Creating a feature slider as in Kartonista's tutorial...

Surprised not to see the tutorial from Kartonista about converting an www.os-templates.com template to revo, mentioned any place in the forums.
I’m wondering about the best way to name images for the slider, the tutorial just uses ID.
I wouldn’t want to name the image just with a simple ID number that MODx would assign to it, but rather something more descriptive?

Copied the entire coded bit below from the page here:
http://www.kartonista.com/tech/port-os-template-to-modx-revo.html
thanks for any suggestions.

From the tut:
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Create a new chunk labeled “features” and will contain the following code.



This means that if you have a new article/post, you just have to create a corresponding JPG picture measuring 150×130, name it with the id number of the article, and upload it to the “assets/images/features/” directory.
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Any suggestions for other image handling resources would be great too.

I’d use an image TV instead. That way you can easily see which image is associated with a resource, have more control over the filenames, and update the image without needing access to the file manager or ftp.

Create a ’image’ type TV - let’s call it imageTV.

Update the getResources call to include TVs:


And change your chunk to something like:

Thanks for the advice, after posting the question, I snooped through the Revo doc’s and sort of decided maybe a TV was what I needed to delve into. As a newbie still, I decided it was best to sit and wait for a code hint, and keep my mouth shut so as not to clutter up the help thread, lol.

Thanks alot.

Are there any good image handling tutorials someplace, I was also wondering if I’ll want to use phpthumb, but that will be a later improvement to a template, got to go agile or nothing’s going to get started.

Mary’s tutorial on TV’s will no doubt be a big help:
http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2011/02/07/modx-revolution-for-complete-beginners-part-6-working-with-template-variables/