[solved] ditto: including TV image name only, not the full folder path

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nickf08 Reply #1, 15 years, 11 months ago

Hello,

I am using EVO 1.0.4 with Ditto 2.1.0.

I am using ditto to create a simple menu to insert image info into an xml document for a monoslideshow flash slideshow.

The menu is created from pages that contain just a page title and an image TV.

How do I include only the image name (eg name.jpg) not the full path (eg assets/images/slideshow/name.jpg)?

My ditto call is:

[[Ditto? id=`ditto-slide` &parents=`1` &depth=`2` &tpl=`slideshowH-row` ]]

My template for the image row is:

<image source="[+product-image+]" title="[+pagetitle+]" />

The product-photo TV is a TV with input type Image so that the end user can upload and view the image on the page in the manager.

The current result for the images menu is :

<image source="assets/images/slideshow/name.jpg" title="blah 1" />
<image source="assets/images/slideshow/anothername.jpg" title="blah 2" />
<image source="assets/images/slideshow/differentname.jpg" title="blah 3" />

I need the end result to look like:

<image source="name.jpg" title="blah 1" />
<image source="anothername.jpg" title="blah 2" />
<image source="differentname.jpg" title="blah 3" />

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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jwmsales Reply #2, 15 years, 11 months ago

One simple way would be to create a second TV asking for the name of the file and insert that.

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nickf08 Reply #3, 15 years, 11 months ago

Thanks JWMSales - that’s a great suggestion.

It might be subject to client keying / pasting error though??

Can anyone think of a way to do it dynamically?

The folder path is always going to be: assets/images/slideshow/

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ottogal Reply #4, 15 years, 11 months ago

I need the end result to look like:
<image source="name.jpg" title="blah 1" />

Why there is a need for that?

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nickf08 Reply #5, 15 years, 11 months ago

Unfortunately monoslideshow needs the folder path up the top:
<album itemPath="/assets/images/slideshow/">

and no folder path with the image:
<image source="name.jpg" title="blah 1" />

otherwise it doesn’t work

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sottwell Reply #6, 15 years, 11 months ago

Use a snippet to process the TV output.

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nickf08 Reply #7, 15 years, 11 months ago

good thinking. if I knew how to do that I wouldn’t be asking how to do it.

Anyone out there know how to write the snippet for me? Happy to paypal.

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sottwell Reply #8, 15 years, 11 months ago

<?php
$tv = $modx->getTemplateVar('image'); // use the name of your image TV here in place of 'image'
$fullpath = $tv['value'];
$filename = basename($fullpath);
return $filename;
?>

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nickf08 Reply #9, 15 years, 11 months ago

Thanks Susan, wow - that looks awesome and is very much appreciated.

Alas I am an absolute coding dunce!

My call remains as:

[!Ditto? id=`ditto-slide` &parents=`1` &depth=`2` &tpl=`slideshowH-row` !]

I changed my template to:

<image source="[[imagePath]]" title="[+pagetitle+]" />

And I created a snippet called imagePath:

<?php
$tv = $modx->getTemplateVar('product-image'); // use the name of your image TV here in place of 'image'
$fullpath = $tv['value'];
$filename = basename($fullpath);
return $filename;
?>

This returns a blank for the images:

<image source="" title="Blah 1"/>

I also tried without success:
[*product-image*]
[+product-image+]

Maybe there is hope for me somewhere but I don’t rate my chances as a coder!

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sottwell Reply #10, 15 years, 11 months ago

Hmm. Did you try the snippet uncached [!...!]?

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