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PHx and UltimateParent question

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    sinbad Reply #1, 15 years, 6 months ago
    I have this structure on my site
    products(10)
 >>>Men(12)
   >>Sub category(13)
   >>>Sample item (27)
   >>Sub category(14)
 >>>Women
   >>Sub category(16)
   >>Sub category(17)


    and I want display a chunk depending on which category user is on.
    I tried this hoping it’ll return my subcategory doc id 13 but I get the no go smiley
    [+phx:if=`[!UltimateParent &top=`12`!]`:is=`13`:then=`Yes Go!`:else=`No Go!`+]


    anyone see whats wrong?

    btw, is there a simpler way to do that like [+phx:if=`[*id*]parent`:is=`13`:then:=`blah...`]?
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      Bruno17 Reply #2, 15 years, 6 months ago
      you can try this:
      [*parent:is=`13`:then=`Yes Go!`:else=`No Go!`*]
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        dev_cw Reply #3, 15 years, 6 months ago
        I think that your UP call would work if it was like this:
        [!UltimateParent &topLevel=`2`!]


        This will return the ID of the document 2 levels deep from the root, but you need to be below it for it to work, otherwise UP fails.
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          sinbad Reply #4, 15 years, 6 months ago
          Quote from: Bruno17 at Oct 26, 2008, 05:14 AM

          you can try this:
          [*parent:is=`13`:then=`Yes Go!`:else=`No Go!`*]

          Thanks that work perfect. this is awesome, just what I needed. great modx laugh

          Quote from: dev_cw at Oct 26, 2008, 12:34 PM

          I think that your UP call would work if it was like this:
          [!UltimateParent &topLevel=`2`!]

          This will return the ID of the document 2 levels deep from the root, but you need to be below it for it to work, otherwise UP fails.

          I couldn’t get it to work for some reason. Anyhow the direct parent:is way seems more suitable for what I need it.

          Thank you both, really appreciate it.

          phx make life so much easier for the coder wannabe smiley
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            sinbad Reply #5, 15 years, 5 months ago
            how about elseif and OR is there a way to do it with phx?
            ie something like this:

            [+phx:if=`[*product-sizes-shirts-xs*]`:ne=``:then=`Yes Go!`:
elseif:`[*product-sizes-shirts-sm*]`:ne=``:then=`Yes Go!`:
elseif:`[*product-sizes-shirts-med*]`:ne=``:then=`Yes Go!`:
elseif:`[*product-sizes-shirts-lg*]`:ne=``:then=`Yes Go!`:
else=`No Go!`+]
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              Dimmy Reply #6, 15 years, 4 months ago
              Quote from: sinbad at Oct 31, 2008, 05:54 AM

              how about elseif and OR is there a way to do it with phx?
              ie something like this:

              [+phx:if=`[*product-sizes-shirts-xs*]`:ne=``:then=`Yes Go!`:
elseif:`[*product-sizes-shirts-sm*]`:ne=``:then=`Yes Go!`:
elseif:`[*product-sizes-shirts-med*]`:ne=``:then=`Yes Go!`:
elseif:`[*product-sizes-shirts-lg*]`:ne=``:then=`Yes Go!`:
else=`No Go!`+]


              I am also wondering if this is working in phx
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                Bruno17 Reply #7, 15 years, 4 months ago
                Perhaps in this case you can try it with:
                [+phx:if=`[*product-sizes-shirts-xs*][*product-sizes-shirts-sm*][*product-sizes-shirts-med*][*product-sizes-shirts-lg*]`:is=``:then=`No Go!`:
else=`Yes Go!`+]
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                  bob1000 Reply #8, 15 years, 4 months ago
                  There’s no elseif in PHx but you can nest more PHx tags inside the else. It does make for quite long statements though.
                  [+phx:if=`[*product-sizes-shirts-xs*]`:ne=``:then=`Yes Go!`:
else`[+phx:if=`[*product-sizes-shirts-sm*]`:ne=``:then=`Yes Go!`:
else=`[+phx:if=`[*product-sizes-shirts-med*]`:ne=``:then=`Yes Go!`:else=`No Go!`+]`+]`+]
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                    Dimmy Reply #9, 15 years, 4 months ago
                    in my case I made a small snippet for it:

                    This snippet wil use ultimateparent (for wayfinder in my case) if the page is not below $topId
                    if the document viewed is below the $topId then it will look if the parent of the document is not the same as $topId, if that is the case parent is used for wayfinder (in this case) (menu level 2 is made)
                    if the parent id the same as topId then the current id is used as startId for wayfinder (in this case)

                    <?php
$up = $modx->runSnippet('UltimateParent');
$parent = $modx->documentObject['parent'];
$id = $modx->documentObject['id'];
if(isset($topId)){$tid = $topId;}else{$tid = $up;}

if( $up == $tid AND $parent != $tid){return $parent;}
if( $up == $tid AND $parent == $tid){return $id;}
if( $up != $tid){return $up;}
?>
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