Callout and Box layout question

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Lucas Reply #11, 15 years, 5 months ago

@dun: ’Switch’ is so basic it will run on Evo - not tested but don’t see why it wouldn’t work!

Just create a new snippet named ’switch’ and paste in the following:

<?php
/*
  * Switch
  *
  * Created by Uroš Likar
  * [email protected]
  * http://uros.likar.si
  *
  */
  
  if(empty($default)) $default = '';  
  $i = 1;  
  while(isset(${'c'.$i})){
    $case[$i] = trim(${'c'.$i});
    $do[$i] = trim(${'do'.$i});
    $i++;  
  }
  
  $key = array_search(trim($get),$case); 
  if(!empty($key)) $output = $do[$key]; else $output = $default;
    
  return $output;

Install UltimateParent and then try what I suggested. You’ll need to use Evo syntax and keep it all on one line:

[[switch? &get=`[[UltimateParent]]` &c1=`1` &do1=`{{chunk1}}` &c2=`2` &do2=`{{chunk2}}` &default=`{{chunk4}}`]]

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Mark Hamstra Reply #12, 15 years, 5 months ago

In Evolution you’ll probably need to combine cached & uncached syntax for UltimateParent to work with that method..

[!switch? &get=`[[UltimateParent]]` &c1=`1` &do1=`{{chunk1}}` &c2=`2` &do2=`{{chunk2}}` &default=`{{chunk4}}`!]

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Lucas Reply #13, 15 years, 5 months ago

^ What he said... forgot about that

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dun Reply #14, 15 years, 5 months ago

Thanks Lucas and Mark, I will work on it.

And now to get the heck out of Sean’s thread in case he needs to keep going... tongue

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Sean Kimball Reply #15, 15 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: dun at May 01, 2011, 10:33 PM

Thanks Lucas and Mark, I will work on it.

And now to get the heck out of Sean’s thread in case he needs to keep going...

haha - no problem, I just got back to this tonight... used Lucas’ solution, got it setup for 5 call-outs over 5 different slots in less than 1/2 hour... works perfectly..the onl;y drawback being that if you add another call-out you need to update all your TV’s - but we were expecting that anyway. The other nice thing about this is that you can "limit" which call-outs go in which slots good to keep clients from buggering the integrity of our designs

nice - every time I go to do something with Modx I’m always surprised at how fast & easy it really is.

Now I’m off to figure out how to hide a chunk from a specific user group.....

-thanks guys
-sean

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Lucas Reply #16, 15 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: sean69 at May 03, 2011, 09:25 PM

if you add another call-out you need to update all your TV’s

You’re gonna love this...

Copy your callout options (the pipe delimited list) into a chunk instead. Then in your TV under input option values:

@CHUNK chunkName

Where ’chunkName’ is the name of the chunk holding your callouts list.

Then you only need to update the one chunk if you want to add or remove something from the list cool

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Sean Kimball Reply #17, 15 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: lucas at May 04, 2011, 02:21 AM

Quote from: sean69 at May 03, 2011, 09:25 PM

if you add another call-out you need to update all your TV’s

You’re gonna love this...

Copy your callout options (the pipe delimited list) into a chunk instead. Then in your TV under input option values:
@CHUNK chunkName
Where ’chunkName’ is the name of the chunk holding your callouts list.

Then you only need to update the one chunk if you want to add or remove something from the list

Lucas, I’ve always said that if I ever run into a Drupal developer they would know the meaning of wrath, after seeing that little chunk, I can only feel pity for them....

-sean

*** Not just websites, we also create signage, banners, print, trade show displays and more! ***

Sean Kimball CLP, CLS.
Technical Director / Sr. Developer | BigBlock Studios
._______________________________________________.
Bigblock Studios http://www.bigblockstudios.ca Web site design & development.
27-1300 King Street East. Box 167 Oshawa, Ontario L1H8J4 Canada.
phone/fax: 905-426-5525