REVO - getParentIds not working?

hi

I am trying to build a snippet to return the active id on a nav if the document executing has the same parent doc id as the one Im passing in . It is a jagged navigation with varying items so I didnt use wayfinder

anyways, my question is to do with how I could be doing something wrong using getParentid(). I followed http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/modX.getParentIds

my code as follows :



$parent just returns an empty array. I was expecting two ids to be returned, the parent doc and the container above that. The immediate parent is published

help?

Why are you doing this?

Quote from: thiswayup at Nov 09, 2010, 10:48 AM

  $modx = new modX();
  $parent = $modx->getParentIds(38);
  print_r($parent);  

$parent just returns an empty array. I was expecting two ids to be returned, the parent doc and the container above that. The immediate parent is published

help?

You do not need to create the MODx object in your Snippets. It already exists. You have effectively replaced the actual working $modx object initialized by the request with an uninitialized instance that has no idea what context to load a map of Resources for.

Thanks guys. Suddenly alot of things make sense