Hi,
I have the following problem and can’t figure it out with the forums or the API-doc:
I have different template-variables representing types of exercises, let’s say "exercises" and "homework". Assume they are strings (containing exercises and homework). Every article/document has one or some/all of them assigned to it.
I have written an easy parser in PHP, let’s say it replaces all "asdfasdf" in strings with "SOME TEXT".
Now I want that if the template-variable exists it is run through this parser and printed on the screen.
My problem is that I don’t know how to call the parser many times. I did this:
A) Create 2 different snippets "parse_exercises" and "parse_homework" with this code:
// snippet parse_exercises
$modx->setPlaceholder('name', 'exercises');
so here i try to define a variable for using in the parser:
B) Create a snippet called "parser" with content like this:
$type_of_exercise = $modx->getPlaceholder('name');
$value_of_tv = $modx->getTemplateVarOutput(array('$type_of_exercise'));
// if template-variable exists
if(!empty($value_of_tv['$tv_uebungstyp']))
{
// parse it, e.g.
$result = ...
}
$modx->setPlaceholder('parsed_text',$result);
C) try to output the parsed text with a chunk "output" like
<h1>exercise</h2>
<p>[[+parsed_text]]
D) In my template I first call the snippets to parse it and then the chunk to output it:
[[parse_exercises]]
[[parser]]
[[$output]]
[[parse_homework]]
[[parser]]
[[$output]]
But well, nothing goes ...
I feel there must be an easier way, but I just can’t work it out ...
Would appreciate help very much, thanks in advance!
