List of the best variables..

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roulettered56 Reply #1, 18 years ago

Where can I find a list of variables to use on my custom template for my MODx managed site?

Also, am I right in thinking if I add a variable [*EXAMPLE*] to the source code of a template it will show the variable action on each page created with that template?

Is that how they work?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Louis

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BobRay Reply #2, 18 years ago

http://modxcms.com/document-tvs.html

The EXAMPLE TV will only appear on pages where you have [[*EXAMPLE*]] in the document content (assuming that they use the template with that TV). It will also appear if you have [[*EXAMPLE*]] in a chunk or produced by a snippet that’s called on that page.

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roulettered56 Reply #3, 18 years ago

So I have to add a Variable on each page I create in the actual content? sad

I was hoping by putting the Variable tag in the template code all new pages
created using that template would show/do the function of the variable.

Let’s say I want ALL pages created to use H1 tags for the headline, do I have
to wrap each headline myself or is there a way (TV/ Chunk) to make the
template default that function?

I’ve converted to MODx but still I’m updated pages manually and individually lol.

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BobRay Reply #4, 18 years ago

You can use the longtitle of the page as the headline. Then, in your template, just put

<h1>[*longtitle*]</h1>

If you want the same content in many pages, just put the content in a chunk or in the template. Then, you edit it in one place and it changes in all the pages.

Or, you can create your own custom Template Variable (TV) and put content in it.

Or, if the content needs to be calculated, you can create a snippet that generates the content and it will appear on the page where you place the snippet call.

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sottwell Reply #5, 18 years ago

BobRay, you’re spending too much time with Revolution! That should be

<h1>[*longtitle*]</h1>

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kongondo Reply #6, 18 years ago

Original quesion

Where can I find a list of variables to use on my custom template for my MODx managed site?

Also, am I right in thinking if I add a variable [*EXAMPLE*] to the source code of a template it will show the variable action on each page created with that template?

Is that how they work?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Louis

Quote from: BobRay at Oct 06, 2008, 07:21 PM

http://modxcms.com/document-tvs.html

The EXAMPLE TV will only appear on pages where you have [[*EXAMPLE*]] in the document content (assuming that they use the template with that TV). It will also appear if you have [[*EXAMPLE*]] in a chunk or produced by a snippet that’s called on that page.

Is it just me or I think Louis’s first question was misunderstood? Reading this it seems it can be misunderstood that user created TVs’ placeholders (in this case [*EXAMPLE*] cannot be called in the templates source, i.e. within the html but only in the document content. Isn’t the correct position that TVs can either be called directly in the template or directly in the document? I might be the one misunderstanding the original question

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sottwell Reply #7, 18 years ago

If he’s looking for a pre-defined list of available document variables, these are what he wants. They can be any field in the site_content table, although most of them would have little or no use for display on a page.

Template Variables use the same syntax ([*TVName*]), but are user-generated. They are also tied to specific templates, while the above default document variables are not.

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roulettered56 Reply #8, 18 years ago

Thanks for the replies.

Alas I’m a bit lost. My goal was to have a CMS that creates pages on the fly based from a template that has my nav/ sign-up form/ header footer in which I specify a few things like URL and title etc and all that’s left is for me to add content/article to that page.

Let’s imagine I had a template:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>

<title>   title   |   description   </title>

<!-- Javascript - Fix the flash of unstyled content -->
	<script type="text/javascript"></script>

<!-- Stylesheets -->
	<link href="style/reset.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
	<link href="style/default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
	<link href="style/styling.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
	<!-- Print Stylesheet -->
	<link href="style/print.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" />

<!-- Meta Information -->
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="public" />
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="never" />
<meta name="language" content="en-gb" />
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="14 days" />
<meta name="author" content="Mitchell Bryson" />

<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />

</head>
<body>

	<div id="container">

		<div id="header">

			<div id="header-in">

				header

			</div> <!-- end #header-in -->

		</div> <!-- end #header -->

		<div id="content-wrap" class="clear rlcol">

			<div class="column cleft">

				<div class="column-in">

					column one

				</div> <!-- end .column-in -->

			</div> <!-- end .column -->

			<div class="column cright">

				<div class="column-in">

					column two

				</div> <!-- end .column-in -->

			</div> <!-- end .column -->

			<div class="content">

				<div class="content-in">

					content

				</div> <!-- end .content-in -->

			</div> <!-- end .content -->

		</div> <!-- end #content-wrap -->

		<div class="clear"></div>

		<div id="footer">

			<div id="footer-in">

				footer

			</div> <!-- end #footer-in -->

		</div> <!-- end #footer -->

	</div> <!-- end div#container -->
</body>
</html>

By adding <title> [*pagetitle*] </title> to the template above, will each page created with that template have <title> My page title </title> ?

I got that TV from the Document Specific documentation.. is there a global Variable list?

Thanks

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sottwell Reply #9, 18 years ago

Not sure what you mean. There are [*document-variables*] and [(site_variables)] available.

The document variables are taken from the site_content database. [*pagetitle*] and [*longtitle*] are the most commonly used, but it’s possible to use every field in that table. The ones mostly used correspond to the fields you fill out when you create/edit a document.

The site variables are taken from the system_settings table. They correspond to the fields you fill out when you use Tools -> Configuration, although a few also come from the manager/includes/config.inc.php file that is generated on installation. [(site_name)] and [(site_start)] are common ones; site_start returns the document ID you specify in the configuration as the document to use as the "home" or "index" document. Again, you can use any of these, although most of them wouldn’t have much use on a web page.

Maybe this will help: http://www.sottwell.com/how-templates-work.html

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roulettered56 Reply #10, 18 years ago

OK so.. By adding <title> [*pagetitle*] </title> to the template above, will each page created with that template have <title> My page title keywords </title> ?

My main reason for choosing MODx was so I didn’t have to edit each page separately. I thought by changing a chunk or variable on the template would affect each page using that template.

Thanks to everyone taking time out trying to help a noob.

I appreciate it.