Snippet to show descriptionfield

Hi
I’m new to ModX (and PHP) - and about to reveal it - and i’m trying to make a snippet that returns the description field of the current document: I tried somthing like this:

if(!isset($pid) || $pid == ’’)
{
$pid = $etomite->documentIdentifier; //current document
}

//current document
$current = $etomite->getDocument($pid,’description’);


return $current;

I call it like this: [[getDescription]] - and nothing happens.

Any suggestion?

Thanks ind advance...

Meta,
the getDocument function returns an array so you would need to return the value like this:



If all you want to do is display the description on the current page you don’t need a snippet though. You can use the Document-Specific Template Variable [*description*]

Here is a link to all of the Document-Specific Template Variables: http://modxcms.com/document-variables.html

For future reference, you should replace all $etomite calls with $modx.

Thanks a lot! The template variable was exactly what I was looking for...