Calling a chunk from inside another chunk.

This may be a dumb question. But is there a way to call a chunk from inside another chunk? Because what I want to do is have one chunk that outputs some code, and then another chunk that calls the first chunk to output some code, but then with a little bit more code at the end.

ie.
chunk A output:
’this is some code from chunk A’

chunk B output:
’this is some code from chunk A’
’and this is the code from chunk B’

That way I wouldn’t have to edit two chunks if I wanted to change ’this is some code from chunk A’.

I tried it using Ditto and it didn’t work.

Chunks can be nested:

ChunkA


ChunkB


A chunk can contain any MODx tags.

sottwell, thank you. You got me thinking.

I thought I had nested chunks before, but it was because I was using Ditto that it didn’t work.

I’ll use your example because it is easier to understand. ChunkA didn’t have any placeholders so I got this error because it was Ditto calling the chunk:
’&tpl either does not contain any placeholders or is an invalid chunk name, code block, or filename. Please check it.’

So to fix it I just put this in ChunkA to satisfy Ditto looking for placeholders.


Now I have one chunk that outputs the post ChunkB (BlogTemplate), and another chunk ChunkA (BlogTemplate_All_Posts_But_Last_One) that outputs ChunkB then outputs a divider for every post except the last one.

Here is my Ditto call.



The reason I did it this way is because I wanted to only edit one chunk, if I wanted to change how the posts were displayed. Instead of having to edit multiple chunks with similar code in each.


Related posts/questions that got me to my final answer.
http://ditto.modxcms.com/files/snippet-ditto-php.html#tpl
http://ditto.modxcms.com/files/snippet-ditto-php.html#tplLast
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,54299.msg313534.html#msg313534