How Not to Show Menu on Homepage

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elocinrhom Reply #1, 17 years, 10 months ago

First off, I am new to MODx and Wayfinder. I created a website with two page templates, homepage and subpage. They have the same basic design, except there is no side menu on the homepage. Got everything looking fine, but my boss said that I should try to do it in one template. I don’t know how. I don’t know if there’s a way to do it in the template or the Wayfinder code or what. I have attached JPGs of the layout to make it a little easier to show you what I’m talking about. I’m content to leave it as it is now, but I also want to keep the boss happy. Please help!

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BobRay Reply #2, 17 years, 10 months ago

There may be an easier way, but you could certainly do it with a snippet placed where the menu goes.

[!MenuSnippet!]

You’d put the Wayfinder menu in a chunk and, in your MenuSnippet snippet, just check to see if it’s the home page (looking at the document ID).

If yes:

return "";

if no:

return(getChunk("name_of_the_wayfinder_chunk"));

I think you could also do it with a TV set to the chunk mentioned above for every page but the home page and left empty there.

There might also be a way to do it with PHX.

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kongondo Reply #3, 17 years, 10 months ago

I read somewhere how this can be achieved using PHx, some chunks, css-display none etc....problem is...can’t seem to find it now! Anyway, here’s some links to similar(?) logic applied using PHx..

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,30180.msg183189.html#msg183189
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,29031.msg176269.html#msg176269
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,23132.0.html

And a link to the PHx wiki
http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/PHx

cheers/k

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bob1000 Reply #4, 17 years, 10 months ago

[+phx:if=`[*id*]`:is=`1`:then=``:else=`{{menuChunk}}`+]

Where `1` is the ID of your home page and {{menuChunk}} contains your Wayfinder call.

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kongondo Reply #5, 17 years, 10 months ago

I knew I had seen bob1000 write code like that! laugh

. I’ll keep this for my reference...

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sinbad Reply #6, 17 years, 10 months ago

phx is a life saver for the coder wannabe

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elocinrhom Reply #7, 17 years, 10 months ago

I tried your if statement, bob1000, but it didn’t display right. I made the changes and then previewed the homepage (which shouldn’t have a menu). Everything is on the page correctly, but where my menu is not supposed to display, it says:

[+phx:if=`5`:is=`5`:then=``:else=`

* SideMenu1
* SideMenu2
* SideMenu3
`+]

I have pasted my html code to see if I did something wrong. My homepage’s id is 5 and I created a chunk called "sidemenu" that says: [!Wayfinder? &startId=`0` &level=`1`!]. Please help! It seems like it should work, but it obviously doesn’t.

<body>
<div id="body">

<div id="header">
<div id="topmenu">[!Wayfinder? &startId=`0` &level=`1`!] </div>
</div>

<div id="address">{{address}}</div>

<div id="curve">
<div id="centerimage"><img src="[*bannerimage*]" /></div><div id="curvemask"></div>
<div id="mainmenu">[!Wayfinder? &startId=`0` &level=`1`!] </div>
<br />

<div id="contentarea">
<!-- if statement to display sidemenu chunk if not the homepage: [!Wayfinder? &startId=`0` &level=`1`!]  -->
<div id="sidemenu"> [+phx:if=`[*id*]`:is=`5`:then=``:else=`{{sidemenu}}`+] </div>
<div id="content"> <h2 class="style1">[*longtitle*]</h3>
<p>[*content*]</p></div>
</div>

</div>

</div>

</body>

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sinbad Reply #8, 17 years, 10 months ago

did u install phx yet?

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elocinrhom Reply #9, 17 years, 10 months ago

Actually, I hadn’t. I assumed that it came already installed. My boss usually sets it up and I just go in there and edit the pages. I figured since I already had Wayfinder that PHx would be in there too. Anyway, I followed the directions on http://modxcms.com/PHx-1006.html and I get the following error any time I try to preview the pages:

« MODx Parse Error »
MODx encountered the following error while attempting to parse the requested resource:
« PHP Parse Error »

PHP error debug
Error: include_once(assets/plugins/phx/phx.parser.class.inc.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory
Error type/ Nr.: Warning - 2
File: /home/woodmart/public_html/manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php(745) : eval()’d code
Line: 10

Parser timing
MySQL: 0.0008 s (3 Requests)
PHP: 0.0141 s
Total: 0.0150 s

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sinbad Reply #10, 17 years, 10 months ago

modx can’t find the phx file. did u upload the files? make sure you have it on the server.
IIRC the zip ship with the folder name in caps, ie Phx and you wanna rename it to phx in lower case.