Looping through pages

Hi all! Apologies if this is a bit of a newbie question, I’ve done a search and couldn’t see anything that helped me

I am using modx and foxycart for a client who needs a simple order form, with no transactions at this stage. I gather that foxycart isn’t a CMS so all the products etc need to live in modx which is great - it’s all in one place.

I want the products listed all on one form/page, so users can just enter 1 of these 4 of those etc all on one page. My strategy for doing this is...

* Create order page resource
* Create containers for each of the product categories (set not to display on front end)
* Add a resource to the containers for each product (set not to display on front end)

And I’ve made variables for each price etc.

So my question is how do I get the order page to loop through the children? I’m guessing a snippet of some description, but I’ve been fluffing around with that for a few hours and haven’t been able to get it working - php knowledge = minimal!!

Again sorry if this is a really obvious one, and TIA for help!!

Addle

OK, this is what I have tried tonight.

So far I have been able to get documentobjects like the title displaying OK, but not my template variables. ARGH!

Any ideas any php modx gurus?

TIA

addle

<?php
$docid = isset($docid) ? $docid : "";
if(empty($docid)) return "";
$childdoc = $modx->getDocumentChildren($docid);
foreach($childdoc as $cd){
//$output = $output.$cd[’pagetitle’]."
";
$grandchild=$modx->getDocumentChildren($cd[’id’]);
$tvarlist = $modx->getDocumentChildrenTVars($cd[’id’]);
foreach($tvarlist as $tvl){
$output = $output.print_r($tvl)."
";
}
//foreach($grandchild as $gc){
//$output = $output.$gc[’pagetitle’]."
";
//$output = print_r($tvarlist);
//}
}
return $modx->parseDocumentSource($output);
?>

Anyone? I’m out of ideas......!

Thanks!

Addle

Ditto would almost certainly do what you want by way of displaying data from sets of children, though I’m not sure about the interactive side of things in your order form.
http://ditto.modxcms.com/
http://www.pogwatch.com/ditto.html

Treasure Chest (http://modxcms.com/extras/package/470) may also suit, or give you some ideas at least.

KP

Hi,

Thanks for the recommendation - this might be just me, but I can’t see where to download Ditto from or how to install it etc - the documentation seems pretty light on for newbies.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
addle

Try here in the repository.

Which version of MODx are you using? Ditto is part of the distribution package of MODx Evolution 1.0, so you only need to put the snippet call in to use it, unless you chose not to install the standard snippets in the first place.

The link above will offer an alpha version of Ditto for Revolution (MODx 2), though you can burrow your way back via Previous Releases to an Evolution version if you need to download it.

KP

Thanks kp52
I’ve corrected the link in my previous post to Evo version 2.1

Thanks

I’ll take a look at Ditto before coming back for more help LOL

OK, I think I’ve spent enough of my time trying to figure this out.... are there any volunteers out there that are interested in lending a hand? Or is there a find a developer thread I should be using?

It would be paid work obviously.

TIA

addle