where to get good documentation on getResource

Hi

I’m running 2.1.1, installed getPage and getResource, and I’m new to MODX, and have to say it is a bit hard. But I guess many of you experienced the same when started.

I found the docs at http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/getResources

First question that arises when reading this is: what does [[!page.nav]] do? I cannot find any docs on this.

Second, I cannot get this work, and had hoped to find some hints to better understand how MODX does the thing

My template section

My chunk


The output I get is 3 rows (which is correct, the resource 3 is a folder and has 3 sub resources), but the output displays the details of the current resource displayed, and not of the resources returned in getResources.

I have to say that modx looks promising, but for now this is one of the hardest open source applications to understand.

Hi pdaalder,

Your calls are wrong in a couple places. &includeTVs=1 should be &includeTVs=`1` (forgot the hashmarks)

And [[*page_title]] in your chunk should be [[+pagetitle]]

Best practice I find to look for solutions (or documentation) is to use Google to search the modx forums, not the SMF forum search tool. I would’ve referred you to the rtfm site you linked to...

Hang in there, Modx can seem intimidating at the beginning but once you get the hang of it, it’s really versatile.

Cheers, the title part definetely was wrong,but still my chunk is displaying the info from the main page, and not from the getResource pages


My chunk is now


If I remove the &tpl, I do get the array dump, and the array is displaying the 3 pages as expected, but some how the tpl isn’t using that information, but the information of the current page.

Also, what does this part do: "<div class="pageNav">[[!+page.nav]]</div>". Is there some docs on the page.nav tag?

Cheers for your help. Also is there away to ’debug’ your templates/chunks, or to validate them?

You need this to get the values from the pages getResources is retrieving:



If START_DT (which shouldn’t have a question mark unless you’re going to add properties to the tag) is a TV, you’ll also need &tvPrefix=``.

sweet thnk this fixed it. many many thnx for pointing out the syntax error

Is the ’+’ specific to getResource? Do you know where i can find info on +page.nav?

Quote from: pdaalder at Jul 15, 2011, 12:31 PM

sweet thnk this fixed it. many many thnx for pointing out the syntax error

Is the ’+’ specific to getResource? Do you know where i can find info on +page.nav?

Good question. No, it’s common to any snippet that uses Tpl chunks. [[+placeholderName]] is a placeholder tag, which is what Tpl chunks always contain. The snippet replaces the placeholder tags in the Tpl chunk for each resource it retrieves.

[[*fieldName]] is a resource field/TV tag, and always gets the value from the current resource, no matter where it’s placed.