Ditto @CODE inconsistency?

Can someone explain to me why tpl=`@CODE foo` is not always working as expected?

Example:

This works fine:


This doesn’t:

The error I get is: &tpl either does not contain any placeholders or is an invalid chunk name, code block, or filename. Please check it.

However, if I put the same HTML-block
<a href="[~[+id+]~]" title="[+longtitle+]"><strong>[+pagetitle+]</strong></a> (doc id [+id+])

into a chunk and call it like this:

it works again.

What causes one kind of @CODE usage to be parsed by Ditto, but not another? Is it the use of double quotes? The tilde ~ character?

I’ve been testing this on the latest stable modx release, with Ditto 2.0.2 + 2.1. In the german forum someone noticed the @CODE not working at all.
I’ve tried using tpl=`@CODE: foo` as well (adding : after @CODE), that doesn’t make any difference.

MODx 0.9.6.1p2 (rev 3281)
Ditto 2.0.2 + Ditto 2.1

I searched the forum, but couldn’t find any related posts. I’d be happy if someone could shed some light on this. Using @CODE is a very cool feature imho. Sometimes you just want to enter small bits of HTML directly into the Ditto call and don’t want to create an extra chunk, but if it’s behaving erratically, I’d rather not depend on it...

You are missing @CODE in your "This doesn’t:" example.

Sorry, that was just an error when pasting stuff here in the forum. I’ve corrected it now.

If you try the same kind of code, does it work for you?

I think ’=’ can not be used in snippet parameters.

Wayfinder config files which use the @CODE feature also have url’s with "=" in them, so I don’t think that can be the problem in this case.
Maybe it is the tilde character?

= characters cannot be used in snippet parameters. They can be used in config files however.

Thanks for clarifying Mark.

I don’t think that you can use " " in the snippet parameter like that.

I think you can use something else instead of the equals sign (e.g. EQ) and then translate it to "=" in your snippet.

Bob

Alright. Guess these are all things I should know by now. Shame on me; I simply forgot about these snippet character exclusion rules. Back to using chunks then...