Passing an array to a chunk

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livingdeadbeat Reply #1, 12 years, 4 months ago

Hi everyone,

I'm new to modx and was wondering how i can accomplish this:

I have created a php multidimensional array which has a list of months and within those months a list events, it looks like this

Array
(
    [201406] => Array
        (
            [name] => June
            [entries] => Array
                (
                    [0] => stdClass Object
                        (
                            [MIGX_id] => 1
                            [title] => Spring Term begins
                            [description] => Wrap up warm and please remember to bring £3 for your tickets. Let's go pet some Gnomes!
                            [Date] => 2014-06-04 16:10:00
                        )

                    [1] => stdClass Object
                        (
                            [MIGX_id] => 3
                            [title] => test tstrsr
                            [description] => srsfsddsds
                            [Date] => 2014-06-06 15:55:27
                        )

                )

        )

    [201405] => Array
        (
            [name] => May
            [entries] => Array
                (
                    [0] => stdClass Object
                        (
                            [MIGX_id] => 2
                            [title] => Something else
                            [description] => Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut molestie velit quam, non volutpat massa luctus sit amet. Integer ornare malesuada magna, cursus ultricies erat.
                            [Date] => 2014-05-07 16:11:00
                        )

                )

        )

)

I would like to create html similar to this:

<div class="month">
							<div class="left">
								<div><span>J</span></div> <p>January</p>
							</div>
							<div class="right">
								<div class="accordion">
									<div class="event">
										<div class="eventTitle">
											<strong>6th</strong> Spring Term Begins
										</div>
										<div class="eventDescription">
											<p>Wrap up warm and please remember to bring £3 for your tickets. Let's go pet some Gnomes!</p>
										</div>
									</div>
									<div class="event">
										<div class="eventTitle">
											<strong>6th</strong> Spring Term Begins
										</div>
										<div class="eventDescription">
											<p>Wrap up warm and please remember to bring £3 for your tickets. Let's go pet some Gnomes!</p>
										</div>
									</div>
								</div>
							</div>
							<div class="clear"> </div>
						</div>

Which is repeated for the amount of months in the array. So i'm basically making a listing of a listing, looping through the months and within each month looping through events in that month...if that makes sense.

This is easy enough to do in php/html but modx docs say not to put html in snippets (not sure of the reason). So how could i accomplish this with chunks?

Thanks for any help.

This question has been answered by Bruno17. See the first response.

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livingdeadbeat Reply #2, 12 years, 4 months ago

Actually could i call a snippet from inside my chunk? That would prob work...mmm...

Actually i don't think it will because i can't pass an array to the chunk and then to the snippet [ed. note: livingdeadbeat last edited this post 12 years, 4 months ago.]

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Bruno17 Reply #3, 12 years, 4 months ago

you can collect all outputs by looping thrue your array and have a
inner - loop for the items

$eventsoutput .= $modx->getChunk($itemTpl,$eventArray);

and in your outer month-loop call another chunk with the monthArray and the rendered events.

$monthArray['events'] = $eventsoutput;
$monthoutput .= $modx->getChunk($monthTpl,$monthArray);

But where is this array-construct coming from?
Seems to be a MIGX-TV involved.

May be there is a simpler way to get done, what you are trying.

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livingdeadbeat Reply #4, 12 years, 4 months ago

Hi bruno.

Thank you for the reply again!

The array is coming from a migx list of events with dates, i'm then making that single array into a multi array with this php code

$events = $modx->resource->get('Events');

if($events[1]){
   $entries = json_decode($events[1]);

$monthToEntries = array(); 
foreach ( $entries as $item ){
 $date = \DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $item->Date);
 $monthKey = $date->format('Ym');
 
 if ( ! array_key_exists($monthKey, $monthToEntries) ) {
  $monthToEntries[$monthKey] = array(
   'name' => $date->format('F'),
   'entries' => array()
  );
 }
 
 $monthToEntries[$monthKey]['entries'][] = $item;
}

foreach($monthToEntries as $month){
   $properties = array('month' => $month['name']);
  $output = $modx->getChunk('Months',$properties);
   print $output;
}


}

i'm basically trying to make this

http://imgur.com/g607tH9

discuss.answer

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Bruno17 Reply #5, 12 years, 4 months ago

something like that could work (untested):

<?php

$events = $modx->resource->getTVValue('Events');
$entries = $modx->fromJson($events);


$output = '';
$monthToEntries = array();

if (is_array($entries)) {
    foreach ($entries as $item) {

        $date = $strtotime($item['Date']);
        $monthKey =  strftime('%Y%m',$date);

        if (!array_key_exists($monthKey, $monthToEntries)) {
            $monthToEntries[$monthKey] = array('name' => strftime('%B',$date), 'entries' => array());
        }

        $monthToEntries[$monthKey]['entries'][] = $item;
    }

    foreach ($monthToEntries as $month) {

        $entriesoutput = '';
        if (is_array($month['entries'])) {
            foreach ($month['entries'] as $entry) {
                $entriesoutput .= $modx->getChunk('tplEntry', $entry);
            }
        }

        $properties = array();
        $properties['entries'] = $entriesoutput;
        $properties['month'] = $month['name'];
        $output .= $modx->getChunk('tplMonths', $properties);
    }
}

return $output;

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you can buy me a beer, if you like MIGX

http://webcmsolutions.de/migx.html

Thanks!

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livingdeadbeat Reply #6, 12 years, 4 months ago

Awesome bruno thanks so much!

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