My snippets are rendered twice in the layout, and I have trouble with dynamic variables

Rikard J

Hi
I have a problem with my snippets. They are rendered twice and default variables aren't passed. This goes for all of my snippets.

For example, I have made this snippet called "Button"

<a href="%url%" class="uk-button %class%"><span uk-icon="%icon%"> </span>%text%</a>

<p><!-- START: Snippets -->
<a href="/" class="uk-button "><span uk-icon="" class="uk-icon"> </span></a>
<!-- END: Snippets --></p>

But that is not all, the snippet gets rendered twice, and along with it, all other content in that article. Adding more snippets to the same page does not make extra copies of the article. It happens only once regardsless of how many snippets I add to the page (I have only tested up to 5 snippets)

If I pass text to the variables these are used in the rendered view, but the problem with the duplicate content remains.

I have tried to make different snippets, but I get the same result with each one. Even snippets without variables.

I'm using:
Joomla 4.1.3
Snippets 8.3.1 [pro]
php 7.4.29

Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?

Best regards,

Peter van Westen ADMIN

2 years 7 months ago

Peter van Westen ADMIN

2 years 7 months ago

Please use the correct syntax. See:
docs4.regularlabs.com/snippets/going-fur...ing-dynamic-snippets

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Rikard J

2 years 7 months ago

Rikard J

2 years 7 months ago

Hi Peter, I really thought that I had gotten the syntax correct. I can't see what I am doing wrong comparing my snippet to the examples. To to be extra sure, I made an exact copy from the example page, copy/paste. I still get the duplicate.

On my article:

{snippet alias="copyright" year="2019" company="My Company"}

In the snippet:

%year% - %company% - All rights reserved

and the variables are defined as:

year

company

The rendered page's HTML looks like:

<div class="uk-width-2-3@m uk-first-column">           
<h1> test </h1>
<div class="uk-panel uk-text-meta uk-margin">Monday, May 16</div>
<div class="uk-panel uk-text-lead uk-margin">
<p><!-- START: Snippets -->2019 - My Company - All rights reserved<!-- END: Snippets --></p>
</div><div class="uk-panel uk-margin">
<p><!-- START: Snippets -->2019 - My Company - All rights reserved<!-- END: Snippets --></p>
</div></div>

Best regards

Peter van Westen ADMIN

2 years 7 months ago

Peter van Westen ADMIN

2 years 7 months ago

Ok, I thought you were using bars ('|') to separate the variables.

Not sure why it is outputting twice.

Can you give me (super) admin and (s)ftp access so I can take a look?
And tell me on what url I can see/reproduce the issue.
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Rikard J

2 years 7 months ago

Rikard J

2 years 7 months ago

Thank you Peter.
Sorry I wasn't clear that the bars were just a graphical element here to separate the variable from the default value. Please find the requested information below.

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Best regards,

Peter van Westen ADMIN

2 years 7 months ago

Peter van Westen ADMIN

2 years 7 months ago

This seems to be down to your template.
It doesn't matter what content you place in the article, it is displayed twice.
Try replacing it with 'abc'.

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Rikard J

2 years 7 months ago

Rikard J

2 years 7 months ago

Oh my, that's so embarrasing, I am so very sorry that I bothered you. The problem was indeed the template and it was an easy fix. The duplication is now gone. I also see that I need to completely remove variables from the tag to use the default value, which means that

{snippet alias="button" url="" class="" icon="" text=""}

is different from

{snippet alias="button" }

Now that I understand that, everything is working like a charm.

Thank you very much for your help and sorry again that I bothered you.

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