Chunks and TV...

Hello there !

I had tested Modx looooong time ago... And lately, I've been asked to update an HTML site to a new design a little bit more... modern... So all I'm doing right now is starting from scratch that new website.

I have already designed websites in the past, but it's a first for me to use modx .

And I guess I'm still confused with chunks and TVs... I thought I had it right, but... nope... Still having some issues with it...

So if I understood correctly, chunks are basically the equivalents of php includes. While TV allows the placement of multiple content into one page.

So far, no problem... I thought I had it. Now, if I want to use a part of a TV somewhere else on the website, that means I had a logic flaw and it should be turned into a chunk ?

Are TV like simply saying "Ok, here you have something you want to write inside this box, type it here ?" while chunks are more "once typed, multiple use ?"

If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me

Thanks for your help !

A chunk is just a piece of HTML code with a name, say "myChunk". You can insert its content via the tag [[$myChunk]] where ever you want it to appear in a template or in the content of a resource, also several times on the same page.
What makes chunks really useful: They may contain in their HTML code also other MODX tags like a snippet call [[!mySnippet]], and so on...

A TV is assigned to a template (hence its name). The back end editor can set its value on a per page basis, and this value is evoked in the template via the tag [[*myTV]].
You can use this tag several times on a page, but always with the same output. For example, you can not put different images on a page using the same image TV. But there are plugins for such elements you want for multiple use on the same page.

Okies

Many thanks ! This confirmed I finally had it right

Thanks for helping

But don't use PHP in your chunks, use snippets for PHP and call the snippet in the chunk.