Snippets

Description

With Snippets you can include text snippets in your content. You can make reusable snippets (pieces of text/content) and include them into your content via a tag, like {snippet my-first-snippet}

If you edit the article (or module or wherever you put the tag), you will still see the tag. But on frontend view you will see the content of the snippet instead.

You can use this to insert much used content for instance. Then, if you change the content of the snippet, it changes everywhere you have used the tag.

The Snippets tag

The Snippets editor button will help you insert Snippets tag. You don't have to use this, you can also just type the tag directly into your content. The tags look like:

{snippet snippet-id}

So to place a snippet you have given the id 'copyright', you would have to place:

{snippet copyright}

Using dynamic snippets

You can pass along 'variables' with the tag which can be placed inside the snippet. This way you can use one snippet and it will generate different output, depending on what you pass along in the tag.

Then in the Snippet itself, you can put placeholders for variables with \1, \2, etc. So in the copyright example, your Snippet could look like:

©\2 - \1 - All rights reserved

You can pass along variables in the tag like:

{snippet copyright|My Company|2012}

This would output:

©2012 - My Company - All rights reserved

And with:

{snippet copyright|Another Company|2011}

You would get:

©2011 - Another Company - All rights reserved

Note: More and better documentation coming soon...

Other Tutorials, Guides and Videos

• NoNumber Power² - The power of combining NoNumber extensions
  Video Presentation by Peter van Westen (that's me!) (20 August 2011 - Joomla Days South Africa)
  Covers: ReReplacer, Sourcerer, Articles Anywhere, Modules Anywhere, Snippets
  
  

Requirements

Snippets will only work correctly if your setup meets these requirements:

• Up-to-date version of Joomla 2.5 or 3.x (No Joomla 1.5 support!)
• PHP 5.3+ (No PHP 5.2 support!)
• MySQL 5+

Important: I can only provide support for setups that:

• meet the above requirements;
• do not have extension files or Joomla! core files which have been altered in any way.

Languages

Snippets comes packed with the following languages:

Open Source License

Snippets is an Open Source Joomla! extension. It is in compliance with the GNU/GPL license:
GNU General Public License, version 2

Joomla! is also Open Source.