Need to Create a Resource Using a Snippet

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joshlasdin Reply #1, 13 years, 11 months ago

I’ve been working on some custom scripting to handle a dynamic news section on a clients site. Their site is using modX Evo 1.0.3. About half of the scripting is external from modx iteself, but here’s a rundown of what I have and what I need to get done:

Completed

A cron script scrapes articles from various external sources.
An email is sent to the user displaying article information with a link after each to "publish document"
Once link is clicked, user is directed to a staging page where article information is populated into various form fields (publish date, title, description, etc).

Here’s where I need some help. On form submit, I’d like it to run a snippet, where a document is created in the news section of the page tree (I already have this set up in the page tree that manually-created articles are distributed to smaller sections using Ditto). I looked through the API and couldn’t find anything like what I was looking for (I was thinking of like a modx->createResource haha). Is something like this possible? Would it be easier to just directly inject information into the DB? Any help would be greatly appreciated. The site is http://www.keystonebiofuels.com if that helps give a better idea of how the articles are being displayed. Hopefully this all makes sense, if more information is needed please just ask!

Thanks!

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BobRay Reply #2, 13 years, 11 months ago

Take a look at the NewsPublisher snippet: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,3220.0.html

The blog code from kp52 also creates documents: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,38685.0.html

BTW, since you are pretty much rolling your own stuff here, you might consider switching to MODx Revolution where creating resources and assigning them to containers is easier:

<?php
$containerID='12';

$object = $modx->newObject('modDocument');
$object->set('name', 'MyDocument');
$object->set('published', '0');
$object->setContent('This will be the content of the new doc.');
$object->set('description', 'I created this doc in a snippet');
$object->set('parent', $containerID);
$object->save();

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kp52 Reply #3, 13 years, 11 months ago

PubKitBlog and PubKit actually use ur001’s DocManager (Document class) to create new resources. It sounds a good match for your requirement. Just watch out for the short PHP tag at the start, which can cause problems if you don’t replace it.

KP

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joshlasdin Reply #4, 13 years, 11 months ago

Thanks guys,

I actually found pubKit yesterday and tried it out, but after taking a look at pubKitBlog I think that will be a better fit, don’t need all the features of pubKit. I’ll let you know how I do, Thanks for the help!