I am converting a WebGUI based site to mojoPortal. The WebGUI CMS has a feature to embed parameterized macros in the html content which get expanded at the server into plain html.

Something like this:  ^mymacro(parameters);

This get executed at the server and returns some html.

I am looking for a similar function in mojoPortal. The closest I could find are the content templates but they dont provide parameters.

Any suggestions ?

Lex

Hello Joe,

I am converting a Chess related site. The site contains many articles with chess diagrams, to enter a diagram in a article I insert a macro like this:

^fen("rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w - - 1 1");

The macro is actually some php that takes the parameter and renders it into a html table and some gif images. The parameter string is a representation of the chess position.

I have got another macro that take the url of a chess game and converts it into a java applet which displays the game.  I have got other macros but these are either static text or references to images.

In the WebGUI CMS the macro is just some php script that gets executed to do the token replacement.  The system has also some standard macros for inserting thing like username, company name, navigation etc.

The content templates are nice for just static text but lack the parameter processing.

So any suggestions ?

Lex

Thanks for the suggestion. Although it may work, I don't like the idea of the extra postback.

I found a workaround in some javascript that does the rendering of the board, in the htmlcontrol I insert something like this:

<div id="board1">
<script>chessObj.loadFen('rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w - - 0 1','board1');</script>

Its not as nice as a macro but it works. Disadvantage is that I  have to edit the pages in source mode.

Lex