[SOLVED] DITTO is ignoring me, like so many other things in my life :)

Pardon the title....for some reason my DITTO call is having an undesired effect!

[!Ditto? &startID=`11` &tpl=`newstpl` &extenders=`summary` &total=`5` &showInMenuOnly=`1` !]

I am trying to call ditto to list 5 children of parent 11.
Ditto is doing this, however it is ignoring the parameter &showInMenuOnly=`1`
If I un-check "show in menu" DITTO still pulls through the children?
I can’t see a problem with the snippet call?

"startID" is not a Ditto’s parameter -- you shoul write &parents=`11`

Quote from: Alik at Jun 29, 2009, 10:20 AM

"startID" is not a Ditto’s parameter -- you shoul write &parents=`11`

could have fooled me

if (isset($startID)) {$parents = $startID;}
Appears it in there for legacy support, so its not related to my problem.

I know the feeling... had a husband and three teenaged boys That’s why I took up computers - they always do exactly what you tell them to. The only problem is that I find I’ve often not told it to do what I thought I did

Anyway...

I believe that &display would server you better than &total; &display tells it how many to list, &total tells it how many to fetch from the database. You can use &depth to indicate how deep into your tree structure you want it to go.

This may be useful http://ditto.modxcms.com/files/snippet-ditto-php.html

maybe change total to display


What is your objective? Are you trying to not show the parent but only the children? Or are you trying to exclude a section based on the show in menu option? Or something else all together

I am trying to exclude the children who have no show in menu.
In fact, its working now, don’t know what I changed....but here is the new call that is working:

[!Ditto? &parents=`11` &tpl=`newstpl` &extenders=`summary` &display=`3` &showInMenuOnly=`1` &depth=`1` !]

Thanks for the help again guys, if only it was as simple to switch off other things.....
&projectmanager=`0`

ONLY JOKING