Changing Content based on URI

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andrewbgsm Reply #1, 15 years, 2 months ago

Hi,

I am new to MODX and PHP and I am trying to get a phone number to change based on the page a user loads (local vs. national; defaulting to national when not specified).

I've created a snippet and placed in this code:

<?php
$homepage = "/";
$ohio = "/states/oh";
$illinois = "/states/il";
$michigan = "/states/mi";
$currentpage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

	if ($ohio == $currentpage)  {
	  echo "555-555-5555";
	} elseif ($homepage == $currentpage) {
	  echo "1 (800) 555-5555";
	} elseif ($illinois == $currentpage) {
	  echo "555-555-5555";
	} elseif ($michigan == $currentpage) {
	  echo "555-555-5555";  
	};

I've gone through a few iterations and I cannot seem to get it to work. All I get is the national number on every page.

Any help would be appreciated.

Home page url: www.example.com
state page example: www.example.com/states/oh

Thanks

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opengeek Reply #2, 15 years, 2 months ago

How are you calling the Snippet? It must be uncached to return different results. Also, REQUEST_URI is not portable; consider developing in a subdirectory. Instead, you might try this without including the initial slash:

<?php
$homepage = "";
$ohio = "states/oh";
$illinois = "states/il";
$michigan = "states/mi";
$currentPage = $_REQUEST[$modx->getOption('request_param_alias')];

However, consider this is not cacheable and there might be more efficient ways to accomplish this. One thing that comes to mind is having a TemplateVar with the state initial which is simply fed to the Snippet call, e.g.

[[GetPhone? &state=`[[*state]]`]]

Then your code would be cacheable on each Resource and would not be dependent on the URI's.

<?php
$output = "";
$state = empty($state) ? "" : $state;
switch ($state) {
    case 'oh':
            $output = "555-555-5555";
            break;
    case 'il':
            $output = "555-555-5556";
            break;
    case 'mi':
            $output = "555-555-5557";
            break;
    default:
        if ($modx->resource->get('id') == $modx->getOption('site_start')) {
            $output = "1 (800) 555-5555";
        }
        break;
}
return $output;

[ed. note: opengeek last edited this post 15 years, 2 months ago.]

Jason Coward
Chief Architect @ MODX
http://www.jasoncoward.com | http://twitter.com/drumshaman | https://github.com/opengeek

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Lucas Reply #3, 15 years, 2 months ago

It looks like you could even do that without needing the tv, seeing as your alias seems to contain the state code already (oh, il, mi, etc):

[[GetPhone? &state=`[[*alias]]`]]

And... (sorry Jason!) there's a small typo in the switch above, should be:

switch ($state) {
 ... instead of ...
switch ($currentpage) {

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opengeek Reply #4, 15 years, 2 months ago

Fixed the typo, thanks...

Jason Coward
Chief Architect @ MODX
http://www.jasoncoward.com | http://twitter.com/drumshaman | https://github.com/opengeek

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andrewbgsm Reply #5, 15 years, 2 months ago

Thanks for responding!, I will take a look and let you know how I do with it.

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andrewbgsm Reply #6, 15 years, 2 months ago

Thanks guys, got a chance to test it -- works beautifully.

Using, [[GetPhone? &state=`[[*alias]]`]]