Thanks tkfm, that did the trick!
Thanks Susan aswell, it gave me a place to start from. Seeing as this is my first ’experience’ with PHP, could you, or somebody else, guide me a bit in customizing the snippet? From looking at it... instead of modifying the snippet to add the form (see code quoted below) wouldn’t a
&formtpl=`chunkname` be sufficient to add the form?
I’m also guessing getting the snippet to post it will be the hardest part for a newby like me... This is what I can find in the snippet to posting the new article
// post news content
$flds = array(
'pagetitle' => $title,
'longtitle' => $longtitle,
'description' => $description,
'introtext' => $introtext,
'alias' => $alias,
'parent' => $folder,
'createdon' => $createdon,
'createdby' => ($userid>0 ? $userid * -1:0),
'editedon' => '0',
'editedby' => '0',
'published' => $published,
'pub_date' => $pub_date,
'unpub_date' => $unpub_date,
'deleted' => '0',
'hidemenu' => $hidemenu,
'menuindex' => $mnuidx,
'template' => $template,
'content' => mysql_escape_string($header.$content.$footer)
);
$redirectid = $modx->db->insert($flds,$modx->getFullTableName('site_content'));
Those fieldnames remind me of the info shown in the manager for each document, so I’m guessing that’s what it saving it to. Now the content is being posted.. well.. where exactly?
It may be a lot of questions, but if you could point me into the right direction, or perhaps link me to a tutorial that would be an awesome help!
As for the line-breaks, one of my friends also came up with the
or <p> suggestion, that seems to work but I’ll probably add a RTE instead as that’s easier to use for some people. According to the snippet’s help file/documentation and
this tutorial adding
&rtcontent to the call should work. But does it have to point at a template variable like the tutorial shows how to do it? Or could I put the code for a RTE in a chunk and add that in the call? (Is that even possible?
)
Thanks for the support so far!
Mark
Snippet part for the template
// get form template
if(isset($formtpl)) $formTpl = $modx->getChunk($formtpl);
if(empty($formTpl)) $formTpl = '
<form name="NewsPublisher" method="post">
<input name="NewsPublisherForm" type="hidden" value="on" />
Page title:<br /><input name="pagetitle" type="text" size="40" value="[+pagetitle+]" /><br />
Long title:<br /><input name="longtitle" type="text" size="40" value="[+longtitle+]" /><br />
Description:<br /><input name="description" type="text" size="40" value="[+description+]" /><br />
Published date:<br /><input name="pub_date" type="text" value="[+pub_date+]" size="40" readonly="readonly" />
<a onClick="nwpub_cal1.popup();" onMouseover="window.status=\'Select date\'; return true;" onMouseout="window.status=\'\'; return true;" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand"><img align="absmiddle" src="manager/media/images/icons/cal.gif" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Select date" /></a>
<a onClick="document.NewsPublisher.pub_date.value=\'\'; return true;" onMouseover="window.status=\'Remove date\'; return true;" onMouseout="window.status=\'\'; return true;" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand"><img align="absmiddle" src="manager/media/images/icons/cal_nodate.gif" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Remove date"></a><br />
Unpublished date:<br /><input name="unpub_date" type="text" value="[+unpub_date+]" size="40" readonly="readonly" />
<a onClick="nwpub_cal2.popup();" onMouseover="window.status=\'Select date\'; return true;" onMouseout="window.status=\'\'; return true;" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand"><img align="absmiddle" src="manager/media/images/icons/cal.gif" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Select date" /></a>
<a onClick="document.NewsPublisher.unpub_date.value=\'\'; return true;" onMouseover="window.status=\'Remove date\'; return true;" onMouseout="window.status=\'\'; return true;" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand"><img align="absmiddle" src="manager/media/images/icons/cal_nodate.gif" width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Remove date"></a><br />
Summary:<br /><textarea name="introtext" cols="50" rows="5">[+introtext+]</textarea><br />
Content:<br /><textarea name="content" cols="50" rows="8">[+content+]</textarea><br />
<input name="send" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<script language="JavaScript" src="manager/media/script/datefunctions.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var elm_txt = {}; // dummy
var pub = document.forms["NewsPublisher"].elements["pub_date"];
var nwpub_cal1 = new calendar1(pub,elm_txt);
nwpub_cal1.path="[(base_url)]manager/media/";
nwpub_cal1.year_scroll = true;
nwpub_cal1.time_comp = true;
var unpub = document.forms["NewsPublisher"].elements["unpub_date"];
var nwpub_cal2 = new calendar1(unpub,elm_txt);
nwpub_cal2.path="[(base_url)]manager/media/";
nwpub_cal2.year_scroll = true;
nwpub_cal2.time_comp = true;
</script>';
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