[opencms-dev] contact us form not working in online project
astaffo2 at csc.com.au
astaffo2 at csc.com.au
Thu Feb 27 10:31:05 CET 2003
Further to my email below; I was wondering if it a good work around to
just leave the directory containing the contact Us form out of the static
export.
The /opencms/export/contactUs/contactUs.html obviously doesn't work and
/opencms/opencms/contactUs/contactUs.html does.
When I set the export property for the contactUs directory and
contactUs.html file to 'dynamic' or 'false' the links in my exported files
eg.
<a
href="]]><LINK><![CDATA[/contactUs/contactUs.html]]></LINK><![CDATA[">Contact
Us</a> (like my header and footer files)
still link to /opencms/export/contactUs/contactUs.html
Shouldn't setting this export property in the folder and file and then
publishing make the <LINK> links response and link /opencms/export files
to my /opencms/opencms/contactUs/contactUs/html?
Or do I have to hard code my links?
Your advice is most appreciated.
Regards,
Aaron Stafford
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astaffo2 at csc.com.au
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27/02/03 09:07
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Thank you Petr and Irene for your comments.
I have tried both these methods of setting the non-caching of this
element.
Currently I've implemented the return new CmsCacheDirectives(false); way
of doing it as I feel it covers all my bases in a generic way.
Petr, I am sure my element was picking up the method from the
CmsXmlTemplateX class as it was extending this class and my System out
actually demostrated that the element was executing the new
CmsCacheDirectives call.
I have however taken the getCacheDirectives out of the CmsXmlTemplateX and
placed it into the element class to give that a go, but still nothing is
working.
BTW the opencms.properties element.cache obviously still doesn't work in
v5, so I'll leave it as true.
Everything I read tells me I've done the right thing, but obviously
something is missing. I've noticed that in the offline version of, a
refresh of my form when it is partially filled out will result in the form
being redisplayed empty. Online though redisplays the form with the
fields still populated. This convinces me that this is a really heavy
form of caching.
I'm wondering if anyone has got this working in v5RC2?
Can we get an official response from the OCMS team on this? Has anything
changed regarding the imlementation of cache in this version?
After all my testing various combinations and permutations of these
things, I'm down to simply overiding the getCacheDirectives method in my
element class as such:
public CmsCacheDirectives getCacheDirectives(CmsObject cms,
String templateFile, String elementName, Hashtable parameters,
String templateSelector) {
return new CmsCacheDirectives(false);
}
Thank you for your responses so far, it has been appreciated,
Regards,
Aaron
"Petr Hollay" <ph at ethikom.de>
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26/02/03 19:56
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Hi,
this can work but it makes your Java class dependent on form fields.
The general way as described bellow - return new
CmsCacheDirectives(false) - should work.
Aaron, are you sure you are using your Java class CmsXmlTemplateX for you
element?
You don't need it for frame/content templates, if you have your dynamic
functionality only in this one form handled by element.
Btw. setting element.cache to false makes troubles in OpenCms 4.6, until
now I don't now if it is better in 5 RC2.
Regards
Petr
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-opencms-dev at www.opencms.org
[mailto:owner-opencms-dev at www.opencms.org]On Behalf Of Irene Santerini
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:37 AM
To: opencms-dev at www.opencms.org
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] contact us form not working in online project
Hi Aaron,
I've implemented a form to send email (OpenCms 4.6).
The element.cache variable is set to true in my opencms.properties file.
I've used the method "getCacheDirectives" in this way:
public CmsCacheDirectives getCacheDirectives(
CmsObject cms, String templateFile, String elementName,
Hashtable parameters, String templateSelector) {
Vector para = new Vector();
// new object CmsCacheDirectives
CmsCacheDirectives cd = new
CmsCacheDirectives(true,false,false,false,true);
para.addElement("action");
// my form parameters
para.addElement("name");
para.addElement("tel");
para.addElement("e_mail");
para.addElement("address");
cd.setNoCacheParameters(para);
cd.renewAfterEveryPublish();
return cd;
}
I hope this can help you.
Irene
----- Original Message -----
From: astaffo2 at csc.com.au
To: opencms-dev at www.opencms.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:23 AM
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] contact us form not working in online project
Further to my last email regarding my cache issue:
We're running ocms 5RC2
We are currently extending the CmsXmlTemplate (eg. CmsXmlTemplateX) and
use it for the frame template and the content template.
The element used for the form extends the CmsXmlTemplateX class.
In the CmsXmlTemplateX I include the following overide to the
getCacheDirectives:
public CmsCacheDirectives getCacheDirectives(CmsObject cms,
String templateFile, String elementName, Hashtable
parameters,
String templateSelector) {
System.out.println("in getCacheDirectives: " + templateFile);
return new CmsCacheDirectives(false);
}
I'm using the System.out to prove the method is being overidden and to
tell me which template is calling it.
Assuming the element.cache variable is set to true in the
opencms.properties file (due to the error in my last email); when I hit
my contact us form from the offline project I get three returns from the
System.out:
in getCacheDirectives:
/system/modules/org.opencms.default/frametemplates/myFrame
in getCacheDirectives:
/system/modules/org.opencms.default/contenttemplates/myContent
in getCacheDirectives: /content/elements/contactUs
Which I would expect given the inheritence. And from this the form works
well and sends the emails.
When I access this form from the online version, I get no entries from
the System out (this is even the case when the element.cache is set to
false).
Are there any differences with version 5 RC 2? I've tried returning the
CMSCacheDirectives with specific boolean values and I've tried the
setNoCacheParameters to the parameter "action" which is set when the form
is submitted. None of this has made a difference.
Any help is appreciated.
BTW if you missed my last email, the error message produced when I
request the contact us form from the offline version when elelment,cache
is set to false is:
com.opencms.core.CmsException: 0 Unknown exception. Detailed error: A
relative path has entered the A_CmsXmlContent class.
filename=../frametemplates/secondLevelFrame.
at
com.opencms.template.A_CmsXmlContent.init(A_CmsXmlContent.java:1031)
at
com.opencms.template.CmsXmlTemplateFile.<init>(CmsXmlTemplateFile.java:105)
at
com.opencms.template.CmsXmlTemplate.getOwnTemplateFile(CmsXmlTemplate.java:399)
at
com.opencms.template.CmsXmlTemplate.getContent(CmsXmlTemplate.java:160)
at
com.opencms.template.CmsXmlTemplate.templateElement(CmsXmlTemplate.java:1468)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
......
Regards,
Aaron
"Irene Santerini" <i.santerini at inera.it>
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25/02/03 19:46
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Hi Aaron,
do you have implemented the method "getCacheDirectives" in your class?
Irene.
----- Original Message -----
From: astaffo2 at csc.com.au
To: opencms-dev at opencms.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:25 AM
Subject: [opencms-dev] contact us form not working in online project
Hi all
We've implemented a Contact Us form using the built-in form handling
facility of ocms.
This form utilises the code example set found in the user's guide and
works perfectly in the offline project.
The problem lies in the online project when we publish this form. When
we access the form, it displays fine, but when submitted it flicks back
to the form as a basic html form would behave.
What I'm assuming is that the class isn't being invoked at this point.
Other custom classes we've created are being called happily in the
online project - all the classes including the contact us class are in a
jar file in the WEB-INF/lib directory.
Has anyone experienced this or have any suggestions?
Regards,
Aaron
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