Module that creates chunks

I am looking to create a module that will allow a user to easily create a chunk without going into resources, etc.

This should be fairly easy/straight forward but I can’t find any API documentation for the Evo API.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

How would going into a Module be faster than going through the Elements menu? Just curious, maybe I am missing part of your idea...

Regardless, there really is no API for creating new Chunks in Evolution. This is why Revolution was created, to provide consistent OO API’s for dealing with all of the data, instead of having to write pure SQL insert, update, and select statements.

OK, that makes sense.

My thought was, this particular user is a novice and is already familiar with the Modules tab. If I was able to create a module that would only allow them to create chunks (without seeing all of the others that are currently there) it would remove a lot of confusion for them.

I will fool around with roles/permissions and see if I can come up with something else.

Thanks
Brian

A workaround might be to use documents. Hide all the fields but the title and content field using ManagerManager and then use getField to display the content document variable.

Quote from: smashingred at Oct 14, 2009, 09:26 AM

A workaround might be to use documents. Hide all the fields but the title and content field using ManagerManager and then use getField to display the content document variable.

In other situations this would work well, but I don’t think it is a fit for this one.

Let me tell you the exact problem.

The user does a lot of copy/paste from work which in turn embeds many styles and messes up displaying the pages.

I created a plug in that will purify the html code (using htmlpurifier)

The problem with this is, the user uses paypal (embeds many options in a page) and html purify doesn’t allow all of the form code to go though (even modifying the rules it still blocks elements) and I have been fooling around with filters for htmlpurifier but still have not had any success.

So I have been creating chunks so that he just has to embed the chunk name {{}} in the content and the paypal button will display.

I will fool around with roles and also continue to focus on creating a custom filter for htmlpurifier.

Thanks
Brian

1. http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,37321.msg225741.html#msg225741
2. Create links for adding chunks <a href="index.php? -> http://svn.modxcms.com/svn/tattoo/tattoo/releases/1.0.0/manager/includes/actionlist.inc.php
3. Se ManagerManager add-on

Quote from: mrhaw at Oct 14, 2009, 09:54 AM

1. http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,37321.msg225741.html#msg225741
2. Create links for adding chunks <a href="index.php? -> http://svn.modxcms.com/svn/tattoo/tattoo/releases/1.0.0/manager/includes/actionlist.inc.php
3. Se ManagerManager add-on

Thank you, I think this will work.

Wow... I’d rather spend 1 hour educating the user how to use the existing interface than spend 10 hours writing code to copy existing functionality. Actually, I’d rather spend an hour educating someone than spending 10 minutes coding... that’s simply because ignorance is hungry. Ignorant users will always want more and more and I’d go crazy if I became the coding servant to cater to their whims... the first part of so many solutions is education. So many problems in site dev are non-technical.

Normally I use this method for my own purpose. To link to CSS files, snippet folders and
config files when developing bigger projects.