Easy way to set a template var from a snippet/plugin?

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evan Reply #1, 19 years, 5 months ago

Is there a setTemplateVariable() function somewhere I’m not finding or do I just have to do the insert on the database manually?
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opengeek Reply #2, 19 years, 5 months ago
0.9.7 will introduce a complete, object-oriented API for working with all MODx content and data without resorting to SQL. For instance:
```
<?php
$content= 'My new TV value...';
$tv= $modx->getObject('modTemplateVar', array ('name' => 'extra-content'));
$tv->setValue(12, $content);
?>
```
... would set the value of a TV named extra-content to the value of $content for the document with id = 12.

Until then, it’s fairly easy to abstract the logic of doing this into a function or class you can include and make use of in a snippet. Then you can simply replace the calls to that function or the implementation of that function when the new API is available. I believe there are a couple of components in development for 0.9.6 that do exactly this...
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Easy way to *set* a template var from a snippet/plugin?