Changing *pagetitle*, *menutitle* programatically via snippet

Hi,

I found on the forums http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,3847.0.html an old post about it (from 2006), but the only answer was that using

should let me change it.

I’m in almost the same situation as the cited user, need to change pagetitle and/or menutitle for dinamically displayed products.

So the question is: at what point I can change these parameters to be visible on the page? Can I put a snippet in a template, before the <html> tag to set these values? Or there is other way?

Any hint will be appreciated!

To do so early enough to make a difference, you’ll need to use a plugin.

http://www.sottwell.com/how-plugins-work.html

First, thank you for the tip Susan. (I’ve been away for a looong while)

by the way I found that in the pagetitle and menutitle input field I can put a snippet and it worked! Assume that this is not an appriopiate solution.

Another question on my mind:

If I want to have dynamic aliases could it be done via plugin as well? (retrieve desired name from DB, and set it $modx->documentObject["alias"]=’my_alias’)

Regards,

B

That would be a bit problematic, I would think; while it could be done how would that affect search engines and people’s bookmarked links? Search engines don’t like it when the same page is reached via different URLs.

I see that didn’t made myself clear.

Instead of:


would like to have:



I’ve already got fURL’s going. so the fURL now is:



The structure is:

[tt]
+ page (id=10)
+ category_generic (id=11)
- product_generic (id=12)

[/tt]

If the "search engines don’t like it when the same page is reached via different URLs" what for the fURL’s are??

Arent’t we reaching the same page [tt]index.php?id=XX[/tt] with different URL’s ?

Ok, I didn’t understand exactly what you were doing.

no problem, my fault

but I really hit the wall with this one. Your help will be more than appreciated.

You can do this with custom .htaccess and a Snippet to generate your proper URLs, OR (this is my preferred method) you can use OnPageNotFound event with a Plugin to parse the REQUEST_URI, set the GET parameters you need to manually, and forward the request to your page using $modx->sendForward($resourceId). MODx is already virtually handling requests for anything that is not a file or folder, so why not take over where the default routing ends to customize it for a particular Resource view you are developing. Please see this post for an example.

Thanks, sounds really complicated, I’m on the snippet ’level of evolution’ at the moment, plugins sounds scaaaary.

See what I can do.