getResource - why string output if no template is defined

Hi,

If no template is defined for getResource the output is a string not an array.



will output



I need to use the output as an array, loop through the results, make some changes and then output the result. Since the output is a string I think I need to do a reverse print_r.

Is there a way to avoid the reverse print_r by making getResources output an array?

Thank you

Snippets cannot return anything except a string. What you want to do is use one Snippet to populate a placeholder containing your array, then use a second Snippet to iterate over that array retrieved with $modx->getPlaceholder(). I use this technique a lot, especially if I need to iterate over a collection of objects multiple times (e.g. to create anchor links to items listed in the main content).

Quote from: OpenGeek at Apr 14, 2010, 04:10 PM

populate a placeholder containing your array

You lost me here. I’ll have a look at the Revo placeholders and see what I can find.

If this doesn’t work I’m thinking of making my own snippet based on getResources. It might be simpler. Duplicate getResources, remove unwanted parameters and output what I need.

Thank you

What are you trying to achieve here? It looks to me you care calling get resources in another snippet/custom snippet. It may make sense just to write a custom snippet to do what you need with the data without getResources, manipulate the data and output the data as needed. Maybe if we had a picture of your intended outcome we could helpf further.

So,

I am building a calendar with events. getResources is enough to get all the regular events but I also have weekly events.

Weekly events are defined by a TV that has a number value.

For example:

Title: Event 1
Start Date: 20 Apr 2010
Weekly Recurrence Number: 5

That means that from one event I have to create another 4 events with 4 different start dates. The start dates will be calculated by adding 7 days to the initial start date.

I think in Evo this was possible, because I could use Ditto to output my initial array, than parse the array, look for a weekly number and add the weekly events in another "for" loop.

I hope it makes sense.

Thank you

I won’t get into this too much, I’ll just say representing events as individual Resources is IMO, not the proper solution. Resources in MODx to me are like Views; Events are data that can be presented in many different ways or used for web services, or etc. You limit their usefulness and reusability by making them Resources.

I agree with you but I don’t have another option right now.

The thing is that 25% of the events will have content, the rest will be just external links. Even more they have certain properties like Region, Type etc

I don’t plan to reuse them for now. This is version 1 so I need to make something like a proof of concept and get it going. I’ll refine it in version 2.

In the future I might export it to a custom table and do a module.

I also want to say that I made my own code based on getResources and works really well.

Thx again for your input.