Greetings, All,
I just tried MODx for the first time the other day. After writing bits of code here and there, and test driving a lot of pre-built CMS stuff, this really looks excellent. A very active community, too, and that’s great!
Along with simply saying hi, I thought I’d try to contribute something. If you’re interested, read further. I wasn’t quite sure where to put this, though I suppose it could go under General Support.
I had put together a crude working prototype of my desired application, and decided to use the Datagrid widget. It seems that the Datagrid has received mixed reviews around here, but I often find the need to simply display lines of stuff from tables, so I thought I’d give it a shot. It had been working nicely so far, but I was puzzled that the "Empty Message" field would not display when no rows were returned.
I’m not an expert PHP programmer, but I am strong on debugging, and I found the problem.
Here’s the deal: in tmplvars.format.inc.php at around line 200 we have an errant line.
Here’s what it said before:
$grd->noRecordMsg =$params[’nrmsg’];
Here’s the change:
$grd->noRecordMsg =$params[’egmsg’];
Bing-bing-bada-bing, the message works. I had written a hard-coded solution first, but this is obviously cleaner. I hope this helps, and my best wishes to everyone out there. My apologies if someone has already published this fix, but I haven’t seen it anywhere.
I hope to write some nice apps with this system! I think I heard that OpenGeek wrote a very advanced snippet for this sort of thing, and I’ll have to check it out.
Now if I can just figure out how the sort order works, I’ll be even further.
I have been handling that with ORDER BY clauses for now.
Best, Samba
