PHP script to automatically create new MODx page?

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johnukmn Reply #1, 18 years, 6 months ago

Hi:

Is it possible to create a php script that creates a new MODx page? For example:

Have a script called add-job.php that you post an XML document to. The XML document might look like this:

<jobs>
	<job jid="DE/003">
		<title>Project Manager</title>
		<location>London</location>
		<type>Permanent</type>
		<salary>£40,000-£46,000 + Benefits</salary>
		<intro>Wehey... a cool job</intro>
		<content>A big description, may need to be in CDATA tags.</content>
	</job>
	<job jid="DE/004">
		<title>Some other job</title>
		<location>London</location>
		<type>Permanent</type>
		<salary>£40,000-£46,000 + Benefits</salary>
		<intro>Wehey... a cool job</intro>
		<content>A big description, may need to be in CDATA tags.</content>
	</job>
</jobs>

For each Job the script creates a new MODx page.

Is there a prebuilt plugin I can modify to my needs?.. or would I need to create something from scratch?

Many thanks in advance:

John

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ganeshXL Reply #2, 18 years, 6 months ago

I am not aware of any pre-built snippet/script that does exactly that.
However, if you know PHP, it wouldn’t be too hard to create something like this from scratch.

The Docmanager class would certainly come in handy: http://modxcms.com/Docmanager-881.html

As for parsing the XML, you should probably use the simpleXML functions that have been added in PHP5.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-xmlphp1.html

As for security / handling... it depends if you want people to use this function from the frontend or via the manager.
If the latter, you’d probably include your script as a MODx module.
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