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unique place holder in chunk? [Solved]

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    jonleverrier Reply #1, 14 years, 6 months ago
    Hi there,

    I'm using Spie Feed to pull in a series of RSS feeds, however I don't think my problem is specifically related to the plugin.

    My Spie template/chunk looks like this:

                <div class="feed_item_01 [[+feedClass]]">
            	<div class="wrp_feed">
                    <div class="[[+description]]">
                        <a href="[[+link]]" rel="tooltip" title="[[+title]]"><img src="[[+itemImageThumbnailUrl]]"></a>
                    </div>
                    <p><em>[[+date:ago]]</em></p>
                    <p class="title"><strong><a href="[[+link]]">[[+title]]</a></strong></p>
                </div>
            </div>


    You'll notice at the top of my chunk there is a div called "feed_item_01". Every time the chunk outputs (4 times), I need this number to increase by one.

    For example the divs when outputted 4 times from 1 snippet call would be:

    "feed_item_01" "feed_item_02" "feed_item_03" ""feed_item_04"

    Would appreciate any thoughts.
    [ed. note: jonleverrier last edited this post 14 years, 6 months ago.]
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      Mark Hamstra Reply #2, 14 years, 6 months ago
      Some snippets keep track of what's often known as "idx" in the dev world, a number that's being incremented every time it loops over an item.

      spieFeed doesn't seem to do that (from its docs), so I would suggest filing a feature request for it over at https://github.com/goldsky/spiefeed/issues
        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.

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        jonleverrier Reply #3, 14 years, 6 months ago
        Thanks for the info Mark. Will post a request to spiefeed once I finish my project. I ended up having to tweak my CSS to match the options available me to in spiefeed. Useful to know about idx.

        I haven't used modx for about 3 years, so has been good fun getting familiar with revolution smiley
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          Mark Hamstra Reply #4, 14 years, 6 months ago
          Glad you sorted it out anyway smiley

          And welcome back!
            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.