Way to insert a HTML link in var

Tom_LabHIdouille

Hi everybody and first of all, sorry for my poor words choice, i’m not english native.

On my MM I Show pictures from a HTML link in Compliments module. In order to make my code prettier, i’m looking for a way to replace the HTML link by a var as I show the same picture in several modules compliments. My issue is that i don’t find the right syntax to make this work…

In other words, i want to replace

{

Module compliment 1 :
Image = https : //www…

Module compliment 2 :
Image = https : //www…

}

by

{
Img = https://

Module compliment 1 :
Img

Module compliment 2 :
Img

}

Thanks a lot if you’re smart enough to help me finding an answer !

sdetweil

@Tom_LabHIdouille there is no way to do it currently with the existing code.

its easy to create variables

    module: "compliments",
    config: {
          some_var:"http:......."
           compliments:{..... }
    }

the problem is using them … thru config…

but a couple lines of code in getDom() could make this functional

            compliements:{
                 anytime: [   "whatever", "var:some_var"]

and in getDom

               // existing code (small change const to let) 
		let complimentText. = this.randomC ompliment();
               // new code 
              if(complimentText.startsWith("var:")
                   complimentText= this.config[complimentText.split(':')[1]]

now you would have to do more if the content is html (img src=“var:…”)

                // loop thru the html content
                let lastindex=0
                while(true){
                       let index = complimentText.indexOf('"var:',lastindex)
                       if (index>=0){
                              lastindex=index
                           // some code to extract the var: string  and it variable
                                //using indexOf and slice (note the previous found the " in front of var:   
                           // get its variable value from config
                          // replace the string, and continue from the previous index (lastindex) 
                         }
                         else break;  // out of while loop
                   }

sdetweil

@Tom_LabHIdouille you won’t be able to share the variable across module instances

thgmirror

@Tom_LabHIdouille I’m not familiar with compliments, but can’t you create a locale html-file at the modules folder with the link to the picture you prefer and add the name of the html at all the compliments-module(s).
The benefit would be only to change the locale file and all the compliments-modules should show your picture.