Help using ditto to loop sibling resources but using different templates

Hi Modxers,

Im a noob so please bear with me.

I basically have a conference with day 1 / 2 / 3 in the site tree under these there are either keynotes / sessions / breaks all of which have different templates.

I have tried a number of ditto modifications but all have failed.

For each day I want to loop through and for each sibling resource if it is a session return that chunk containing those tv’s, if its a keynote return that chunk and those tv’s and the same for a break.

Is this possible with ditto if so any suggestions on using it to swap templates in the same loop or any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Steve

You could use Ditto’s built-in phx functionality to select which part of the Ditto tpl to use, depending on a TV perhaps. Take a look a the default Jot "comment" display tpl to see a complex example of using phx to control the output.

Thanks for the pointer but both these look pretty complicated..

I was hoping to do something like have...

On the actual page have a dito call like:

[[Ditto? &parents=`340` &tpl=`conference_item`]]

Then have an empty template ’conference_item’

Then a chunk that references a snippet


like - [[conf-item-switcher]]

Then a snippet like

<?php

//get template name
$templateName = $modx->db->getValue(’SELECT templatename FROM ’.$modx->getFullTableName(’site_templates’).’ WHERE id=’.$modx->documentObject[’template’]);

$output =’’;

//loop through if / else to match the template name and then return a template accordingly.
if($templateName == ’conference-program-break’){

$output .=’Template is break [*break-tv*]
’;

}elseif($templateName == ’conference-program-keynote’){

$output .=’Template is keynote [*keynote-tv*]
’;

}else{

$output .=’Template is default [*default-tv*]’;
}

return $output;
?>

But this doesnt seem to work.

Any other suggestions welcome!!

Thanks
Steve