Can i create a variable input for a TV?

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Ralph Zelf Reply #1, 12 years, 6 months ago
hi all,

Iwant to make a TV (selectbox) that gets populated based on another TV namely 'language'.
so when the user creates a new page and selects the proper template the selectbox only has the right entries based on the language.

My TV 'language' is an @INHERIT and is set by the toplevel folders EN NL and DE.
For my selectbox i now have a @SELECT
```
@SELECT `pagetitle` AS `name`,`id` FROM `[[+PREFIX]]site_content` WHERE `parent` = 120 AND `deleted` = 0
```
Now how can i make the parent ID variable based on the allready present TV language?

tnx
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itWillBeOk Reply #2, 12 years, 6 months ago
hi,

i think in this case you should use @EVAL for your selectbox instead of @SELECT. This way you could use a snippet to populate the selectbox. From within that snippet i think you should have access to the resource and its language TV.

Call it like so:
```
@EVAL return $modx->runSnippet('populateSelectbox');
```
@itWilllBeOK