How to display menu in Parent and Siblings Only

I have a 2nd level menu created in DropMenu in 0.9.2.2 and I want to be able to display it in the parent and sibling documents only. I don’t want to necessarily do it with multiple templates.

I would think that I could create either a snippet or a TV (don’t really understand these yet) that offers a conditional like:



I know the above syntax is not entirely correct and would obviously correct the php when implementing.

I just wonder if this is doable and if I can use MODx’s built in variables within or do I have to use the function calls to do this? Is there a better way to do this with a TV or am I off the mark here?

Hi,

You could try to do it using a TV

1/Create a chunk (named myMenu for instance) in wich you paste the dropMenu call.

2/Create a Tv named displayMenu
TV type=>radio
In options value=>None==||myMenu=={{myMenu}}
In default value=>@INHERIT
Attach the Tv to your template.

3/Insert [* displayMenu*] in your template

4/ Edit the parent document and set displayMenu value to myMenu

That should work.
You could also have alook to PHX plugins which allows conditionnal syntax.

:-)

heliotrope,

thanks for the suggestion but I didn’t get it to work. I am not really clear on the use of TVs yet as I haven’t seen enough simple examples yet. I still have a lot to learn using MODx and am not able to debug any mistakes I may have made.

I know it is not the best scenario but I was able to get it to work in the following way (the way I had figured in the first place):

I created a Chunk called homes_menu and then I created a Snippet called show_homes_menu with the following code:



I then inserted [[show_homes_menu]] in my place_subcontent chunk.

Part of my requirement was that I wanted to be able to have the menu in a common chunk instead of sticking it into the document or the document parent.

There may have been an easier way to do this and I also expect that I could take this one further and check the current id and if there was a menu associated with it, display it. It could be done with an array or some such.

SectionRoots would do the trick I think or GetChunkByUPID or UltimateParent itself.

Try this, it’s a lot more "MODx" and a lot more fun:

sottwell,

I see that that should make more sense. I don’t see where the variable ’site_start’ came from. Is this somewhere in the documentation? I found the other information I was looking for here: http://modxcms.com/document-tvs.html but don’t see it there.

All the best,

Jay

The $modx->config array contains all of the information in the site_configuration table in the database, plus a bit more. This includes site_start and site_name, which are commonly used. Outside of snippet code, these are [(site_name)] and [(site_start)].

In one of your snippets, put this code:

and you’ll get a pageful. I saved that to a text file and keep it handy for reference.