Trouble with ditto and truncate.

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steve.mullen Reply #1, 16 years, 4 months ago

Hello, I am tring to show news on a homepage and want to limit the characters. I have read about using either [+summary+] or [+introtext+] and am not sure which to use. I have tried and neither seem to work.

Here is where I call ditto:

[[Ditto? &parents=`49` &tpl=`ditto.title.date.description` &dateFormat=`%b %d, %Y` &display=`3` &dateSource=`pub_date` &orderBy=`pub_date DESC` &trunc=`1` &truncLen=`219` &truncText=`...read more` ]]

and here is my template chunk:

<div class="item">
      <div class="date">
         [+date+]
          <strong>15</strong>
          <em>mar</em>
     </div>
     <div class="description">
          <h4><a href="[~[+id+]~]">[+pagetitle+]</a></h4>
          <p> [+summary+][+link+]</p>
     </div>
</div>

If I replace summary with content, I get the full text, but when I put summary or intro text I do not get anything.

I also have one other question regarding this, as you can see here:

<div class="date">
         [+date+]
          <strong>15</strong>
          <em>mar</em>
     </div>

I am wanting to put the day in strong, and the month in em. How can I split up +date+ like that?

Thanks for all the help!

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rivendell48 Reply #2, 16 years, 4 months ago

I’d repost in the Ditto thread. You might get a faster response there

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/board,180.0.html

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steve.mullen Reply #3, 16 years, 4 months ago

Thanks, I have posted over there. I tried to remove this post but it said I can not remove my own post?

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rivendell48 Reply #4, 16 years, 4 months ago

If you go into your own profile details from the top-left of the MODx Forum page (Hello steve.mullen), you can view all of your posts and should be able to delete from there. Hope that works and that you find your answer. Sorry that I can’t help more sad

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mrhaw Reply #5, 16 years, 4 months ago

You could use PHx modifiers
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,34709.msg210786.html#msg210786

And you can customise the date in the snippet call &dateFormat=`<strong>%b</strong> %d, %Y`

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samba Reply #6, 16 years, 4 months ago

Along with those good date ideas, if you’re going to use &trunc and its relatives, I believe you’ll need this in your call, too, to make [+summary+] work properly, as it’s deprecated:

&extenders=`summary`

If you’re getting unpredictable results, read about the "wandering" stuff here. It apparently tries to truncate at a sensible spot, thus overriding an exact number.
http://ditto.modxcms.com/extenders/summary.html

Cheers, Dave

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steve.mullen Reply #7, 16 years, 4 months ago

Great, thanks for the replies. I got it to work properly with the PHx plugin, but there is another problem, it is pulling [*content*] from homepage instead of the post. The title and date are correct, but the content is not.

Here is my ditto call:

[[Ditto? &parents=`49` &tpl=`ditto.title.date.description` &dateFormat=`<strong>%d</strong> <em>%b</em> ` &display=`3` &dateSource=`pub_date` &orderBy=`pub_date DESC` &extenders=`summary` &truncText=`read more` ]]

And template chunk:

<div class="item">
      <div class="date">
         [+date+]
     </div>
     <div class="description">
          <h4><a href="[~[+id+]~]">[+pagetitle+]</a></h4>
          <p> [*content:len:gt=`219`:then=`[*content:character_limit=`219`*]`:else=`[*content*]`*][+link+]</p>
     </div>
</div>

Any ideas why the homepage content would be showing and not the news post’s content?

Thanks.

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bunk58 Reply #8, 16 years, 4 months ago

[*content*] is the current page
[+content+] is a placeholder for the content of the gathered pages from Ditto, so ...

[+content:len:gt=`219`:then=`[+content:character_limit=`219`+]`:else=`[+content+]`*][+link+]

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steve.mullen Reply #9, 16 years, 4 months ago

Got it, thanks!