Fetch article from custom table and cache results (Evolution)

I want to efficiently display articles from a database table source using evolution.

Endusers can retrieve one at a time trough a single modx document which serves them all. A simple GET argument determines which article id needs to be retrieved, like www.mydomain.com/index.php?id=12&article=111

In that document I could use a snippet ’fetchArticle’ to retrieve the data

1. Is it possible to pass $_GET[’article’] as a snippet parameter?
2. Can i use default cache mechanism to cache multiple articles?

I have a feeling #2 may not be possible, i think snippet caching isn’t designed in a way that allows multiple caches, correct me if I’m wrong

re: #1 Yes, you could pass it as a parameter in a call to "runSnippet". This from one of the API pages :

$params[’param1’] = ’value1’;
$params[’param2’] = ’value2’;

$html = $modx->runSnippet(’mysnippet’, $params);

Matt

Quote from: mconsidine at Feb 08, 2011, 10:07 AM

re: #1 Yes, you could pass it as a parameter in a call to "runSnippet". This from one of the API pages :

That would make it uncached for sure. I probably need to go that route anyway. Maybe I can come up with some caching through something 3rd party or roll my own like mary did at codingpad.

Any advice on this is most welcome.