Is it possible...

I am working a site where I’d like to pass data from the URL.
TV’s are great, but I dont want to have to create a page for every scenario -
Is it possible to write a TV that can take the parameter of a Friendly URL?
My example calls for looking movie titles by beginning letter.
I have the alphabet laid out, clicking a letter will display all movies with the letter a.

I’d like the URL to look like ’/letters/a’ and the a is passed to letters, which the TV can deal with to lookup.

How can I set this up?
Thanks
Rich

if I understand you correctly you want to filter out pre-created documents using a "query string"...

You can create a single page to handle all the list logic and use the Ditto snippet to filter your results.

But how do I setup modx to know letters/a is not another file to lookup
but really a parameter:

letters?letter=a
then I can look up in a table all titles that begin with a.
that should look like a directory
letters/a

Rich

Hi,

you can add a where clause in ditto call.
&where=`sc.pagetitle LIKE ’%a’`

you could write a little snippet to retrieve the $_GET param and then
&where=`[[getLetterParam]]`

:-)

I follow you on those pieces - I guess I am stumped how to make modx see an on-the-fly directory path as a GET parameter.

great solution helio.


You could just create a snippet to parse your url string and get your letter there. I realize this isn’t as simple as a REQUEST var but if SEO for this site merits this kind of thing it’s a pretty simple solution.

Quote from: sandman at Feb 17, 2007, 02:22 PM

I follow you on those pieces - I guess I am stumped how to make modx see an on-the-fly directory path as a GET parameter.

This would require custom rewrite rules to convert whatever parameter you wanted to a path...

I guess it is possible
you have to use the query string functions to get your job done.
The simplest of a think you can make over it.

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Amitav Roy
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This would require custom rewrite rules to convert whatever parameter you wanted to a path...

@Open Geek
Would this still pass $_GET[’letter’] to the document or abandon the query string on rewrite?

Quote from: OpenGeek at Feb 17, 2007, 02:40 PM

Quote from: sandman at Feb 17, 2007, 02:22 PM

I follow you on those pieces - I guess I am stumped how to make modx see an on-the-fly directory path as a GET parameter.

This would require custom rewrite rules to convert whatever parameter you wanted to a path...

How would I customize:

to


I tried to edit the .htaccess already and it messed up how everything was loading - including the manager.
Any help here would greaylt be appreciated.