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how to create a guestbook?

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    myeviltwin Reply #1, 20 years, 3 months ago
    hello,
    i want to add a guestbook to my site, would be great if it worked with modx.

    please do not refer me to the documentation (usercomments), as i have read it a thousand times but I JUST DON’T GET IT!

    isn’t there a thread, file, whatever, describing step by step what i have to do?

    i have created a document with the snippet call. i created the snippets. i created a folder where the comments can be stored in.
    but damn, this thing just does not anything!
    nothing works, neither adding fields nor filling them out.

    that sucks.

    please, anyone help a total newbie!
    thanks!
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      Ryan Thrash Reply #2, 20 years, 3 months ago
      call the snippet uncached:

      [!usercomments!]
        Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
        Follow me on Twitter at @rthrash or catch my occasional unofficial thoughts at thrash.me
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        myeviltwin Reply #3, 20 years, 3 months ago
        aw man,
        you must be joking! >:(

        it does not work, i already wrote that i read the documentary and i DID include the tag.
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          myeviltwin Reply #4, 20 years, 3 months ago
          that is my tag:

          [[UserComments? &formtpl='guestbookformtpl' &displaytpl='guestbookdisplaytpl' ]]


          but it DOES NOT fetch the right chunks which i have crreated. the names are okay too.
          what is wrong?!
          i dont understand it sad
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            myeviltwin Reply #5, 20 years, 3 months ago
            DANG!

            it’s ` instead of ’ !

            jesus, this took me hours to find out now sad

            i see, girls have no talents with computers sad
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              davidm Reply #6, 20 years, 3 months ago
              I don’t think this has to do with gender... Backticks (i.e ` ) are not so common, I made the same mistake sometimes at first... you’ll sure remember it !
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                myeviltwin Reply #7, 20 years, 3 months ago
                maybe some poor guy will be as stupid as me,
                so i write the steps down so anyone can follow them.


                1. in manager: create a folder named "Guestbook". Use "UserComments" as Snippet. no caching.
                this is my function call:

                [[UserComments? &formtpl=`guestbookformtpl` &displaytpl=`guestbookdisplaytpl` &dateformat=`%d.%m.%Y um %H:%M Uhr`]]


                NOTE THE BACKTICKS!


                2. create two chuncks, one is called "guestbookformtpl" and one "guestbookdisplaytpl".

                my formtemplate:
                <form method="post" action="[~[*id*]~]">
   <input name="[+tagname+]" type="hidden" value="on" />

Name:<br /><input name="name" type="text" size="40" value="" /><br />

Email:<br /><input name="email" type="text" size="30" /><br />


Website:<br /><input name="website" type="text" size="40" value="http://" /><br />

Kommentar:<br /><textarea name="comment" cols="50" rows="8"></textarea><br />

<input name="send" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>


                my displaytemplate:

                [+UID:[+uid+]+]<div[+postclass+]>
<div[+titleclass+]>
Von <strong><a href="mailto:[+email+]">[+name+]</a></strong>, am [+createdon+]<br/>
Website: <a href="[+website+]" target="_blank">[+website+]</a> <br/>
</div>
<div class="content">
[+comment+]
</div>
</div><br/>


                now customize!
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                  davidm Reply #8, 20 years, 3 months ago
                  Nice of you to make this small tutorial, really appreciated that’s great for the community grin
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                    MODx est l&#39;outil id
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                    indx Reply #9, 20 years, 3 months ago
                    Oh my sister...don’t give up. I happen to be very computer geeky (I write modules for phpbb) and STILL miss the little stuff!

                    Estrogen POWER!

                    ;)