Reliable way of inserting <mvt:item />??

[moriano]

Hello to everybody.

I am a little new in the miva world, so I hope this post has sense :).

Basically I am writting a module which must insert some <mv:item/> tags in certain pages, my doubt is, how can I do that in a way that I can be sure the tag was correctly inserted?

The first attemp i used was this. Lets say I want to insert something into the SFNT page, and lets say that by default SFNT contains the text "MY_TEXT", then i could use glosub() function in this way

globsub('MY_TEXT', 'MY_TEXT', 'MY_TEXT' $ <mvt:item name="myItem" >)

The problem with that approach is that although 'MY_TEXT' may be at the SFNT page in the default installation, if the shop owner has customized it and removed the 'MY_TEXT' chain, then no replace will be performed by the globsub() function and the <mvt:item name="myItem" /> will not be inserted.

So, anybody knows if there is a better approach for this?.

Thanks in advance.

[wcw]

Re: Reliable way of inserting &lt;mvt:item /&gt;??

Inserting tokens into pages is totally unreliable unless it will always be a brand new, unaltered store. Removing them when uninstalling a module is just as precarious.

[moriano]

Re: Reliable way of inserting &lt;mvt:item /&gt;??

That what's I suspected... Thanks a lot for your help :)

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Reliable way of inserting &lt;mvt:item /&gt;??

...and the only alternative is the call the Original Template, Replace there, then Insert (and adding a note that you did that)...however, likely, as William was eluding to, piss off more store owners than writing clear instructions that explain what to do...especially if its just a few items.