about tvExplorer

Great news I can’t wait to see that !

Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful, I have my hands full right now with projects...

Thx for you support david.

You ’re one of the biggest fan of this module

tveditor offers other nice features.

Based on tve class, I’ve also written a snippet which aim is to render the name of the tv when you’re using name==value syntax

:-)

I’m eagerly awaiting this release too! Good job!

Thx doze for your interest in this module

My main concern about a public release is that tve requires to install a lot of stuff.

I have written an installer to deal with the required chunks (makeform class)
and the module params.

But there is also a
- 1 phx:modifier ( I could change the installer to deal with this part)
- 1 line to change in ditto class in buildUrl function
- 2 new filters in ditto filter.class.php file
and 1 extender

:-)

Can this tvExplorer be used in front end btw? Like as an advanced search snippet..

Of course it does

I’m using a modified version of the tvexplorer snippet code in the module.

But for now it doesn’t allow to search through text, textarea, richtext and number tv type.

:-)

"- 1 line to change in ditto class in buildUrl function
- 2 new filters in ditto filter.class.php file
and 1 extender"

You can code filters in extenders. See the example extender. What line in the ditto class do you need to change and why?

Hi mark,

here is the involved line (it has changed a bit in the latest ditto version, it’s almost the last line of the buildUrl(), my apologises for non posting the exact line but I don’t have acces to my source code tonight )
$url = $modx->makeURL($cID, ’’, $queryString);

My changes are as follows :

$url = (isset($modx->documentObject[’id’])) ? $modx->makeURL($cID, ’’, $queryString) : ’index.php?id=’.$GLOBALS[’modID’].$queryString;

I need the id param in the query string to execute the module in the manager.
I haven’t found a more elegant way to do it for now.

About the filters i will try to change my code to create an extender and that way allow peple using tveditor without changing their ditto files.


:-)

My main concern about filter is that in tveditor they are working by pair (does it make sense)
i had written a post about the way tvexplorer & tveditor are using filters.
I will post it here to give you more informations
here is a part of the post

tvExplorer will produce additionnal filters to insure a better results list.
To do so we will exclude from listings documents which have among their Tv values one of the unselected options

So filters will be
F1 : &filter:tvAppellation,ChateauNeuf du Pape,7|tvAppellation,Bourgogne,7|tvCouleur,Rouge,7|tvCouleur,Rosé,7|Categorie,Grand crû,7

OR

F2 : &filter:tvAppellation,ChateauNeuf du Pape,1|tvAppellation,Bourgogne,1|tvCouleur,Rouge,1|tvCouleur,Rosé,1|Categorie,Grand crû,1

+ filters tvExplorer
=> tvAppellation,Côtes du Rhone,2|tvAppellation,Bordeaux,2|tvCouleur,Blanc,2|Categorie,Vin AOC,2|Categorie,Vin de Pays,2|

we obtain the expected result:
Bourgogne wines OR Chateauneuf du pape AND Rouge OR Rosé AND Grand Crû

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,11549.msg77853.html#msg77853

After reading my post I think that’s not big deal about filters.
I will apply my new filter by default

In the Front end(tvexplorer snippet), people have the ability to define filterOn and filterOff in a config chunk

So please forget the part of my post forget about filters.

:-)

is it possible to do a range query for some tv value in tvexplorer? like if user has a dropdown tv for year, is it possible to do a range search in tvexplorer for that tv where year is between some values?