[Snippet] SectionRoots

This snippet find its way back to a folder that you can specify in the snippet call or in the config below
and displays that id number. Great to set different roots for DropMenu for instance when making
a multilangual site where the root must not be 0 but the folder of the language that is active.
e.g. [[SectionRoots?Sec_roots=1,2,3,4,5,6]] if none is found it wil return 0
Based on ListSections made by Jared

Dimmy

Hi Dimmy,

thx for sharing! One question: How do you call it for the dropmenu snippet? Directly in the dropmenu-call or via TV? Because it doesn´t work here when I put it directly in the dropmenu call. Nor with TV. This one here doesn´t work:



Obviously it´s not possible to call a snippet within a snippet?

Thx in advance
Marc

Quote from: MadeMyDay at Mar 30, 2006, 02:29 PM

Obviously it´s not possible to call a snippet within a snippet?

Not yet, but Raymond is working on the recursive parser which (if I understood correctly) will allow for this kind of snippet call

I´m not surprised

actualy it works great for me

but call it like this:
[!DropMenu? &startDoc=`[[SectionRoots?Sec_roots=1,2,3,4,5,6,108,118,144,161,174,190]]`&subdiv=true &subdivClass=nav2!]

some other exaples of this snippet I used one this site:
[!ListGlobal?LGlob_node=[[SectionRoots?Sec_roots=106,107]]!]
<link href="css/basic_[!SectionRoots?Sec_roots=106,107!].css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
<img height="43" src="assets/images/menulijnen/toplijn_[!SectionRoots?Sec_roots=106,107!].png" width="825" alt="" />

to make a snippetcall function within a snippet call you must call it like [[snippet]] instead of[!snippet!] for it to work.

working on this site http://danielson.tidestream.com

go here for the german part (still in translation)

http://danielson.tidestream.com/index.php?id=111

will be in dutch english german and french

all done with one template

p.s. also only 1 dropmenu the same call for the submenu and the subsub menu on the right: http://danielson.tidestream.com/index.php?id=139

for the top menu I used ListGlobal (see call above)

Niceness, Dimmy! Very good menu usability on the site, I like it alot. Good job!

Thx Dimmy, have to try out tomorrow, a test usage failed. Think I forgot something else

But thank you, this is a very handy thing especially for multilingual content.

Marc

Agreed, a very nice thing indeed, and great idea to use this for multilingual !
Another MODx easter egg, calling a snippet from withing a snippet, how did you find that ? Done some documentparserclass reading ?? Should do that one day...

Anyway, I have to try this too...

is sectionroots something that can be used like this

folder 1 <- include as topmenu in dropmenu
doc-a
doc-b
doc-c

the dropmenu won’t call the folder only the docs inside the folder

as a makeshift i had to create an additional folder to contain all then refered to the top folder

the idea was to have your main menus that appear then the docs as related pages