[Tips] Enchancement on Document Template Select Box

Hi guys, I just did this simple modification of the core code to have the document manager to display the parent template if they have one. So all the child document under certain folder will have the default selected template to the parent folder’s template.

Hope it might be usefull to some of you, and finally get added to the core distribution file.

Somebody already built a better plugin to do this.
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,1092.0.html

Look at line 543 on "manager/actions/dynamic/mutate_content.dynamic.action.php". Replace the whole code inside <?PHP ?> tag with this code.

			<?php
			if(isset($_REQUEST['pid'])) $parentTemplate = $modx->getPageInfo($_REQUEST['pid'], 1, 'template');
			while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs)) {
				if(isset($_REQUEST['newtemplate'])){
					$selectedtext = $row['id']==$_REQUEST['newtemplate'] ? "selected='selected'" : "" ;
				}
				else if(isset($content['template'])) {
					$selectedtext = $row['id']==$content['template'] ? "selected='selected'" : "" ;
				}
				else if(isset($parentTemplate) && $parentTemplate) {
					$selectedtext = $row['id']==$parentTemplate['template'] ? "selected='selected'" : "" ;
				}
				else {
					$selectedtext = $row['id']==$default_template ? "selected='selected'" : "" ;	
				}
			?>

Hope it might be usefull to some of you.

Note: I changed the code, before I use the wrong API getParent instead of getPageInfo

Regards,

I believe Mark has a plugin that does exactly this, btw, so no core hack is needed... it’d be interesting to see his version of that here. Good stuff regardless.

Its nice to have modules made left and right but when do we get an repository to find them?
and could some stander most used modules/plugins/snippets be shipped with the next release?

i use the png plugin on every site I make now i need to intall it by hand all the time and the .... sorry drifting of here its off topic.

Dimmy

FYI: I did not write the code--- I just told Ryan about it!

Hey, would like to know the plugin to do that too. I tried it, but I couldn’t figure out a way to access outside bariable from plugin. If there is a code for example, than I might start to get rid of this bad habit in hacking the code, everytime I need to accomplish something.

Thanks

I found it
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,1092.0.html

Thanks netnoise, now that explains the global variables thing. Man, I never get use to those global variable thing in PHP. It’s SO CONFUSING, lol.

Anyway, forget about the hack!

FYI, I committed the plugin to add this to the next revision.