Catalogue solution (beta) [snippets + chunk + plugin]

I’ve made a catalogue solution to present articles, products or whatever you want.
It is in beta version, can you send me feedback ? Here is the demo, the codes follow.


Attachment: A screenshot of the edit mode.

What it does:

• All the "fields" for articles are tv or document fields : pagetitle, longtitle, description.
• Include maxiGallery snippet, you can add a gallery (with lightbox )for each article and manage it (dowload, sort, add, remove), see MaxiGallery snippet
• Full frontend edit after manager loggin, edit fields, add article, delete article, manage images.
• List of all articles with one thumb image for it (if set)

The files:

• A snippet to add an article
• A snippet to delete an article (and its gallery)
• A snippet to present a list of articles with one thumb
• A chunk that is a template to display full articles informations
• A plugin to redirect editor to the frontend with QuickEdit rights.

Todo:

• Add comment to the code
• write a good readme
• test and more

Here it is:

Each product is a document under a folder (utilised for the articles list) in the documents tree
The ListArticles page (the root folder for article):
It contains only a call to the [[ArticlesList]] snippet:
The database is searched to retrieve all articles, and then for each one we search if it has an image.
The content is displayed in a table
Each image (or non-image text) is linked to the article’s page.

The article Page:
It contains only a call to a chunk that is a template to diplay each article on one page:
{{ArticlesTpl}}
This chunk contains the fields to display the articles in a [*#NameFields*] so they can be edited with quickedit.
Somes are TV, other are page propriety (pagetitle, longtitle, description)
There is a call to maxigallery to display the gallery.
There is a link to return to the list of all the articles.
The call to [[RemoveArticle]] and [[AddArticle]] are used to add and remove an article.

The [[AddArticle]] snippet:

The [[RemoveArticle]] snippet:
And the redirect snippet to disallow manager access to non-Admin users:
You must add this new event in the "system_eventnames" table (this is the sql code):


Added these lines to the /manager/index.php at line 184, just before [tt]// first we check to see if this is a frameset request[/tt] to invoke the new event.
( I don’t know what to do with the parameter :[tt]array("action" => $action)[/tt])
// ****HACK**** New event added:
$modx->invokeEvent("OnBeforeManagerPageInit",array("action" => $action));
//***********************************************************************

In the Redirect plugin with the "Manager Access Events" "OnBeforeManagerPageInit" and "OnManagerLogin" checked.




PS:I’m not a coder and haven’t an high skill in english (isn’t it ?)

Very interresting, so far I have managed catalogues with... Ditto and TVs.
I guess it would be possible to use MaxiGallery on top of that, but never needed that so far.

I am curious to see your work !
I don’t know if the redirect part will be possible without hacking the core though...

I’ll be following progress and of course I am willing to help with the beta testing

$modx->sendRedirect, I think David.

Oops, I stand corrected !

Hello. Looks good and I don’t see any areas where it’s not working as I would expect it to work.

What are you using to publish and edit articles from the front end?

Keep up the great work.

In the Manger Users tab in 0.9.2.1, the first option under user settings will redirect them to a specified page. It does not apply pervasively to all users though, or by role. Your plugin in that regard is really a wonderful addition. I suppose you could extend it to redirect them to the front end page any time they try to access a manager page.

In the Quick Edit module, when you edit the configuration, there is an option to turn off the Manager link as well.

DavidM thanks for your help, I think I need some good MODxer

What are you using to publish and edit articles from the front end?

Each article are a document, to edit an article I use the cool QuickEdit for TV and page fields (pagetitle, description are in place why not use ? ).
To publish the list articles I make a call with the dbapi (It was more difficult to find a exemple, than to code:))
to find the thumb image.
The Article page is a simple lisr of TV and a call to the Maxigallery snippet.

I hope it answer to your question. (I hope that I had understand you).

Actually, wouldn’t that be "onBeforeManagerPageInit" ? Logically, "onManagerPageInit" happens on the event occurring (onclick, onmouseover, etc). So you should really create a new event, not hack or reposition the existing one.

Thanks for the info Susan. Here it is.

The new redirect plugin.

Added this new event in the "system_eventnames" table (this is the sql code):


Added these lines to the /manager/index.php at line 184, just before [tt]// first we check to see if this is a frameset request[/tt]
( I don’t know what to do with the parameter :[tt]array("action" => $action)[/tt])
// ****HACK**** New event added:
$modx->invokeEvent("OnBeforeManagerPageInit",array("action" => $action));
//***********************************************************************

In my plugin:
[tt]if ($_SESSION[’mgrPermissions’][’id’]!=’1’){$modx->sendRedirect($modx->config[’site_start’]); }[/tt]
with the "Manager Access Events" "OnBeforeManagerPageInit" and "OnManagerLogin" checked.

But after the redirect of an non-administrator user, the url is: [tt]
|-|ttp://localhost:85/modx/manager/processors/2[/tt] (2 is the id of my redirect page:[’site_start’])

Solved:
if ($_SESSION[’mgrPermissions’][’id’]!=’1’){$modx->sendRedirect($modx->makeurl($modx->config[’site_start’]));}


Is this the good method ?

ps: MODx nominate ok

Can someone tell me what that array("action"=>$action) is used for. The reason I ask, is that other events are invoked with a $this and no action parameter, like:

$this->invokeEvent(’OnPageNotFound’); (near line 97)


Also, wouldn’t it make sense to insert this event call in the portion where it checks for the presence of a Manager Login such as: