[MOD] - VirtualQMod "vQmod" Virtual File Modification System

ocnewby wrote: It appears that in vQmod one needs to specify a specific occurrence of a shorter piece of code and then replace a block of text rather than positively identifying the actual code in the middle

My post actually had several related issues.
1. How to search for text using vQmod that spans multiple lines of code.
2. What is the difference when text is displayed in a long concatenated string or formatted/indented like a programmer editor. eg: basic windows notepad VS Notepad2
3. Am I changing the code text if I copy the long concatenated string into notepad 2, and then paste it back to notepad for re-upload to the server?
4. If I am changing the actual code text in statement 3., then would I be breaking my vQmod operation by doing that?

Maybe a future revision of vQmod could specify a search that specified a start text, and an end text and that would more positively identify a section of code? Actually as I type this that sounds like a good way to bypass cr/lf issues.

public function test() {
    if ($x=$y) {
        echo 'something';
    }
}

Xsecrets wrote:maybe just add to the instructions that you should only have one file tag per file within the same mod. I really don't see why you would want multiple file tags for the same file anyways. You can do multiple operations within the same tag.

JAY6390 wrote:That would work for replaces, but with the "after" surely it would still have the same problem

    <!-- Do Edit #1 -->
    <file name="admin/view/template/common/header.tpl">
        <operation>
            <search position="before" index="1,2,5,6,9"><![CDATA[
            ...search #1
            ]]></search>
            <add><![CDATA[
            ...insert #1
            ]]></add>
        </operation>
    </file>

openmycart.com wrote: My another issue:
I tried in my client's hosting, it won't work, the cache temporary file didn't create,all .xml files sample included but also won't work, when i open the vqcache folder, i Found only
vqcache_system_engine_controller.php
vqcache_system_engine_front.php
vqcache_system_engine_loader.php
vqcache_system_library_language.php
vqcache_system_startup.php

Qphoria wrote: This can happen for a number of reasons:
- You are not loading the page that uses the xml. Like if you have a mod for the product page, the file wont change on the homepage

Qphoria wrote: - The file may not exist due to a typo in the xml file. This will show up in the log

Qphoria wrote: - The operation could not be completed so it reverted back to the original file

Qphoria wrote: - The operation may appear to not be working if the xml file has a change for the "default" theme but store uses a different theme. I am working on trying to get wildcards to work for things like that in the next version

openmycart.com wrote: 2011-02-12 19:57:15.5307920 - LIST OF NON-EXISTANT SOURCE FILES REFERENCED IN THE SCRIPTS:
2011-02-12 19:57:15.5307990 - /home/xxxx/public_html/admin/controller/catalog/product.php
2011-02-12 19:57:15.5308060 - /home/xxxx/public_html/admin/language/english/catalog/product.php
2011-02-12 19:57:15.5308130 - /home/xxxx/public_html/admin/model/catalog/product.php
2011-02-12 19:57:15.5308200 - /home/xxxx/public_html/admin/view/template/catalog/product_list.tpl
2011-02-12 19:57:15.5308270 - BEGIN MODS...
2011-02-12 19:57:15.5309990 - -----------------------------------------------------

from the log file it look like the files unlisted because the admin folder read as "admin" instead of e.g. "admin123" but from it the vqmod.php read .xml file correctly, CMIIW

Qphoria wrote: Well this seems to be it right here. If you've renamed your admin folder to admin123 then it won't find it. You need to update the xml file to look for admin123

fido-x wrote:Maybe something like this:

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<!-- Do Edit #1 -->
<file name="admin/view/template/common/header.tpl">
    <operation>
        <search position="after" index="1"><![CDATA[
        ...search #1
        ]]></search>
        <add><![CDATA[
        ...insert #1
        ]]></add>
    </operation>
</file>

<!-- Do Edit #2 -->
<file name="admin/controller/common/home.php">
    <operation>
        <search position="after" index="1"><![CDATA[
        ...search #2
        ]]></search>
        <add><![CDATA[
        ...insert #2
        ]]></add>
    </operation>
</file>

<file name="admin/view/template/common/header.tpl">
    <operation>
        <search position="after" index="2"><![CDATA[
        ...search #3
        ]]></search>
        <add><![CDATA[
        ...insert #3
        ]]></add>
    </operation>
</file> 

By changing the index to "2" in the second operation on "admin/view/template/common/header.tpl ", the insert should go in after the second occurrence of the search parameter.