Autocreate Resource every day

Hi

My problem: Everyday at a certain time, I have to create a resource in modx (let's call it a news page).

Is there a way to tell modx to automatically create this resource for me so I don't have to go into the manager, duplicate existing resource, adjust title and save it?

Thanks

can't u use publish date?

Can you describe what the page content is? Whats the purpose of this new document? This can be done with a plugin provided you have regular site traffic. Otherwise you're going to need to use a cron job and fire a plugin via the api.

@fourroses666 I can use publish date to put the resource online at a certain time but I still have to create the source manually and because that would be a everyday task not only for one document, I'am trying to automate this.

@Jay Gilmore: The page content is just a iframe with a videofile and some text that describes the video. I also thought about a cron job but I don't know what php code to fire. Do you know if there is already a plugin for this kind of task?

Cron job using Curl or whatever to call a published page hidden from menus would be the simplest and most reliable, I would assume.

How does the video file and text get to the server?
Perhaps this process can create a resource with the content at the same time with a publish date if needed.

Is it the same URL each time? If so, a snippet or plugin could check the editedon field against today's date and regenerate the page content if they don't match.


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@W.Shwawn Wilkerson: I also thought about a cron job but what I can't get is how to create or duplicate a resource. But as Jay Gilmore wrote, a plugin might be the solution.

@whistlemaker: The Video file lies on an other server and the text gets to the server via a form that the user fills out. The form data goes into a custom db.

@Bobray: I'm not shure if I understand you correctly. What URL do you mean?

My resource tree looks like this: home->shows->news. Inside news folder a resource should be generated each day (120101_news, 120102_news, 120103_news...)

But what I don't get is how to thell a snippet or a plugin that it should create or duplicate a existing resource.

Seems to me that the 'user' filling out the form that sends the text data to the custom db could also trigger some code duplicating the resource.

As to the code needed maybe these links will help:
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Using+runProcessor

and
http://api.modx.com/revolution/2.2/db_core_model_modx_processors_resource_duplicate.class.html

I meant are you regenerating the same page each time or is it a new page. If it's the same page, you could use the method I described.


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