I’m working on a site whose homepage also needs to display
Quote from: NadirX at Apr 28, 2007, 07:47 AM
higlights" of inner news articles chosen from different sections of the site.
I have 9 sections on my site. Each section has a subfolder called "News" that contains all of those section’s news articles. In my homepage I want to display news from all sections, sorted by date.
I’ll describe my solution to achieve this - maybe it can lead you in the right direction to get what you need.
First, I applied the same template to each of the section’s root page - let’s call this the "Section" template.
For this template, I created a number TV that just stores the News subfolder’s ID for each section - let’s call this "newsFolderID".
Then, I created a small snippet - "getTV" - to generate a list of all the News folders on my site:
<?php
//Get a list of TV values, given a container and document's template
//Container Document, defaults to site root if none given
$container = isset($container) ? $container : 0;
//Section template to search for
$template = isset($template) ? $template : '';
//TV to search for
$TVname = isset($TVname) ? $TVname : '';
//Fetch the Template's ID from the database
$table_site_templates= $modx->getFullTableName('site_templates');
$tplId=$modx->db->getValue($modx->db->select("id", $table_site_templates, "templatename='$template'"));
//Fetch Children documents and get the TV's value on them
$res=$modx->getChildIds($container);
$result = '';
foreach ($res as $key=>$value){
$doc=$modx->getDocument($key);
if($doc['template']==$tplId){
if ($result != '') $result .= ',';
$TVvalue = $modx->getTemplateVar($TVname, '', $doc['id'], 1);
$result .= $TVvalue['value'];
}
}
return $result;
?>
Finally, to list the news articles on the home page, i just called Ditto like this:
[!Ditto?parents=`[[getTV?template=`Section` &TVname=`NewsFolderID`]]` &depth=`1` &display=`all` &limit=`10`!]
I’m aware this is not quite what you’re looking for because you still need to fill in the news folder’s ID on each section’s root page, but at least you don’t have to mark each article with a flag. If you don’t want to sort the articles by date, you can change Ditto’s sort options to use different criteria (menuindex comes to mind...)
Hope this helps!
Regards, JP
MODX Staff
