TV in Chunk

Hello,

I’m creating a multilingual website. First lang is German, second (current) is english, more to follow.

I’m using several chunks, e.g. for ditto. In these chunks I sometimes have "fix" phrases like "read more" that should be output in the appropriate language. So I created chunks like "lbl_readmore_de" and "lbl_readmore_en". I store the language via TV in the document as "de" and "en". Now, I want to create the needed chunk name by adding the TV value to the fix beginning:

{{lbl_readmore_[*language*]}}

This should become {{lbl_readmore_de}} or whatever language is the current one.

How can I get this working within a chunk? I already tried it, but it doesn’t work. Even PHx won’t help if I can’t access the TV from within the chunk.

Any ideas are very welcome
Thanks
Martin

You should be able to call the tv within a chunk? No? //...you meant chunk placeholder!

Check out this plugin ---> http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,32807.0.html

What I need within my chunk: generate the name of a different chunk by adding the TV value after the prefix of a chunk name:

in my Ditto Template chunk:


to output the link "read more" ore "mehr" or whatever in the given language.

The Plugin you suggested is quite cool, but the author follows a completely different way than me, and additionally:

EasyLingual ONLY converts [% %] tags in Templates, Page content and page Introtext. NOT in TVs and CHUNKs!

So it won’t work in my case. I actually want to avoid to duplicate my ditto templates for each language.

Martin

How do you get the [*tv to switch*]

Could you not use

[*lbl_readmore*]
And have it switch chunks
{{language_one}}||{{language_two}}

//Bruno rocks!!

You can try this snippet:

Calling a snippet with the [*language*] TV does work!!!

Thank you very much. I wonder why I need this workaround and can’t use my first approach. Probably it’s the processing order of TVs, chunks, snippets and all of that.

Thank you again
Martin