[Solved] Blog with diffrent type of tpl

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norlin Reply #1, 16 years, 4 months ago

Hi is it possible to make a blog with Ditto, and then have an option (using a tv) to choose if the post is an announcement, news item or article. Based on this i want ditto to display a diffrent tpl chunk, so that each "type" of post will have a unique look on the blog.

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hotdiggity Reply #2, 16 years, 4 months ago

phx should do the trick, so, if you have it installed, in your Ditto template chunk try putting something like this:

[+phx:if=`[+optionTV+]`:is=`announcement`:then=`{{announceChunkTpl}}`:if=`[+optionTV+]`:is=`blog`:then=`{{blogChunkTpl}}`:if=`[+optionTV+]`:is=`news`:then=`{{newsChunkTpl}}`+]

Mostly harmless.

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norlin Reply #3, 16 years, 4 months ago

Quote from: hotdiggity at May 08, 2010, 05:42 AM

phx should do the trick, so, if you have it installed, in your Ditto template chunk try putting something like this:

[+phx:if=`[+optionTV+]`:is=`announcement`:then=`{{announceChunkTpl}}`:if=`[+optionTV+]`:is=`blog`:then=`{{blogChunkTpl}}`:if=`[+optionTV+]`:is=`news`:then=`{{newsChunkTpl}}`+]

I have installed PHx 2.1.3 and running Modx evo 1.0.3

My structure is as following:

[_]Frontpage
[_]Blog (id=35)
-post1
-post2
-post3

On my frontpage i have a ditto snippet call:

[!Ditto? &parents=`35` &paginate=`1` &tpl=`blogTpl` &dateSource=`pub_date` &orderBy=`pub_date DESC` &display=`5` &language=`danish` &dateFormat=`%d/%m/%Y` !]

My TV for choosing post type is called: "postType" and is a DropDown list menu with these input values:

Nyhed==Nyhed||Annoncering==Annoncering||Artikel==Artikel

so the PHx call needs to be something like this right:

[+phx:if=`[+postType+]`:is=`Annoncering`:then=`{{blogNyhed}}`:if=`[+postType+]`:is=`Nyhed`:then=`{{blogNyhed}}`:if=`[+postType+]`:is=`Artikel`:then=`{{blogArtikel}}`+]

(Annoncering and Nyhed uses same tpl)

but where do i place PHx call exactly? in "blogTpl" chunk and then make these two ditto tpl chunks {{blogNyhed}} {{blogArtikel}} - that dosent seem to work for me =)

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sottwell Reply #4, 16 years, 4 months ago

Ditto has its own phx, so you don’t need to install the plugin if you’re only using it for Ditto tpls.

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Bruno17 Reply #5, 16 years, 4 months ago

in your blogTpl place:

[+postType:is=`Annoncering`:then=`{{blogNyhed}}+]
[+postType:is=`Nyhed`:then=`{{blogNyhed}}`+]
[+postType:is=`Artikel`:then=`{{blogArtikel}}`+]

or try to place this snippet:

[[showchunk? &chunkname=`[+postType+]`]]

snippet-code:

<?php
return '{{'.$chunkname.'}}';
?>

the value in [+postType+] has to be the same as your chunkname then.
may be you have to use &hiddenFields or &hiddenfields with your placeholder-fields, because they are perhaps hidden for ditto when preparsing the chunk.

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norlin Reply #6, 16 years, 4 months ago

Hmm i cant seem to get any of this to work properly.
Thanks for trying, i guess ill have to compromise.

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hotdiggity Reply #7, 16 years, 4 months ago

Try pasting the actual code into the phx calls inside "blogTpl", make sure all your `backticks` are in order too:

[+phx:if=`[+postType+]`:is=`Annoncering`:then=`



`+]

[+phx:if=`[+postType+]`:is=`Nyhed`:then=`



`+]

[+phx:if=`[+postType+]`:is=`Artikel`:then=`



`+]

Mostly harmless.

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norlin Reply #8, 16 years, 4 months ago

Yay, got it working! Thanks a ton guys laugh

I ended up using ditto’s phx, as suggested by sottwell, with hotdiggity’s most recent post. There are some strange things going on i can’t figure out, if i make a normal space between certain div tags (in the tpl code inside then=``) ditto displays nothing. Anyways it works and im very happy with the result. <3