Render xml and write values into it

Kirby 3 Questions 🤔
1

Im working on a site that uses krpano to embed enormous images into it. This plugin is configured via an xml file, but ideally i need to configure that xml file via the panel. Is the best approach a route or a virtual page? How would get the values i need from the content that sits along side it?

The structure looks like this…

2_mypage
  flatpano_setup.xml
  macro.txt
  my_image.jpg
  my_image.jpg.txt
  pano.xml
  tiles

I need to set values in flatpano_setup.xml that are stored content file macro.txt which is controlled by the panel, so flatpano_setup.xml needs to be dynamic somehow.

Whats the best way to do it?

2

I’ve kind of solved it by storing the values in the session and picking them back up in a virtual page, but it feels a little hacky… is there maybe a better way?

  // Pano Config
  [
    'pattern' => '/macros/(:any)/flatpano_setup.xml',
    'action'  => function () {
      return Page::factory([
          'slug' => 'flatpano_setup',
          'template' => 'flatpano_setup',
          'model' => 'flatpano_setup',
          'content' => [
              'maxzoom' => kirby()->session()->get('macro.maxzoom', '0.5'),
          ]
      ]);
    }
  ]
3

Hm, if your route should return the xml file, why do you set it up as a virtual page? Guess I’m missing something here…

4

Because the xml file does not physically exist but theres a line in it:

<view fovtype="HFOV" fov="1.0" fovmax="1.0" maxpixelzoom="1.0" limitview="lookat" />

I need to set the zoom from the other page, so ive passed it over through the session.

When i visit /macros/somepage it sets the session from that page

5

Exactly, if the xml file does not physically exist but is returned from the route, your route can render it with the data from the page. I don’t get the session part.

6

Well theres about 20 pages, each with one of these zoomy things on. Kirby sees them as two seperate things, so i couldnt see a way to share value besides the session. And the xml is about 50 lines long, so i didn’t want to throw all that in a route.