MaxiGallery - no "manage photos" button in new gallery

MaxiGallery is a fantastic addition to ModX. I was able to get it running almost exactly as I wanted with multiple photo galleries in about an hour.

I still have one problem that I’m hoping to get some help with.

I’ve set up a web user who can manage (and create new) multiple galleries.

I created a Gallery folder and severl galleries under it. All works as it should and my web user can manage the photos in the gallery.

I made an "Add New Photo Gallery" page that uses NewsPublisher to create a new gallery and uses $PostID to send the user to it. It works like a charm except that the new gallery has no photos in it. As a result, it doesn’t show a "manage photos" button so the web user can’t upload any photos.

Is there any way around this?

Bob

Doh!

Wrong:
[!NewsPublisher? &folder=`25` &canpost=`Photo Admins` &headertpl=’MyPhotoGalleryChunk’!]

Right:
[!NewsPublisher? &folder=`25` &canpost=`Photo Admins` &headertpl=MyPhotoGalleryChunk!]

Using the first version put {{’MyPhotoGalleryChunk’}} in the new gallery document rather then the correct:
{{MyPhotoGalleryChunk}}. It might be a useful modification of the core to make either one work since the first version above is what a lot of people would enter.

BTW, it’s a tribute to the power and flexibility of ModX and the fabulous coders that produced the MaxiGallery and NewsPublisher snippets that I was able to use the unmodified snippets to set up way for a web user to create new photo galleries (complete with publish and unpublish dates) and populate them. It took about 20 minutes and I’m a ModX newbie.

Bob the idiot

Nice, that had me troubled for a while!!!

Yes, always make sure you enclose your values with backticks `...` instead of single-quotes ’...’

You can get away with no enclosing marks most of the time, but it’s better to use the backticks.

Quote from: sottwell at Apr 26, 2007, 11:44 PM

Yes, always make sure you enclose your values with backticks `...` instead of single-quotes ’...’

You can get away with no enclosing marks most of the time, but it’s better to use the backticks.

I hesitate to disagree with the guru, but I discovered that the call wouldn’t work unless I LEFT OUT the backticks.

Bob

I’m no guru. If it works that way, then that’s the way it has to be done. And I’m certainly no MaxiGallery guru!

I’ve got to get more sleep before I post

Looking back at my second post in this thread, I realized that you were absolutely right. My code didn’t work because I used single quotes instead of backticks.

My fix worked because the chunk name had no spaces in it. If it had spaces, I would have been forced to do things correctly, with backticks.

Bob the total idiot

When I have a minute, I’ll correct the original post and try to delete the confusing followups.