Dynamic Template-Dependant Default Media Source?

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Ben Morrison Reply #1, 12 years, 8 months ago

Has anyone created a way to have the default media source change depending on the template of the document being edited? So for instance: An Articles blog post's content area would take on one directory as the media source while a static content page takes on another? Example:

Blog Post Template: assets/content/posts/
or
Static Content Template: assets/content/pages/

I know there is a way to dynamically generate resource dependent media sources from the MIGX tutorial on the Multi-File Uploader (doesn't seem to work anymore for me though), but I have no idea how to do the same based on a resource's template. It would be even better if it combined the functions of both, so not only would the base path change but it would create a folder for just that individual resource. Example:

Blog Post Template: assets/content/posts/{id}/
or
Static Content Template: assets/content/pages/{id}/

This way I could assign the same media source to the template variables AND as the default and have the TV's and content area draw their media from the same place for each. Really, this would save me tons of time training my family in using the company website...

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sottwell Reply #2, 12 years, 8 months ago

You can use MODX tags in the media source path and URL, so I would think something like

/assets/images/[[*template]]/

would do the trick.

As far as automatically generating the directory, I would think a plugin using OnTemplateFormSave (or whatever that one is actually called) would do the job; check if /assets/images/templateID/ exists and is writable, and create it if not.

Be careful with Static Resources, while you can use a Media Source to access the file manager and upload/select a file, the resource itself doesn't recognize media sources, so all you'll get in the path is the part within the media source path.

I work around this by using a chunk with the Media Source path, and prepend this to the Static Resource's path. You can do this with another plugin if you don't want your users to have to remember to prepend the chunk.

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Bruno17 Reply #3, 12 years, 8 months ago

The magic happens within this snippet:
https://github.com/Bruno17/MIGX/blob/master/core/components/migx/elements/snippets/migxresourcemediapath.snippet.php

I think, you need just to add one line, or another logic, which switches between pages and posts:

$path = str_replace('{template}', $resource->get('template'), $path);

and use it like that:

[[migxResourceMediaPath? &pathTpl=`assets/content/{template}/{id}/`]]

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Ben Morrison Reply #4, 12 years, 8 months ago

That bit of php would return the template number correct? How would I return the name of the template rather than the number?

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Ben Morrison Reply #5, 12 years, 8 months ago

Ok so I found this little bit of code from another post, but I don't know php and how to modify it for use in this context:

<?php

$templateName = $modx->db->getValue( $modx->db->select( 'templatename', $modx->getFullTableName('site_templates'), 'id='.$modx->documentObject['template'] ));

?>

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Bruno17 Reply #6, 12 years, 8 months ago

This is code for EVO

you can try:

if ($template = $resource->getOne('Template'){
    $path = str_replace('{templatename}', $template->get('templatename'), $path);
}

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Ben Morrison Reply #7, 12 years, 8 months ago

I tried this but when I tried to use the media source the I get "The specified directory is not a directory..." it seems {templatename} is not being replaced at all.

    if (strstr($path, '{breadcrumb}')) {
        $breadcrumbpath = '';
        for ($i = 1; $i <= $breadcrumbdepth; $i++) {
            $breadcrumbpath .= $parentids[$i] . '/';
        }
        $path = str_replace('{breadcrumb}', $breadcrumbpath, $path);

    } else {
        $path = str_replace('{id}', $docid, $path);
        $path = str_replace('{pagetitle}', $resource->get('pagetitle'), $path);
        $path = str_replace('{alias}', $resource->get('alias'), $path);
	$path = str_replace('{templatename}', $template->get('templatename'), $path);
        $path = str_replace('{parent}', $resource->get('parent'), $path);
        $path = str_replace('{ultimateparent}', $ultimateParent, $path);
    }

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Bruno17 Reply #8, 12 years, 8 months ago

you didn't get the template-object with:

if ($template = $resource->getOne('Template'){
    $path = str_replace('{templatename}', $template->get('templatename'), $path);
}

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Ben Morrison Reply #9, 12 years, 8 months ago

I tried with and without sad

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Ben Morrison Reply #10, 12 years, 8 months ago

    } else {
        $path = str_replace('{id}', $docid, $path);
        $path = str_replace('{pagetitle}', $resource->get('pagetitle'), $path);
        $path = str_replace('{alias}', $resource->get('alias'), $path);
		if ($template = $resource->getOne('Template'){
		$path = str_replace('{templatename}', $template->get('templatename'), $path);
		}
        $path = str_replace('{parent}', $resource->get('parent'), $path);
        $path = str_replace('{ultimateparent}', $ultimateParent, $path);
    }

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