Building rows in a table using setPlaceholder()

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thingstodo Reply #1, 17 years, 8 months ago

I should be able to do this shouldn’t I?

$rows="";
while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
  $modx->setPlaceholder('firstname',$row['firstname']);
  $modx->setPlaceholder('lastname',$row['lastname']); 
  $rows .= $modx->getChunk('myRow');
}


$modx->setPlaceholder('rows',$rows);
return $modx->getChunk('table');

Because it’s not working for me at the moment.

cheers
thingstodo

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Garry Nutting Reply #2, 17 years, 8 months ago

Close but not quite right - you’ll need to create an array of your various placeholders and then use $modx->parseChunk() instead to create your row output.

Example:

$params = array();
$params['param1'] = 'value1';
$params['param2'] = 'value2';
$row = $modx->parseChunk('rowChunk', $params, '[+','+]');

Garry Nutting
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thingstodo Reply #3, 17 years, 8 months ago

Ah i see great, thanks... so let me see if i’ve got this...

when you getChunk in a snippet it retrieves the chunk but it doesn’t replace the placeholders there and then, that happens after the snippet has run.

To replace placeholders of a chunk within the snippet then use parseChunk.

Cheers
Mike

PS first week using modx and am very impressed so far.

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Garry Nutting Reply #4, 17 years, 8 months ago

Quote from: thingstodo at Feb 23, 2009, 01:27 PM

when you getChunk in a snippet it retrieves the chunk but it doesn’t replace the placeholders there and then, that happens after the snippet has run.

To replace placeholders of a chunk within the snippet then use parseChunk.

Yep, absolutely correct

Garry Nutting
Senior Developer
MODX, LLC

Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @garryn
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