ultimateparent query..

hi


On my template I need to determine if the document requested has a particular parent.

I can determine if the document requested has the parent I am looking for with:

[[UltimateParent? &id=`[*id*]`]]

this returns the parent of the current document.

but I am unsure how i would put this information to use. I guess it needs to go in a placeholder for use within the TEMPLATE. I am unsure how to do this.

then on my template I will have:

if($currentDocumentsParent==X) { echo ’specific content’; } 

thanks.

To get the current document’s immediate parent, use [*parent*]. The UltimateParent snippet is for getting the top-level ancestor of a document two or more levels deep in the tree structure.

In a snippet, you would use $modx->documentObject[’parent’]. You can use a snippet like this:

hi

that makes sense but I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php on line 836

on my template I have:

snippets:

OpenBlogDiv

<?php

if($modx->documentObject[’parent’] == 2) {

$open=’<div class="start_my_div">’;

return $open;

}

?>

CloseBlogDiv

<?php

if($modx->documentObject[’parent’] == 2) {

$close=’</div>’;

return $close;

}

?>

I am trying to add an extra div to my content section if the document being requested is a child of a given parent (2 in this case). document 2 is a container. the reason for this is that otherwise my client would need to manually add the <start_my_div> div every time they created a new document INSIDE container#2.

I had hoped I could stop this by modifying the template:

if($documentParent=2) { print the open div }
[*content*]
if($documentParent=2) { print the close div }

this is only on certain pages. perhaps there is a better way of doing it?

hope this is clear enough

thanks

Can you post the entire error message? There should have been at least one more line.

I thought there should be as well, but no, it is only one line:

the source of the page is

intriguing

looks like using $this as a return variable was messing it up

serves me right for not using proper variable names. works fine now, thanks.

Ah, sorry; that was a very bad example to use!