What's wrong with my snippet?

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sickboy Reply #1, 19 years, 1 month ago

Hi folks, it’s my first post here so if it’s in the wrong place please feel free to flame

I’m having a problem with a snippet i’ve written which returns the parent page title or the current page title using the isfolder variable. The code is written as follows...

<?php
$docId = $modx->documentIdentifier;
if ($isFolder == 0) {
	$parent = $modx->getParent($docId, 1, 'pagetitle');	
 	return $parent['pagetitle'];
 	exit;
}
if ($isFolder == 1) {
 	$parent = $modx->getPageInfo($docId, 1, 'pagetitle');
 	return $parent['pagetitle'];
        exit;
}
?>

I’m calling the snippet as follows...

[[parentTitle?&isFolder=`[*isfolder*]`]]

The above works fine in a page template but falls over when used in a chunk, returning the pagetitle if the page is a page and returning nothing if the page is a folder huh

Can anyone tell me what i’m doing wrong? I’d like to be able to use the code in the chunk as it’s used on every page except my homepage and if i feel like redesigning my site it would make it much easier to update just the chunk instead of a few templates.

Cheers

[Edit]
Sorry, forgot to mention my setup!

Modx Version: 0.9.6
Server: Apache 2.0.54
PHP Version: 5.23.
Not sure of the mysql version, sorry.

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nightsignals Reply #2, 19 years, 1 month ago

Hi - It doesn’t look like you’re doing something wrong. Did you clear the site cache? Sometimes this helps.

René

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dev_cw Reply #3, 19 years, 1 month ago

And also you may want to call the snippet uncached [! !] rather than [[ ]]

[!parentTitle?&isFolder=`[*isfolder*]`!]

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Jay Gilmore Reply #4, 19 years, 1 month ago

I have read that sometimes there can be problems when there is no space in the call between the ? and the first &. I haven’t experienced it but it may be a factor. But as dev_cw said making it uncacheable often helps. (One day I’ll figure out the whole cache relationship thing in MODx with snippet calls).

ATB,

Jay

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sickboy Reply #5, 19 years, 1 month ago

Thanks everyone. The caching was the problem, using your method dev_cw fixed it.

Cheers.

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dev_cw Reply #6, 19 years, 1 month ago

Good to hear you got it working. Nice simple snippet, just a few lines of code and you are able to get the results you want. MODx rocks.

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Dimmy Reply #7, 19 years, 1 month ago

Nice work but could be smaler especialy if the isfolder option is always used.

<?php
$docId = $modx->documentIdentifier;
$isFolder = $modx->documentObject['isfolder'];

if ($isFolder == 0) {
	$parent = $modx->getParent($docId, 1, 'pagetitle');	
 	return $parent['pagetitle'];
}else{
    return 	$modx->documentObject['pagetitle'];
}
?>

now no parameter is needed just place the snippet
greets Dimmy

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