Need a snippet

I want to display the current parent document page title on all of the child documents of a parent in my template.

For example, if I have a primary navigation of "Home, Company, Products, Contact", and for the "Company" parent document, I have child documents of "About Us", "Our History", "Our Locations". Laid out, it would be:

Home
Company
> About Us
> Our History
> Our Locations
Products
Contact

I want to place in my template a snippet call to include the name "Company" on each of the pages "About Us", "Our History", and "Our Locations." When you were on Products (or Products Children) it would say "Products". Same with Contact, it would say "Contact". If there were children documents of the children documents it would still say the parent page title name in the snippet.

Is there is a snippet that would do this? If so, what is the snippet name and how do I call it in the template?

DropMenu is really what it looks like in your layout above.

Hi ddmobley, it’s possible with a slightly modified version of sottwell’s UltimateParent snippet... copy and paste the following code into a new snippet:



To call the snippet in the template, assuming you have called the snippet ultimateParentTitle, you can use: [[ultimateParentTitle]]

Hope that helps,

Garry

Maybe one of the page trail or breadcrumb snippets would also be useful?

Quote from: garryn at Jun 12, 2006, 04:51 AM

Hi ddmobley, it’s possible with a slightly modified version of sottwell’s UltimateParent snippet... copy and paste the following code into a new snippet:

//-- Modified version of sottwell's UltimateParent snippet
//-- Outputs pagetitle of the Ultimate Parent doc

$id = $modx->documentIdentifier;
$pid = $modx->getParent($id,1,"id,pagetitle");
if($pid['id'] == 0) { return $id; }
while ($pid['id'] != 0) {
    $id = $pid['id'];
    $pagetitle = $pid['pagetitle'];
    $pid = $modx->getParent($id,1,"id,pagetitle");
}
return $pagetitle;

To call the snippet in the template, assuming you have called the snippet ultimateParentTitle, you can use: [[ultimateParentTitle]]

Hope that helps,

Garry

Garry, I used the snippet verbatim and it returns a number which I assume is the document ID. Perhaps it isn’t configured quite right?

Try this:

Yes, Susan, that worked quite nicely. Thank you!

Original question/problem solved. If you have more questions please start a new thread.

regards,

zi