TV-Based Chunks

Quote from: lokust at Jun 15, 2009, 07:06 PM

Evening all,

This issue has been resolved - please find the amended snippet code for parse_chunks snippet below.
The snippet now allows snippets embedded in chunks to run correctly.

Full credits and gratitude to Aleksander (Modx user: Alik)

<?php
$ar_chunks = split(',',$chunks);
$ar_chunks = array_unique($ar_chunks);
 
$output = '';
 
foreach ($ar_chunks as $chunk) {
  if ($chunk != '') {
    $c = $modx->getChunk($chunk); /*** now string $c contains chunk's content -> raw mix of html and modx tags ***/
    /*** now it is a time to parse snippet tags in string $c ***/
    $c = $modx->evalSnippets($c); /*** yeah! done! ***/
    /*** of course, it might be done with a single step :)
      $output .= $modx->evalSnippets($modx->getChunk($chunk));
      important notice: evalSnippet function recognizes only cached version of snippets [[...]]
     ***/
    if ($c) $output .= $c;
  }
}
 
return $output;
?>

THANK YOU!!!

Quote from: Bruno17 at Jul 09, 2009, 12:51 AM

doesn’t it work this way?:

make the TV not a checkbox, but Text-TV and write your chunks you want comma-seperated.

chunkA,chunkB,chunkC,chunkD

chunkB,chunkA,chunkF,chunkC

That works, but it kind of defeats the original purpose of Shaun’s TV-based chunks which automatically shows all the chunks in a given category.

http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Create_TV-Based_Chunks

The original is great for showing all items in a given category. The ’fix’ is great for giving control over which items appear on each page by allowing the user/admin to select only what they want to appear. I implemented ManagerManager with a few minor tweaks and now the user can control which items appear in their sidebar and control the sort-order per page as well.