How can you declare a new asset in Vanilla?

whu606

Vanilla obviously has pre-defined assets, such as Head, Content, Panel, etc.

How can I declare a new asset, so that I can use it in my Vanilla site?

Todd

Okay, so I assume you know how to render assets?

Using smarty:

{asset name="MyAsset"}

Using php:

$this->RenderAsset('MyAsset');

So in your controller method you just need to add a string or Gdn_Module asset:

$this->AddAsset("MyAsset", "Hello World!");

or

$Module = new Gdn_SomeModule();
$this->AddAsset("MyAsset", $Module);

Todd

Okay, so I assume you know how to render assets?

Using smarty:

{asset name="MyAsset"}

Using php:

$this->RenderAsset('MyAsset');

So in your controller method you just need to add a string or Gdn_Module asset:

$this->AddAsset("MyAsset", "Hello World!");

or

$Module = new Gdn_SomeModule();
$this->AddAsset("MyAsset", $Module);

whu606

@Todd

Thanks for getting back so quickly!

peregrine

thanks @Todd. nice to see these pearls of wisdom every once in a while - it gives us inspiration and helps us understand the inner workings better.

whu606

I wasn't quite sure how to implement Todd's suggestion, but in searching how to, I found this code snippet which did what I was looking for

public function AddAsset($AssetContainer, $Asset, $AssetName = 'NEWASSETNAME') {
      if (is_object($AssetName)) {
         return FALSE;
      } else if ($AssetName == 'NEWASSETNAME') {
         $this->Assets[$AssetContainer][] = $Asset;
      } else {
         if (isset($this->Assets[$AssetContainer][$AssetName]))
            $this->Assets[$AssetContainer][$AssetName] .= $Asset;
         else
            $this->Assets[$AssetContainer][$AssetName] = $Asset;
      }

which I added in to my plugin.php file.

whu606

For future reference, Todd's solution was as simple as adding the line he suggested after

public function Base_Render_Before($Sender) {

My plugin (modeled on the Adding some jQuery to a plugin example in the Wiki)

already had

public function Base_Render_Before($Sender) { $this->AddJsCss($Sender);

so all I needed to do was add the lines there:

public function Base_Render_Before($Sender) { $this->AddJsCss($Sender); $this->AddAsset("MyAsset", "Category"); $this->AddAsset("MyAsset", "Table");

peregrine

nice followup.