[Solved]How to Show a "Featured Home" on main page?

I’m creating a Real Estate website and this is one thing I cant figure out.. I have a page at site.com/properties listing about 6 homes that are for sale but what would be the best way to display the featured home on the home page (site.com)? How could I set that up?

I thought about a TV that would determine if a home is featured.. would only work on 1 home but this kind of seems like alot of work.. I could be makin this alot more difficult than it has to be so does anyone have any suggestions?

I usually have a "Promote to Home Page" checkbox TV.
Then use Ditto e.g.

Quote from: bunk58 at Jan 30, 2010, 07:10 AM

I usually have a "Promote to Home Page" checkbox TV.
Then use Ditto e.g.

[!Ditto? &startID=`0` &display=`1` &tpl=`home_property_template` &randomize=`0` &depth=`3` &tagDelimiter=`,` &filter=`promote_home,1` &noResults=`No Properties Found`!]

I kind of understand how this works.. so say I have 5 different homes.. what if 1 home is promoted to the home page and I have try to promote another? I’m just tryin to think of all the possibilities to make it as easy as possible 4 the client.. i would try it out but im not home right now.. but it looks like what im lokoin for

&display=`1`

Will limit the output to one, even if your client has more than one selected.

Quote from: bunk58 at Jan 31, 2010, 06:26 AM

&display=`1`

Will limit the output to one, even if your client has more than one selected.

It works, but say if I have Home1 currently featured no the Homepage and I decide to promote Home3 to the homepage.. Home1 will still be on "Yes" for the radio selections.. is there a way to get it reset back to "No" so if I want to feature Home1 on the homepage I dont have to click "No" and then click "Yes"?

I suppose a new plug-in could be triggered on doc form save to set all the other promote home TV values to 0

If each home is set as in individual document, you should be able to apply a TV to the home page that uses an @DOCUMENT or even an @SELECT binding. Each time you choose a new featured home it would replace the previous one with no worries about having more than one because of TV’s in the individual home documents.

im not good with php so not sure how to do the other solution yet but what is a @DOCUMENT/@SELECT binding? im not sure if its an easier solution, but id like to try anythin out

@SELECT requires a MySQL statement to pull a selection from the database. @DOCUMENT is much simpler, it’s just a reference to a document at the site (by document ID). With @DOCUMENT, the content field of the specified document replaces the TV tag.

Here’s a cool way to use @DOCUMENT. Let’s say the IDs of the featured houses are 1, 2,and 3. The Input Option values of the TV on the home page could look like this:



Format the TV as a drop-down list or as radio options. The user will see this:

323 Maple
213 Pine
923 Elm

but the TV tag will be replaced by the @DOCUMENT part which will be replaced by the content of document containing the property the user selects.

If you really want to get fancy, you could actually use an @EVAL statement with runSnippet() and create a snippet that would generate the Input Option Values drop-down list from all the houses in a particular container (or tagged in some way -- e.g. with another TV called "Featured"). Of course, you could also rotate the featured houses at random. Is MODx cool or what?

you can use Quill for this

http://modxcms.com/extras/package/?package=355

1. install the snippet
2. create a TV e.g. "feature", "Dropdown List Menu", Input Option Values: @EVAL return $modx->runSnippet(’Quill’, array("parent"=>"11")); with 11 being the id of my parent folder to retrieve documents from
3. assign it to your template
4. on your startpage you can call Ditto like this: [[Ditto? &documents=`[*feature*]` &extenders=`summary` ... etc ]]

5. your TV "feature" will list all available documents to choose from

this is quite handy

solves this problem:

what if 1 home is promoted to the home page and I have try to promote another? I’m just tryin to think of all the possibilities to make it as easy as possible 4 the client

*edit: ddTree Snippet could work as well:
http://modxcms.com/extras/package/90
http://www.modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=19614