{ background: #173747; } {{endif}} This seems pretty messy and hacky to me though, and I am just wondering if I overlooked something and there is a more straightforward way of doing this.
BomAle Posted March 10, 2017 Posted March 10, 2017 check template plugin guide... {member="member_id"}
Linguica Posted March 10, 2017 Author Posted March 10, 2017 Doesn't work. Which is kind of funny, since it clearly *does* work if you use a hacky way of accessing it... but now I am wondering if I am subtly breaking something by doing this.
Linguica Posted March 10, 2017 Author Posted March 10, 2017 And a quick test shows that my suspicion was correct: if you do that hack to put a member-specific variable into a CSS file, and then the user logs out, the guest user will still see the original user's posts highlighted for as long as the CSS is locally cached. I guess I'll just inline it in the HTML head: {{if member.member_id}}<style>[data-ipsquote-userid="{member="member_id"}"]{ background: #173747; }</style>{{endif}} I guess this goes to show that just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should
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