Ditto in backend

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sinbad Reply #11, 17 years, 10 months ago

should have thought of that.
when I try it in my ManagerCode Chunk (which is visible on Welcome) I see the plain call.
when I add the call to welcome.static.php I get parse error because of the [ in the call.

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heliotrope Reply #12, 17 years, 10 months ago

Hi

as dev_cw said you have to use the $modx->runSnippet function in a php page.
The snippet call won’t be interpreted in the back end.

:-)

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sinbad Reply #13, 17 years, 10 months ago

that’s hot, working magically. $modx->runSnippet function is really nice.

Now this is some basic php so don’t get mad at me

anyone can tell whats the correct way to have multi parameters in the ditto call like so:

//ditto test
$dittoOutput = $modx->runSnippet(
        "Ditto",
        array(
              "tpl" => "<post><title>[+title+]</title><summary>[+summary+]</summary></post>"
            "parents" => "0"
            "display" => "all"
           
        )
);

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dev_cw Reply #14, 17 years, 10 months ago

You could also do:

<?php
//set the params
$params['tpl'] = "@CODE <post><title>[+title+]</title><summary>[+summary+]</summary></post>";
$params['parents'] = "0";
$params['display'] = "all";

//execute the snippet
return $modx->runSnippet("Ditto",$params);
?>

The main diff being that here we set the params array first then execute, in the other example the array is set within the snippet call. Both work the same. Note that I used the @CODE binding, I think that this is needed if you are using the code directly in the tpl rather than a chunk.

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sinbad Reply #15, 17 years, 10 months ago

just saw in the wiki http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/API:runSnippet

with just what I needed.

some styling and custom tpl and this thing will change my whole modx experience wink

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sinbad Reply #16, 17 years, 10 months ago

thanks for the replies! it’s amazing what u can do with modx

I have one more question if I may, I’m using the $dashboard from the wiki here to add items to the welcome screen, but now I want to add the Ditto call as well to same variable if I can.
no matter what I try I get parse errors. can someone correct me please how to do that?

// setup dashboard variable
$dashboard = $modx->getChunk('managerCode'); 
$dashboard = (
//set the params
$params['parents'] = "0";
$params['display'] = "10";
//execute the snippet
return $modx->runSnippet("Ditto",$params);
)

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dev_cw Reply #17, 17 years, 10 months ago

You are setting the dashboard 2x thus eliminating the 1st command. And you have some bad syntax in the second dashboard command.

Try it like this (note, added the php tags t get pretty colors):

<?php
//set the params
$params['tpl'] = "managerCode";
$params['parents'] = "0";
$params['display'] = "10";

//execute the snippet and load it into the dashboard variable
$dashboard = $modx->runSnippet("Ditto",$params);
?>

Now follow the tutorial from the "// setup message info" section by adding concatenating (adding to the variable by using the . ) the $msg variable

$msg = $dashboard . '

You did not need to do the first part since you are using Ditto to get the data not the getChunk api.

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sinbad Reply #18, 17 years, 10 months ago

Thanks shane, sorry I was not clear. I want to use both, ie, the Get Chunk for manual links ( had them before in my welcome.html page) , and then also have the ditto call/calls underneath that why I repeated the $dashboard, thought maybe it’ll output both.

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dev_cw Reply #19, 17 years, 10 months ago

OK, in that case you need to simply append the dashboard to include the chunk:

<?php
$dashboard = $modx->getChunk('managerCode'); 

//set the params
$params['tpl'] = "yourTPL here"; // change this to your tpl
$params['parents'] = "0";
$params['display'] = "10";

//execute the snippet and load it into the dashboard variable
$dashboard .= $modx->runSnippet("Ditto",$params);
?>

By changing the = to .= to the second dashboard declaration we are adding to the original $dashboard var rather than overwriting it.

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sinbad Reply #20, 17 years, 10 months ago

thanks a lot Shane. really appreciate the explanation.
so if I wanted to add more blocks i can just add them in another $dashboard .=?