Actual snippet call displayed on the page instead of my snippet's output

Hi,

I am working on a site that has a number of feature boxes that appear in the right column. I want to allow users to select what features should be displayed on each page so I have a snippet called displayFeatures that is called from the template and displays the correct feature boxes for the current page.

Each feature box is set up as a document in the CMS so the users can update the content of them. One of the boxes is quick enquiry form and calls the eForm snippet. On the screen though I can see the snippet call rather than the snippet output. I think this is because I am calling it from another snippet but I’m not sure how I can get around this?

Thanks in advance for your help
Denise

If I understand this correct you have a snippet that is calling a snippet inside it ?

If so in you page or template call the snippet as you normaly would but for the snippet call inside the snippet try [+snippet name+]

i think you should try to call the snippet inside of another snippet cached [[ snippetname ]], and the other one uncached [! snippetname2 !]

Quote from: sharkbait at Nov 25, 2009, 04:08 PM

i think you should try to call the snippet inside of another snippet cached [[ snippetname ]], and the other one uncached [! snippetname2 !]

Reading that back yeh you may be right, I was thinking of TV’s inside chunks ( I think ) lol

Denise, when you say you are calling a snippet from within a snippet, do you mean that the second snippet is in a snippet parameter of the first snippet’s tag or are you using $modx->runsnippet() from within the first snippet to execute the second snippet?

Or are you maybe using some other method that perhaps doesn’t work?

Hi,

thanks everyone for the feedback - will try some of your suggestions tonight but thought I would post some more detail.

I have a document that calls the eform snippet - [!eForm? &formid=`quick_enquiry` &to=`[email protected]` &tpl=`eFormQuickEnquiry` &report=`eFormReportQuickEnquiry` &thankyou=`eFormQuickEnquiry` &subject=`Quick Enquiry`!]

I then have a snippet that is called from a template - [[displayFeatures]] - this is used to control what appears in the right column on each page and the document above is one of the possibilities. Here is the code for the displayFeatures snippet: -

<?php
$pageId = $document[’id’];
$tvrFeatures = $modx->getTemplateVar("1", "*", $pageId, 1);
$featureIdStr = $tvrFeatures[’value’];
$featureIdArray = explode("||", $featureIdStr);
$output = "";
foreach ($featureIdArray as $id) {
$featureDocument = $modx->getDocument($id);
$output .= "<div id=\"ad\">" . $featureDocument[’content’] . "</div>";
}

echo $output;
?>

So the call to the eform snippet is within the $featureDocument[’content’] called above it is not being executed.

Thanks
Denise

I ran into a very similar situation recently, try this amended snippet and see if it helps: