Jot commenting on a different page...

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antirem Reply #1, 17 years, 10 months ago

Ok.. so i have http://arezombiesattacking.com/

How it works is i have an archive folder and so i may have a page called "Dec 2, 2008" full of content. The homepage uses a ditto call to retrieve content like the answer for the day and [+content+].

On some days I would like to make it so users can answer questions... the issue is that when they comment it ends up on the homepage and not the archive page.

How do i make it so that if i call jot and someone comments the comment is added to the archive page?

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Zaigham (aka zi) Reply #2, 17 years, 10 months ago

I think you will have to play with placeholders, eg. switch off the output and generate placeholders. Then you can place the needed placeholders, and leave the un-needed out.

Use one set on homepage, which involves only the comment form and the second on the archive page. I think there is some id parameter which tell Jot to post the comments to specific doc.

See the wiki page for Jot, for more information.

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antirem Reply #3, 17 years, 10 months ago

Thanks.. here is how i did it...

made a chunk called most_recent_id ... this finds the newest pub_date document in folder 9

[[Ditto?startID=`9` &dateFormat=`%b %d, %Y` &hideFolders=`0` &descendentDepth=`1` &tpl=`most_recent_id_tpl`&displayArchive=`0` &total=`1` &summarize=`1` &showInMenuOnly=`1`]]

all the tpl does is grab the id of that document.. so..

[+id+]

So when i call {{most_recent}} it displays the id of the document w/ the highest pub_date in folder 9 (easy!)

in my jot i did

[!Jot? &cssFile=`jot.css`&captcha=`1` &customfields=`name,email` &subscribe=`1` &docid=`{{most_recent}}` &pagination=`50` &tplComments=`jot_tpl` &badwords=`dotNet` &canmoderate=`admin` !]

It was going to be a real pain manually copying everyone’s answer.... thanks!

Minneapolis Web Design <-- where i work
MODx Templates <-- new project im working on

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antirem Reply #4, 17 years, 10 months ago

How do i make something so that...

if id = 1 
  then ="{{most_recent}}" 
  else ="[~id~]"

Since tommorow.. the most_recent id will change and if someone goes to this older page it will post to the newest page wrongly?

Minneapolis Web Design <-- where i work
MODx Templates <-- new project im working on

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antirem Reply #5, 17 years, 10 months ago

PHx to the rescue....

[!Jot? &cssFile=`jot.css`&captcha=`1` &customfields=`name,email` &subscribe=`1` &docid=`[+phx:if=`[*id*]`:is=`1`:then=`{{most_recent}}`:else=`[*id*]`+]` &pagination=`50` &tplComments=`jot_tpl` &badwords=`dotNet` &canmoderate=`admin` !]

Minneapolis Web Design <-- where i work
MODx Templates <-- new project im working on