How to output content from any page into the sidebar?

377 Posts

worchyld Reply #1, 17 years, 1 month ago

I have a chunk called "chunk_sidebar", in which I want to put the content from the Abous Us page (2) (stripped of its HTML content) or its IntroText content in the sidebar.

I am not sure how to do this.

I tried using Ditto, but it looks at children, and not the actual article itself.

How do I output the content from any page into sidebar, or other chunks?

ie:

[[getIntroText? &id=`2`]]

701 Posts

bennyb Reply #2, 17 years, 1 month ago

Try the GetField Snippet

24,544 Posts

BobRay Reply #3, 17 years, 1 month ago

A template variable with the @DOCUMENT binding will get just the content field.

If you need to strip the HTML tags in the content (not sure why you’d want to), I think you can use the TV as a parameter in a snippet call and just use strip_tags() in the snippet.

Did I help you? Buy me a beer
Get my Book: MODX:The Official Guide
MODX info for everyone: http://bobsguides.com/modx.html
My MODX Extras
Bob's Guides is now hosted at A2 MODX Hosting

377 Posts

worchyld Reply #4, 17 years, 1 month ago

Hi there.

Thanks for the solutions provided. I made my own snippet to resolve the problem, and it worked fine.

<?php
/**
* getDocument
*/

if (!isset($field)):
	$field = 'introtext';
endif;

$doc = $modx->getDocument( $id, '*', 1);

foreach($doc as $doc_field=>$doc_value):
	if ($doc_field == $field):
		//(print $doc_field .' --> '. $doc_value . '<br />';)
		return ($doc_value);
	endif;
endforeach;
?>