Ditto 2.0 Alpha 1

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Ditto 2.0! It still has a few things left (for details see notes.txt) but is just about feature complete. It is a complete rewrite of Ditto and should be much faster as it only retrieves the needed fields. I hope to release this Sunday to the public complete with a Ditto 2.0 orientation screencast.

The major changes:

The "tv" prefix is no longer required! Remember that TVs will now override their database counterparts like in MODx itself, except when sorting. Furthermore, tv prefixes will still continue to function in templates only. They will need to removed in the Ditto call however.

User created custom placeholders & custom filters are now possible without editing the Ditto core

[+tags+] is now [+tagLinks+] to avoid naming conflicts

QE # prefixed links now work with MODx 0.9.5

Certain parameters have been renamed or altered (complete list coming soon)

Ditto ID is now after the var in the form varname_dittoID

Please test this release extensively!

Thanks,
Mark

Note: Alot of the placeholders that can now be done with PHx are now gone such as the date parameter.

The screencast will walk you (the user) in upgrading to 2.0.

Mark,
Looks great, I will definatly test this out later today.

Mark,
I think I may have found a bug. With pagination enabled, you can page through the psots, but when you get to the last page it throws an error:



This was just some basic testing with the default content.

Mark,
Got another one for you. If no results are returned and pagination is enabled, the pagination information still displays. Says: Showing 1 - 1 of 1 Articles
There is also a 1 below where the navigation usually is.

If there are fewer articles than set with the summarize parameter, the paging navigation displays a 1 also.

Hi,

thanks mark for this new release.

I’ve installed it locally (PHP 4.3.1 / MYSQL 5)
At first run Some error occurs because of debug class (cannot instantiante message)
I had to sort differently some lines of the snippet to be sure to load the debug.class


:-)

Mark,

I’m testing with about ~2400 documents in Db

Ditto 2.0 is twice faster than ditto 1 to render my documents list
That’s really impressive.

:-)

Woosh !

Pretty good news indeed, as I said before many of my websites heavily rely on Ditto...
Can’t wait to try this baby

for those who like figures

Same call
Ditto 1.1
MySQL: 3.2536 s, 4426 request(s), PHP: 1.4238 s, total: 4.6773 s

Ditto 2.0
MySQL: 1.1410 s, 1353 request(s), PHP: 1.3468 s, total: 2.4878 s,

Kyle, I am unable to duplicate the errors you are experiencing. As for "If no results are returned and pagination is enabled, the pagination information still displays. Says: Showing 1 - 1 of 1 Articles" this has always been the case. However, the latter part should say 0’s where there are 1s. I will look into that.

@heliotrope: What changes did you need to make and what was the exact error message? Great to hear of the performance increases!

Thanks!