Retrieve ID of a modSymLink

Hi all,

When viewing a resource of type modSymLink, the [[*id]] returns the ID of the original resource (as you would expect).

Is it possible to retrieve the ID of the modSymLink itself?

Thanks!

Quote from: sushi at Sep 22, 2010, 02:11 PM

When viewing a resource of type modSymLink, the [[*id]] returns the ID of the original resource (as you would expect).

Is it possible to retrieve the ID of the modSymLink itself?

At the current time there is not a way to do this (that I can think of). I would love to hear ideas on how to achieve this before implementing a specific approach. Would you care to enter a ticket for this and maybe we can get some proposals and find the best way to accomplish this in a future release.

Issue created: http://bugs.modx.com/browse/MODX-2355

(I hope I did that right!)

The method I am using is a snippet called "getSymlinkId"

the code is below

$id= $modx->resource->get(’id’);

$c = $modx->newQuery(’modResource’);
$c->select(’content’);
$c->where(array(’id’=>$id));
$c->prepare();
$c->stmt->execute();
$symlinkId = $c->stmt->fetchColumn();
$c->stmt->closeCursor();

if(is_numeric($symlinkId) && !empty($symlinkId))
{
return intval($symlinkId);
}

This may help, I think it still needs a bit of work, but it does return the symlink Id

For those looking for another way to get to the ID of a SymLink itself, I wrote a snippet that does it. This will have been a problem for almost no-one since version 2.0.5-pl when SymLinks were changed to 'overlay' their details on the Target. I found myself in a specific situation though.

I wanted to set the System Setting 'symlink_merge_fields' to 'No' because it made everything a lot simpler in terms of guaranteeing nothing was overwritten with content drawn from the SymLink. I could list all the exceptions (being every single field in a TV rich template), but then if I ever added another field and forgot to add it to that list, strange behaviour may start to creep in.

I wanted the SymLink be IDENTICAL to the Target with the only difference being a correct bread crumb based on the location of the SymLink or Target in the structure. Hence I needed the SymLink ID to bait the BreadCrumb extra properly.

Big thanks to opengeek who supplied the building blocks of this snippet code in a few different places in the forums. The following placed into a snippet will correctly return the ID of the current resource if you have Friendly URLs switched on.



If you're not using friendly URLs, try switching $_GET[$modx->getOption('request_param_alias')] for $_GET['q'] (untested but may work based on comments I've seen).

MODX - so many ways to achieve any given thing. Love it! [ed. note: jcdm last edited this post 10 years, 8 months ago.]

It would be when friendly urls are not being used.