if anyone is interested i solved this problem with the following snippet. it’s probably not the most efficient way of doing it but i’m fairly new to PHP and i don’t know the inner workings of MODx well yet.
anyways ...
<?php
$rsContent = $modx->db->select("id,content", "modx_jot_content", "published=1", "RAND()", "1");
$arr = mysql_fetch_array($rsContent);
$id = $arr['id'];
$content = $arr['content'];
$rsFields = $modx->db->select("content", "modx_jot_fields", "label='name' AND id=".$id);
$arr = mysql_fetch_array($rsFields);
$name = $arr['content'];
$rsFields = $modx->db->select("content", "modx_jot_fields", "label='location' AND id=".$id);
$arr = mysql_fetch_array($rsFields);
$location = $arr['content'];
$strReturn = "<div id='TestimonialHighlightCopy'>".$content."</div><div id='TestimonialHighlightCredit'>- ".$name.", ".$location."</div>";
return $strReturn;
?>
