need help with dynamic titles for a blog

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rrswans Reply #1, 15 years ago

I using Modx 2.1.3-pl and have created traditional website and a blog using this tutorial: http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Creating+a+Blog+in+MODx+Revolution

I have used taglister to create tags to apply to my blog posts and my links are working great.Everything is functional I am just having one problem, getting the proper titles to show up when the user click on tags.

For example:
When a user clicks on a tag they are brought to a resource that dynamically populates itself with all posts that have tags. For example if I click on a tag called "learn" I am brought to a page that shows all blog posts tagged with "learn." I need it to say the word "learn" at the top of this page so the user knows where they are and what they clicked on. I can't put it in as a page title or description because the same resource is used as the landing page for all tag queries. This is a pretty standard thing on wordpress and am stumped that I can not find the answer on modx. To give you more information about my site:

This is what the url looks like after I click on a tag called "learn":

/tag-and-archive-page/?tag=learn&key=tags

this is the taglister call that requests the tag-and-archive-page as the target:

[[!tolinks? &items=`[[*tags]]` &key=`tag` &target=`81`]]

This is the template for the target:

[[$head]]

<body id="subLevel">
[[*backgroundImage]]
	<div id="pageWrapper">
		[[$newMenu]]
	<div id="contentWrapper">
	<div id="mainSection" style="background-image:url('[[*orangeObject]]');">
	  <a href="[[$siteName]][[UltimateParent]]"><h1>[[getResourceField? &id=`[[UltimateParent]]` &field=`pagetitle` ]]</h1></a>
	<div id="leftNavigation">[[$blogMainMenu]]




        </div>
	<div id="rightSideBlog">
	  <h2>[[!getResourcesTag? $tagKey=`tag` &tagRequestParam=`tag`]]

</h2>

                <div id="mainContent">
                    [[*content]]
        </div>
	</div>
	</div>
	  [[$r.footer]]
	</div>
	</div>

	<script type="text/javascript">
        var DISModifyPost = $(function() {
            DIS.config.attachments_max_per_post = 5;
            DIS.DISModifyPost.init({
                attachments: 1
            });
        });</script>
</body>
</html>

and this is added into the content area of the target resource (81, tag-and-archive-page)

[[!getResourcesTag? &parents=`71,72,73` $tagKey=`tag` &tagRequestParam=`tag`]]

[[!getResourcesTag? &elementClass=`modSnippet` &element=`getResources` &tpl=`blogPost` &parents=`71,72,73` &limit=`36` &includeContent=`0` &includeTVs=`32` &processTVs=`32` &tvPrefix=`` &showHidden=`0` &hideContainers=`1` &cache=`0` &pageVarKey=`page` ]]

 

[[!+page.nav:notempty=`

[[!+page.nav]]
`]]

I've posted this several other times with no response and have spent a good deal of time researching this. Any help is greatly appreciated

This question has been answered by charless. See the first response.

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CharlesMx Reply #2, 15 years ago

You could create a very simple snippet that would simply output the tag value when the key/value pair for tags is present in the query string.

Vary basic snippet (ex snippet name: dyntagtitle):

//-- Get all request string key/value pairs
$s = $_REQUEST;



if($s['key'] == 'tags'){
  return $s['tag'];
} else {
 return false;
}

Then on the page template simply put the snippet call where you want it to be displayed:

[[!dyntagtitle]]

cheers

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rrswans Reply #3, 15 years ago

Charles, I can't thank you enough for this answer. This works perfectly! I'm going to copy and paste it to some other posts I put up because I know some other folks were looking for it too!

THANK YOU!!!

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CharlesMx Reply #4, 15 years ago

no problem, glad to help out

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jonleverrier Reply #5, 14 years, 6 months ago

Just to let you know that the dyntagtitle snippet no longer works in the latest version of Revolution. Damit!

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Mark Hamstra Reply #6, 14 years, 6 months ago

There's nothing in there that even remotely uses the Revo API that *could* break after an update..?

That said, I tend to use a slightly different approach which prevents E_NOTICE errors if your server is configured to show them:

$param = $modx->getOption('param', $scriptProperties);
if (!empty($param)) {
  if (isset($_REQUEST[$param])) {
     return $_REQUEST[$param];
  }
}
return;

use as:

[[!nameOfSnippet? &param=`tag`]]

Can't hurt to throw in some (real simple) sanitation either as we're dealing with user generated content:

[[!nameOfSnippet:htmlentities? &param=`tag`]]

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jonleverrier Reply #7, 14 years, 6 months ago

Thanks for the post Mark. Will try and test and report back. After hours of searching through the forums i've started to spot a few other solutions, such as:

https://forums.modx.com/thread/72278/taglister-how-to-display-the-selected-tag#dis-post-402264

Does not look quite as graceful as your solution but it did the trick!

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Mark Hamstra Reply #8, 14 years, 6 months ago

In the end all those solutions do the same. Mine may be overcomplicated, lol. And the first line is a bit obsolete, as any properties passed will already be set to a normal variable, so line 2 could just be isset($param) && !empty($param) for the same effect.

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.

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