RELATED PAGES TV DISPLAY IMAGES???

140 Posts

pjldesign Reply #1, 14 years, 6 months ago

used this tut (http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Creating+a+multi-select+box+for+related+pages+in+your+template) to create a checkbox tv in a resource that should allow client to select what resources to display on the page. However, two problems... it's working but with limitations that i desperately need to resolve: 1. in TV Input Option Values, how do i get the

@EVAL return $modx->runSnippet('getResources',array('parent' => 18));

to output more than one parent's resources in the resource where the TV appears (need client to choose from a list of resources that have different parents)? 2. (thread topic) how do i get the snippet call:

[[relatedPages? &input=`[[*relatedPages]]` &tpl=`relatedPagesTpl`]]

to display the image TVs from the aggregated resources? Thanks so much for any assistance. Deadline's coming like a comet.

☆ A M B ☆
3,141 Posts

Mark Hamstra Reply #2, 14 years, 5 months ago

1: This should work (though untested..!)

@EVAL return $modx->runSnippet('getResources',array('parent:IN' => array(18,15,13)));

2: You'll need to modify the snippet to also include TV values.

Something like this should work when using 2.1+ to retrieve the values and make them accessible with [[+tvname]] (but again.. untested).

if (empty($input)) { return 'This article is so unique, that we couldn\'t find anything related to it!'; }
$tpl = $modx->getOption('tpl',$scriptProperties,'relatedPagesTpl');
if ($modx->getChunk($tpl) == '') { return 'We found some related pages, but don\'t know how to present it.'; }
$ids = explode(',', $input);
$output = array();
foreach ($ids as $key => $value) {
  $resource = $modx->getObject('modResource',array(
    'published' => 1,
    'id' => $value));
  if ($resource instanceof modResource) {
    $ta = $resource->toArray();
    $ta = array_merge($ta,$resource->getTemplateVars());
    $output[] = $modx->getChunk($tpl,$ta);
  }
}
return implode('',$output);

Mark Hamstra • Developer spending his days working on Premium Extras and a MODX Site Dashboard with the ability to remotely upgrade MODX and extras to make the MODX world a little better.

Tweet me @mark_hamstra, check my infrequent blog at markhamstra.com, my slightly more frequent ramblings at MODX.today or see code at Github.

11 Posts

zorba2011 Reply #3, 14 years, 2 months ago

Thanks Mark for your suggestions, which I have tried. Unfortunately, the final output to the page doesn't show the Template Variables from the related resources sad

I'm using Revo v2.1.3-pl.

Any assistance would be very much appreciated.
Thanks.
Theo.

☆ A M B ☆
3,141 Posts

Mark Hamstra Reply #4, 14 years, 2 months ago

You can also give the getRelated snippet a shot, which has support for TVs now and doesn't require you to select pages manually.

Can you show how you're calling the snippet in the template?

Mark Hamstra • Developer spending his days working on Premium Extras and a MODX Site Dashboard with the ability to remotely upgrade MODX and extras to make the MODX world a little better.

Tweet me @mark_hamstra, check my infrequent blog at markhamstra.com, my slightly more frequent ramblings at MODX.today or see code at Github.

11 Posts

zorba2011 Reply #5, 14 years, 2 months ago

Good call, was considering that but wanted to remain faithful to your article

Sure, like this:
[[relatedPages? &input=`[[*relatedPages]]` &tpl=`panelTpl`]]

11 Posts

zorba2011 Reply #6, 14 years, 2 months ago

Sorry, posting the code here stripped out some of it, here it is again:

[[relatedPages? &input=`[[*relatedPages]]` &tpl=`panelTpl`]]

☆ A M B ☆
3,141 Posts

Mark Hamstra Reply #7, 14 years, 2 months ago

Can you show your panelTpl?

I think we'll need to customize the snippet:

if (empty($input)) { return 'This article is so unique, that we couldn\'t find anything related to it!'; }
$tpl = $modx->getOption('tpl',$scriptProperties,'relatedPagesTpl');
if ($modx->getChunk($tpl) == '') { return 'We found some related pages, but don\'t know how to present it.'; }
$ids = explode(',', $input);
$output = array();
foreach ($ids as $key => $value) {
  $resource = $modx->getObject('modResource',array(
    'published' => 1,
    'id' => $value));
  if ($resource instanceof modResource) {
    $ta = $resource->toArray();
    $tvs = $resource->getTemplateVars();
    foreach ($tvs as $tv) {
       $ta[$tv->get('name')] = $tv->get('value');
    }
    $output[] = $modx->getChunk($tpl,$ta);
  }
}
return implode('',$output);

Untested

Mark Hamstra • Developer spending his days working on Premium Extras and a MODX Site Dashboard with the ability to remotely upgrade MODX and extras to make the MODX world a little better.

Tweet me @mark_hamstra, check my infrequent blog at markhamstra.com, my slightly more frequent ramblings at MODX.today or see code at Github.

11 Posts

zorba2011 Reply #8, 14 years, 2 months ago

Of course, here's the panelTpl:

<div class="wslpanel">
<div class="wslpaneltitle"><h3>[[+TV Panel Title]]</h3></div>
<div class="wslpanelimage" style="background-image:url(assets/templates/wos/panels/[[+TV Panel Image]]); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-position:top left;)"><img src="assets/templates/wos/images/frame.png" height="176" width="280" alt="[[+longtitle]]" border="0" /></div>
<div class="wslpaneldesc">[[+TV Panel Description]]</div>
</div>

☆ A M B ☆
3,141 Posts

Mark Hamstra Reply #9, 14 years, 2 months ago

With the modified snippet I tried, I think it should work.

Is the name (key) of your TV actually "TV Panel Title"? Not the caption, but the name.

Mark Hamstra • Developer spending his days working on Premium Extras and a MODX Site Dashboard with the ability to remotely upgrade MODX and extras to make the MODX world a little better.

Tweet me @mark_hamstra, check my infrequent blog at markhamstra.com, my slightly more frequent ramblings at MODX.today or see code at Github.

11 Posts

zorba2011 Reply #10, 14 years, 2 months ago

Yep, you're right, I tried your new code and it works! Thank you very much.

But, for some reason the list of check-boxes have disappeared from the resource TV sad

I don't think it's your new code as I put in tje older code and they're still missing. They were definitely working fine earlier and now nothing! Very odd...