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MODx Site and Separate Shopping Site

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    jisaac Reply #1, 13 years, 10 months ago
    Good morning,

    I have a MODx site that recently launched and am running a separate shopping website to avoid the hassle of shopping cart maintenance. To link the site I want to enable a visior on my MODx site to easily locate a product on my shopping site through passing a search string to the shopping website.

    To complete this I would like to create dynamic links based on the page title. The link would format like this: http://shop.mysite.com/search?query=keyword1+keyword2

    What is the easiest way for me (a newbie) to create the link using the page title and replacing spaces with a plus sign? Any input is well appreciated!

    Thanks,

    Jisaac
    • sottwell Reply #2, 13 years, 10 months ago
      <a href="shop.mysite.com/search?query=[[SearchString]]">blah</a>

      SearchString snippet:
      $string = $modx->documentObject['pagetitle'];
$string = str_replace(' ', '+', $string);
return $string;
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        jisaac Reply #3, 13 years, 10 months ago
        Susan,

        You’re pretty much amazing! Wasn’t expecting someone to hand me the answer so thorough/complete. Thank you very much!

        Jisaac
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          jisaac Reply #4, 13 years, 10 months ago
          And then to remove a few other random characters I have in my titles I wrote the follow:

          $string = $modx->documentObject['pagetitle'];
$remove = array(' ', 'and', '&');
$string = str_replace('$remove', '+', $string);
return $string;


          Look okay?