Question
How can I use the MODx API to fetch fully parser processed output into a variable? I have a page id and an instance of $modx standing by..
Background info
I developed a simple mailer which retrieves MODx documents published in the last 7 days.
It loops through the results and makes emails in which subject=pagetitle and body=document content. I use the webuser email adresses as recipients and I send mails through swift library. The script is stored below public_html and is triggered weekly by a cronjob.
The actual problem
It works very nicely *but* the internal links in format [~283~] doesn’t get replaced. For now I’m not concerned with chunks and snippet output but the links must be valid. Otherwise there is not point to mailing a document.
Edit : A semi-solution
The documentparser puts it results into documentOutput which i can retrieve after calling executeParser. However it forces an echo and a buffer flush so there is some overhead but it works with this:
define(PUBLIC_HTML, "public_html/"); // change according to webserver configuration
require_once(PUBLIC_HTML.'manager/includes/config.inc.php');
require_once(PUBLIC_HTML.'manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php');
/* @var $modx DocumentParser */
$modx = new DocumentParser();
$_REQUEST['id'] = 175;
$modx->executeParser(); // unfortunately this will not just set $modx->documentOutput but echo/flush it too
$mymsg = $modx->documentOutput;
echo "<br><hr><br>$mymsg"; // test if our variable contains the output
Edit 2 :
There is still the problem that the domain name will be missing from the urls. Unfortunately Tinymce config must be changed to store full urls, see
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=56352.0.
