Specific hooks for page template/blueprint

[afbora]

First of all, I have 65 templates in my current project. I can also say that the number will increase.

At first I was using hooks like this:

return [
    'hooks' => [
        'page.update:after' => function ($newPage, $oldPage) {
            $template = $newPage->intendedTemplate();
            switch($template) {
                case "product":
                    // TODO: About price
                    // TODO: About dates
                    // TODO: About attributes
                    // TODO: About images
                    break;
                case "order":
                    // TODO: Something
                    break;
                case "category":
                    // TODO: Something
                    break;
                case "post":
                    // TODO: Something
                    break;
                ...
                ...
                ...
            }
        }
    ]
]

As you can see, it's not handy. It is very difficult to read, update and manage. When things started getting messy, I created a hooks class.

Considering that the pages in Kirby are the most elements, it didn't make sense to collect all the page hooks under one method.

I thought about ways to make it easier. The most important thing separating the pages from each other, page templates/blueprints came to mind.

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Ideas to solve

I would like to give an example of two new uses:

1. Hooks with template name: page.TEMPLATE.update:after or something like that

return [
    'hooks' => [
        'page.project.update:after' => function ($newPage, $oldPage) {
            // your code goes here
        }
    ]
]

2. Assigning an class (Advanced)

class PageProjectUpdateAfter extends \Kirby\Cms\NewHookClass
{
    public function handle($newPage, $oldPage) {
        // TODO
    }
}

return [
    'hooks' => [
        'page.project.update:after' => 'PageProjectUpdateAfter'
    ]
]

Thank you for listening to me again. Stay with Kirby ❤️

[afbora]

You can use this repository until implemented into the Kirby core:

https://github.com/afbora/kirby-template-hooks