Add new document to (new) resource group via api

47 Posts

prioritypie Reply #1, 13 years, 1 month ago

Hi,
In a Custom Manager Page I am creating a new resource and want to a) create a new resource group and b) add the new resource to that resource group.
The code I am using for creating the resource itself is similar to the following:

$page = $this->modx->newObject('modDocument');

$pagedata = array( PAGEDATA HERE );

$page->fromArray($pagedata);

$page->save();

$newpageid = $page->get('id');

Can anyone give me any pointers for the methods to use: I guess I’m looking for something like "newObject(’modResourceGroup’)", then setResourceGroup($newpageid,$newgroupid) (Although obviously that would be a bit too easy!).

Thanks for any help in advance.

47 Posts

prioritypie Reply #2, 13 years, 1 month ago

OK, so this seems to work for creating a new group:

$group = $this->modx->newObject('modResourceGroup');
//Not sure about hardcoding the private_memgroup and _webgroup...
$groupdata = array('name'=>'MYNAME,'private_memgroup'=>0,'private_webgroup'=>0);
$group->fromArray($groupdata);
$group->save();
$newgroupid = $group->get('id');

But the question remains about how to assign a resource to it using the api.

Nothing like a discussion with yourself...

47 Posts

prioritypie Reply #3, 13 years, 1 month ago

I guess writing things in a forum is the magic solution to finding what you’ve been looking for over the last frustrating coding hours...

This seems to work, unless anyone can suggest a reason why it’s bad:

$assign = $modx->newObject('modResourceGroupResource');
$data = array('document_group'=>MYGROUPID,'document'=>MYDOCID);
$assign->fromArray($data);
$assign->save();

4,149 Posts

splittingred Reply #4, 13 years, 1 month ago

$resource->joinGroup('ResourceGroupName');
/* or */
$resource->joinGroup(123); /* id of resource group */

shaun mccormick | bigcommerce mgr of software engineering, former modx co-architect | github | splittingred.com

534 Posts

exside Reply #5, 9 years, 11 months ago

With this PR https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/pull/11364 error log spam could be prevented like this (as the join/leaveGroup() methods throw an error each time a resource is already in a group or not in a group...)

if (!$resource->isMember('ResourceGroupName')) {
    $resource->joinGroup('ResourceGroupName');
}