Injecting Variables into Text Content

>
> G’day Magnolians,
>
> It’s been a while since I’ve emailed to this list. I’ve been busy
> demoing and presenting Magnolia to some of our clients. The feedback
> is awesome.
>
> A question that has come up a number of times from our clients is with
> respect to blending text retrieved from a database with text entered
> via a content author. Similar to the way the forms module works in
> that confirmation emails and thank you pages can embed content
> submitted through the form in emails or pages (see
> http://demoauthor.magnolia-cms.com/demo-project/service/contact.html,
> Edit Form Settings -> Confirmation E-Mail).
>
> I wanted to get some feedback on the best way to do this. In our case,
> we’ll always be using JSP templates – not Freemaker. Imagine I have a
> magnolia based website where the customers can log into. After logging
> in we want to display a page that contains a welcome paragraph such as:
>
> <p>Hi ${nickname} – welcome back. You last logged in on
> ${lastLoginDate} and your account balance is currently
> ${accountBalance}.</p>
>
> The key is we want the welcome message to be content managed – not
> hardcoded. Basically we want to expose a bunch of pre-determined
> variables that content authors can embed where ever they like inside
> text based paragraphs. Assume these variables are previously loaded
> into HTTP session scope through some filter.
>
> How would you do this?
>
> I can think of two ways but maybe there are easier ways:
>
> 1. Write our own JSP Custom Tag that replaces the ${xx} found in
> content with corresponding session variables prior to writing the
> content to the response stream.
>
> 2. Write our own base paragraph renderer that does the same as the
> custom tag.
>
> Is there any easier way?
>
> Hopefully I’ve explained myself well enough.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brent**
>
>
>
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>
> G'day Magnolians,
>
> It's been a while since I've emailed to this list. I've been busy
> demoing and presenting Magnolia to some of our clients. The feedback
> is awesome.
>
> A question that has come up a number of times from our clients is with
> respect to blending text retrieved from a database with text entered
> via a content author. Similar to the way the forms module works in
> that confirmation emails and thank you pages can embed content
> submitted through the form in emails or pages (see
> http://demoauthor.magnolia-cms.com/demo-project/service/contact.html,
> Edit Form Settings -> Confirmation E-Mail).
>
> I wanted to get some feedback on the best way to do this. In our case,
> we'll always be using JSP templates - not Freemaker. Imagine I have a
> magnolia based website where the customers can log into. After logging
> in we want to display a page that contains a welcome paragraph such as:
>
> <p>Hi ${nickname} - welcome back. You last logged in on
> ${lastLoginDate} and your account balance is currently
> ${accountBalance}.</p>
>
> The key is we want the welcome message to be content managed - not
> hardcoded. Basically we want to expose a bunch of pre-determined
> variables that content authors can embed where ever they like inside
> text based paragraphs. Assume these variables are previously loaded
> into HTTP session scope through some filter.
>
> How would you do this?
>
> I can think of two ways but maybe there are easier ways:
>
> 1. Write our own JSP Custom Tag that replaces the ${xx} found in
> content with corresponding session variables prior to writing the
> content to the response stream.
>
> 2. Write our own base paragraph renderer that does the same as the
> custom tag.
>
> Is there any easier way?
>
> Hopefully I've explained myself well enough.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brent**
>
>
>
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