[SOLVED] Getting Child Count of a Container using Ditto...

So I’m trying to figure out how to simply get the Child Count of documents using Ditto. I’ve looked around the forums and I see that there are some examples using Wayfinder which really are not working so well with my situation, but I’m not seeing anything with Ditto.

Essentially I have a ditto call like so:


Then the coding for the tpl is:


I need the "XXX" to be replaced with the number of children for that particular container. The hierarchy is like so:

- Courses
-- Course Title 1
--- Class 1
--- Class 2
--- Class 3
-- Course Title 2
--- Class 1
--- Class 2
--- Class 3

Anyone had any experience with this? Thanks!

There is a snipet out there that will do this. Here, I think this snipet will do: http://modxcms.com/extras/package/67

Looks like what Im looking for however I need to call it a different way, I am using ditto to pull in all children under a parent using the following call:



But I need this to call the children under the children and display it like Child(5)....

So I have :

-Parent
--children
---children

Is this possible using this snippet ??

Ok forget the last lol,

How o I get it to display just the id’s of the parent ??

Ok sorted, should have played first

I was calling this in a chunk so here is what I used:



So Flinx you would use:



Hope that helps and sorry for hijacking your post

<h2>[+pagetitle+]</h2>
<p>[[ChildrenCount? &parentId=`[+id+]`]] Classes</p>
[+summary+]

Hey paulp,

Thanks so much for providing the answer...I figured it was something simple like an existing snippet...thanks!

http://modxcms.com/extras/package/67

No problem,

But it was dev_cw that gave the answer ( he’s a legend round here you know, shhhhhhh don’t tell him, hell only get big headed ;o) )

Just happy to help out

Quote from: dev_cw at Sep 22, 2009, 05:05 PM

Just happy to help out

And your help is always gratefully received, even if we don’t say it every time

There is another option not mentioned:



Probably causing more MySQL requests than necessary but I use it.