Different content in sidebar depending on page

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stevechilvers Reply #1, 17 years, 2 months ago

Hi, I’m just trying to build my first MODx site and after spending several days finding my way around I’m really impressed with it

The site I’m building is for a rugby club. I’ve set up a number of containers holding the various pages for the 1st team, 2nd team, junior teams etc etc. Now I would like to diplay a different chunk of content in the right sidebar depending on which parent container the page belongs to. I’ll try to explain... For example when a user is viewing the 1st team pages the sidebar would display a chunk containing a simple html table of the 1st team’s match results. And in the 2nd team pages the sidebar would show the 2nd team results table and so on.

I’m hoping it is just a php query I need but I’ve no idea where to even start. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

Many thanks.

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BobRay Reply #2, 17 years, 2 months ago

Even simpler than a query. I would put the various tables in chunks and use a snippet that uses getParent() and getChunk() (although you could also do it with a template variable that selected the chunk). I’m assuming that you’re using Evolution (this would look a little different in Revolution).

Here’s the snippet call:

[!GetSidebar? pageId = `[*id*]` !]

and the snippet (more or less):

<?php

/* get parent id */
$pid = $modx->getParent($pageId);

switch ($pid) {

    case '1':
        return $modx->getChunk('chunk1');
        break;
    case '2':
        return $modx->getChunk('chunk1');
    break;
}

return $modx->getChunk('defaultChunk');

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stevechilvers Reply #3, 17 years, 2 months ago

Wow, thanks for the superfast help!

I’m trying to get it to work but I’m getting an error where the chunks should be showing in the sidebar:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ’(’ in /home/kidwelly/public_html/manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php(770) : eval()’d code on line 4

Here’s my code:

<?php
$pid = $modx->getParent($id);

switch $pid {

   case '1':
    return $modx->getChunk('firsts-league');
    break;
   case '2':
    return $modx->getChunk('chunk1');
    break;
}

return $modx->getChunk('firsts-league');
?>

I have a chunk named ’firsts-league’ which includes a simple html table

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sottwell Reply #4, 17 years, 2 months ago

It means exactly what it says; on line 4, after the switch keyword it expects a (

switch ($pid) {

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php

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BobRay Reply #5, 17 years, 2 months ago

Sorry, I was dashing that off as my dinner got cold.

Fixed in the post above.

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stevechilvers Reply #6, 17 years, 2 months ago

Thanks to you both, I think I’m getting the hang of this now.

The only thing is that only the default chunk is showing regardless of the parent id

<?php
$pid = $modx->getParent($id);

switch ($pid) {

   case '15':
    return $modx->getChunk('firsts-league');
    break;
   case '67':
    return $modx->getChunk('seconds-league');
    break;
}

return $modx->getChunk('firsts-league');
?>

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sottwell Reply #7, 17 years, 2 months ago

Where is that $id variable coming from?

$pid = $modx->getParent($id);

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stevechilvers Reply #8, 17 years, 2 months ago

I’m not sure. Is it anything to do with..

[!GetSidebar? pageId = `[*id*]` !]

Sorry, I feel such a noob!

Steve

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mrhaw Reply #9, 17 years, 2 months ago

Use

$pid = $modx->getParent($pageId);

in the snippet
and

[!GetSidebar?pageId=`[*id*]`!] or [!GetSidebar? &pageId=`[*id*]`!]

as snippet call

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sottwell Reply #10, 17 years, 2 months ago

Get rid of those spaces in the &pageId=`[*id*]` parameter.

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