Store 10+ image names with a ressource (for a Portfolio)

Hi there,

I’m setting up a portfolio with Revo and one question is: how to store the showcase images per/with a ressource. Potentially n images of course.

At the moment I see two possibilities

1) setting up 10 image-TVs
pro: easy handling because image TVs are comfortable by default
con: limits to 10 images (even 10 will most likely never be reached)
con: feels unelegant ten times the same stuff

2) putting image names in a comma separated list TV
pro: unlimited image number
con: complicated handling for dummies
con: all images must reside in the same directory to prevent more complications

Anyone further ideas or a better solution? Neither of the above feels ideal.

Thanks for spending your time,

Henning

You can use getResources to call each portfolio item individually
I made a tut about it:

http://designfromwithin.com/using-the-power-of-the-modx-getresources-add-on/

The basic call is (put portfolio items in a rescource with, here it is in ID 10):



Example of a myPortfolioTpl (I added a TV with the name of tv_portfolio_image to add a nice image to each post):


More info here
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/getResources

Thanks for the tutorial but it’s a bit off a side effect, right (maybe I just do not see the clue)? Or how do you store 11 images in that one imageTV?

Ok, I see that you mean.

I’d just make more TV’s then... 10 TV in a list is not that bad I think...
Is more work one time, but after that you can manage all your portfolio items individually..

you can also try imagelistTV or multiItmesGridTV. the simpler one is imagelistTV

Hi Bruno17

Quote from: Bruno17 at Feb 25, 2011, 05:13 AM

you can also try imagelistTV or multiItmesGridTV. the simpler one is imagelistTV

is that first attachment the latest version?
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,52539.msg304271.html#msg304271

GitHub is only for the snippet to read the data, right?

Thanks a lot for sharing your code,

Henning


P.S.: bist Du der Bruno von dem mademyday manchmal spricht? Grüsse!

that’s the latest (from them I’ve uploaded), yes.
and the latest snippet is that from github.

P.S.: bist Du der Bruno von dem mademyday manchmal spricht? Grüsse!

schon möglich.