Front-end creation of content

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sottwell Reply #11, 13 years, 10 months ago

Articles and its children are quite different than ordinary resources. Among other things, they are given extra fields in the site_content table. It is very complicated to try to meddle with it in any way.

If you examine the code in core/components/articles/model/articles/article.class.php you will see that it uses a few classes that extend the usual MODx classes. For example, around line 28 you will find

class Article extends modResource {
...
...
        $this->set('class_key','Article');
        $this->set('show_in_tree',false);
        $this->set('richtext',true);
        $this->set('searchable',true);
...

Then again around line 441 you can see that it extends modResourceCreateProcessor

class ArticleCreateProcessor extends modResourceCreateProcessor {
...
...
        $this->setProperty('searchable',true);
        $this->setProperty('richtext',true);
        $this->setProperty('isfolder',false);
        $this->setProperty('cacheable',true);
        $this->setProperty('clearCache',true);
        $this->setProperty('class_key','Article');

Likewise it extends modResourceUpdateProcessor around line 578.

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bigmuffzakk Reply #12, 11 years, 4 months ago

Quote from: BobRay at Mar 15, 2012, 03:29 PM

Thanks for the kind words.

Creating a new resource in MODX Revolution is pretty simple. You just ask for a new object, set the fields, and save it. The code below, with no modifications, will create a new resource. In fact, you don't need the setContent() call. The only required fields are the pagetitle and alias.
newObject('modResource');

$newResource->set('pagetitle', 'New Page');
$newResource->set('alias', 'newpage')
// etc.

$newResource->setContent('<p>Some Content</p>');

$newResource->save();
You can also set the fields and call the resource/create processor. That's a more reliable way to do it but the code is a little more complex.

Your project sounds pretty challenging, but creating the resources won't be the hard part.

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Very useful! My question is how can i add the resource as a child of another resource?

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Bruno17 Reply #13, 11 years, 4 months ago

if you know the id of the parent, then

$newResource = $modx->newObject('modResource');
 
$newResource->set('pagetitle', 'New Page');
$newResource->set('alias', 'newpage');
$newResource->set('parent', $parent);
// etc.
 
$newResource->setContent('<p>Some Content</p>');
 
$newResource->save();

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bigmuffzakk Reply #14, 11 years, 4 months ago

Quote from: Bruno17 at Jun 06, 2015, 04:15 PM

if you know the id of the parent, then

$newResource = $modx->newObject('modResource');
 
$newResource->set('pagetitle', 'New Page');
$newResource->set('alias', 'newpage');
$newResource->set('parent', $parent);
// etc.
 
$newResource->setContent('<p>Some Content</p>');
 
$newResource->save();

Thanks a lot Bruno!