Support/Comments for getResources 1.0.0-beta3

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Zombie Reply #1, 16 years, 10 months ago

This is an auto-generated topic for <a href="http://modxcms.com/extras/package/552">getResources 1.0.0-beta3</a> by splittingred.

Brief Description:
This is an initial release of getResources, a light-weight Ditto-alternative for MODx Revolution.

- Added in snippet properties.
- This version will only work in Revolution-2.0.0-beta5 or later.

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Jay Gilmore Reply #2, 16 years, 10 months ago

Just wondering if it makes sense that if you wish to display all documents that are children of the root document i.e.: ID 0 that the following line be changed as !empty returns FALSE to a 0 value vs isset which will return true to a non-empty value.

I found this thread that offers the solution

Current Line 70:

<?php //for highlighting
$parents = !empty($parents) ? explode(',', $parents) : array($modx->resource->get('id'));

Could be changed to:

<?php //for highlighting
$parents = isset($parents) ? explode(',', $parents) : array($modx->resource->get('id'));

This will allow you to set &parents=`0` (which currently returns nothing.) and output from the root.

There may be a better way to handle this but it works as is.

Cheers,

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ronaldlokers Reply #3, 16 years, 7 months ago

I would like to have a parameter to be able to hide containers from the output.

This is a great addition if you have a blog setup like this:

Blog
- 2009
--December
---post1
---post2
-2010
--January
---post1
--February
---post1
---post2
---post3

What I want is to only show the posts, not the folders they’re in, I think the easiest is to skip "containers" from the output. Is it possible to add a parameter like that?

with regards,

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BobRay Reply #4, 16 years, 7 months ago

Quote from: MediaGuy at Feb 19, 2010, 04:16 PM

I would like to have a parameter to be able to hide containers from the output.

Have you tried

&hideContainers=`1`

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ronaldlokers Reply #5, 16 years, 7 months ago

Quote from: BobRay at Feb 19, 2010, 05:05 PM

Quote from: MediaGuy at Feb 19, 2010, 04:16 PM

I would like to have a parameter to be able to hide containers from the output.

Have you tried
&hideContainers=`1`

Forgot to post a reply here, on irc opengeek also told me to try that parameter! The problem was that it was not in the documentation nor in the drap/drop setting list.

The parameter works perfect, just what I was looking for

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BobRay Reply #6, 16 years, 7 months ago

Quote from: MediaGuy at Feb 20, 2010, 04:50 AM

Quote from: BobRay at Feb 19, 2010, 05:05 PM
Quote from: MediaGuy at Feb 19, 2010, 04:16 PM

I would like to have a parameter to be able to hide containers from the output.

Have you tried
&hideContainers=`1`
Forgot to post a reply here, on irc opengeek also told me to try that parameter! The problem was that it was not in the documentation nor in the drap/drop setting list.

The parameter works perfect, just what I was looking for

I got lucky and found it in the getResources source code by searching for "container." wink

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ronaldlokers Reply #7, 16 years, 7 months ago

Is it possible to filter dynamicly according to a TV value? I want to make a tagcloud for my blog, so I want to be able to add some parameters to the url to say which tag should be shown.

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Garry Nutting Reply #8, 16 years, 7 months ago

I did recently do a tag page using getResources - here is the example (note, I used getPage as a wrapper for getResources so I could have paging on the results):

[[!requestToPlaceholders]]
[[!getPage? 
   &elementClass=`modSnippet`
   &element=`getResources`

   &parents=`3`
   &limit=`10`
   &pageVarKey=`page`

   &sortby=`createdon`
   &sortdir=`DESC`

   &includeTVs=`1`
   &includeContent=`1`
   &tvFilters=`tags==%[[!+modx.request.tags]]%`

   &tpl=`blogListing`
]]
<div class="paging">
<ul class="pageList">
  [[!+page.nav]]
</ul>
</div>

In the above example, tags is my TV that contains my tag selection (I used a multi-select list but I suspect it’ll work fine with comma-delimited list as well)

The requestToPlaceholders is just a snippet I used to turn the $_GET parameters into placeholders so I could utilize a querystring parameter in the filtering, the contents of the snippet are:

<?php
$modx->toPlaceholders($_GET, 'modx.request');
return '';
?>

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ronaldlokers Reply #9, 16 years, 7 months ago

Great, that’s just what I am looking for!

//edit

Is there a way to show all results when the "tags" query isn’t used?

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gadamiak Reply #10, 16 years, 2 months ago

What a useful snippet! Would it be possible to extend it a bit to make it useful even more?

Allow to select resources directly (not their parents) and add them to the collection by, say, [tt]&resources=`id[, id]`[/tt]? It should be possible not to select any parents, and collect only resources of choice. Of course, the [tt]&depth[/tt] parameter should be ignored in this case.

That will allow to collect resources into a hand made list and, in special case, return value for a single resource a la Evo’s getField snippet.

Allow to use in-line template without need for the [tt]@INLINE[/tt] binding, which is not documented nor standard for MODx.

I filed a feature request for this: http://svn.modxcms.com/jira/browse/ADDON-160

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