NEW: Route Names in Templates

[Tim Camara]

Coming with the next push is a new template feature, the ability to reference the name of the route directly in the template.  You can use this new feature as simply as:

$[route.name]
Or, if you want a little extra information, you can do something more like this:

{if $[route.name] == 'user'}{if $[route.params.user_id] == 1}I'm viewing the admin's profile!{/if}{/if}
$[route] acts as a template version of the proboards.data('route'); that some of you may already be familiar with, and may be used in exactly the same ways.  Because $[route.params] does not always contain the same data on every page, you will not see the possible options in the template editor.  Instead, we recommend checking the JavaScript variable on the page of the template you are modifying.

Happy templating!

[David Clark]

Not really, jrryan - the route variable is more about determining where the current user is on the forum.

Looking at Tim's example, the text "I'm viewing the admin's profile!" would only appear on the admin's profile because when the "$[route.name]"  outputs "user" it means that the current user is looking at a profile, and when $[route.params.user_id] outputs 1, it means the profile being viewed is the admin's (as the admin always has the I.D. "1", being the first user to exist on the forum).

[Former Member]

Would something like this be useful in a role playing forum?I'm still trying to figure out the purpose of templates as opposed to plug-ins.Im pushing myself more in learning the coding of proboards.I want to be more helpful.

[Tim Camara]

This could be used by any type of forum. It basically just allows the template to easily have a way of determining the current URL. What you do with the information is entirely up to you.