Template script.js does not work

[selfthinker]

As reported by Jan Kreps 2011/03/16 12:38 on http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:loadskin#template_scriptjs_does_not_work_without_doku_tplinc :

I noticed small trouble with javascript loading. All lib/tpl//script.js should be loaded at the start. But because I commented out part of init.php definig DOKU_TPLINC as suggested, script.js in template directory does not get loaded. It's because DOKU_TPLINC constant is needed when list of scripts to include is generated. It is in lib/exe/js.php in function js_out().

[selfthinker]

Since DOKU_TPLINC has been deprecated, things have changed a bit (see dokuwiki/dokuwiki@c476695 and dokuwiki/dokuwiki@81aca18).

I have just tried to fix it, but found the following problems:

• When setting the template by anonymous user, that template preference is set in the session. There is no session in lib/exe/js.php, so this won't work.
• When setting the template by logged-in user, that template preference is set in a config file, but to get the logged-in user, you need the session again. So, no luck here as well.
• When setting the template by namespace, the $ID is necessary for that (to check which namespace is viewed). But as the $ID is not available in lib/exe/js.php, this also won't work.

So, with the current existing solutions it's not possible to make a template's script.js work. This needs either some changes in the core or some clever new solution I couldn't think of yet.

[selfthinker]

I found a solution, but only by changing the core, see dokuwiki/dokuwiki#1130.

[selfthinker]

This is now fixed in the current development version of the core DokuWiki.
But I will keep this issue open until a new stable release is out.

[selfthinker]

As there is a new release of DokuWiki now, this can finally be closed.