[resolved - sort of] XML file tree using ditto?

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chriso20 Reply #1, 17 years, 3 months ago

Hey,

I need to create an XML document using ditto.

In ModX i have the following:

Gallery
|_2008
|_January
|_Image A

etc.. you get the idea.

How can i take that file tree and create an XML document that looks like this;

<gallery>
<year year="2009">
<January>
<image id="1" src="assets/2009/January/imageA.jpg">
</January>
</year>
</gallery>

(obviously i have more years, months and images)

Any help would be much appreciated!

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 17 years, 3 months ago

for me I would use my snippet Xett for this.

have to create a new projectfolder with the file getdatas.php in the includes-projectfolder:

<?php

$startid='819';//the gallery-folder
$imagecount=0;
$yeardocs=$modx->getDocumentChildren($startid);
$out_yeardocs=array();
if (count($yeardocs)>0){
	foreach($yeardocs as $yeardoc){
		$year=$yeardoc['pagetitle'];
		$monthdocs=$modx->getDocumentChildren($yeardoc['id']);
        $out_monthdocs=array();
		if (count($monthdocs)>0){
	    foreach($monthdocs as $monthdoc){
	    $month=$monthdoc['pagetitle'];	
		$imagedocs=$modx->getDocumentChildren($monthdoc['id']);
		$out_imagedocs=array();
		    if (count($imagedocs)>0){
		    	foreach ($imagedocs as $imagedoc){
		    		$imagecount++;
					$imagedoc['count']=$imagecount;
		    		$imagedoc['month']=$month;
					$imagedoc['year']=$year;
					$out_imagedocs[]=$imagedoc;
		    	}
		    }
		    $monthdoc['innerrows']['images']=$out_imagedocs;
			$out_monthdocs[]=$monthdoc;
	    }
	
        }
		$yeardoc['innerrows']['months']=$out_monthdocs;
		$out_yeardocs[]=$yeardoc;		
	}
	
}

$xettdatas['innerrows']['years']=$out_yeardocs;

?>

and in the templates-projectfolder these files:
xetouterTpl.html:

<gallery>
[+xett.innerrows.years+]
</gallery>

yearsTpl.html:

<year year="[+xett.row.pagetitle+]">
[+xett.innerrows.months+]
</year>

monthsTpl.html:

<[+xett.row.pagetitle+]>
[+xett.innerrows.images+]
</[+xett.row.pagetitle+]>

and imagesTpl.html:

<image id="[+xett.row.count+]" src="assets/[+xett.row.year+]/[+xett.row.month+]/[+xett.row.pagetitle+].jpg"/>

and call it with

[!Xett? &project_path=`xmltest` &service=`xmltest`!]

if the new createt projectfolders are

assets
-snippets
--Xett
---projectfiles
----xmltest
-----xmltest
------templates
------includes

made a test here: http://www.red-dragon-cup.de/bocksbeutel/index.php?id=819 (you have to look to the sourcecode to see the result)

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Thanks!

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chriso20 Reply #3, 17 years, 3 months ago

thanks for replying!

Surely this is possible with just ditto?

like ditto including a template for the years then that years template includes months then that includes the images?

can you call ditto from within chunks or snippets?

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sottwell Reply #4, 17 years, 3 months ago

If you want an entire document served as an XML document, just call Ditto with the &format=`xml` and set the document’s Content Type to text/xml. Generating a feed works this way also with &format=`rss`.

Here are the default tpls used for XML output; you can specify your own chunk tpls in the Ditto call to replace them:

$xml_header = <<<TPL
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="[+xml_charset+]" ?>
[+xml_xsl+]
<xml version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
		<channel>
				<title>[*pagetitle*]</title>
				<link>[+xml_link+]</link>
				<description>[*description*]</description>
				<language>[+xml_lang+]</language>
				<copyright>[+xml_copyright+]</copyright>
				<ttl>[+xml_ttl+]</ttl>
TPL;

$xml_tpl = <<<TPL
		<item>
			<title>[+xml_pagetitle+]</title>
			<link>[(site_url)][~[+id+]~]</link>
			<summary><![CDATA[ [+xml_introtext+] ]]></summary>
			<date>[+xml_createdon+]</date>
			<createdon>[+xml_createdon+]</createdon>
			<author>[+xml_author+]</author>
			[+tags+]
		</item>
TPL;

$xml_footer = <<<TPL
			</channel>
</xml>
TPL;

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chriso20 Reply #5, 17 years, 3 months ago

sorry bruno17, i’m having some difficulty understanding how to implement your plugin.

Do you have any documentation? Or could you talk me through how to use it?

Thanks - it looks like your plugin will do the trick (when i get it working!)

Chris

EDIT: i’ve just made a quick page outside of modx to generate the xml i required. Thanks for your help all the same