MODX Staff
Hi,
I would like to count the number of documents inside a container and display that number
Would be nice if ditto could do that but I did not find a way to do that
Thx for your help
<?php
// initialize and get the number of children for a particular parent
$childCount = 0;
if ($children = $modx->getChildIds($parent, $depth)) {
$childCount = count($children);
}
// do something with $childCount or just return it
return $childCount;
?>[!GetChildCount? &parent=`[*id*]` &depth=`1`!]
MODX Staff
Ditto would likely require an extender or something, or the use of ditto placeholders instead of [*id*] for instance. Might post in the Ditto support board for specific help doing things like this most efficiently within Ditto.
Yep but if I use ditto to display the a list of containers it would be nice to display the number of documents within Ditto.
I will have look and see if I can get it to work with ditto
Thx
<?php // initialize and get the number of children for a particular parent $childCount = 0; if ($children = $modx->getChildIds($parent, $depth)) { $childCount = count($children); } // do something with $childCount or just return it return $childCount; ?>
And then call it in your content, e.g. to get just the immediate child count for the current document:
[!GetChildCount? &parent=`[*id*]` &depth=`1`!]
<?php
$GLOBALS['ditto_object'] = $ditto;
$placeholders['counterCh'] = array("id","countChildrens");
if (!function_exists("countChildrens")) {
function countChildrens($resource) {
$lr = '[[ChildrenCount? &parentId=`'.$resource[id].'`]]';
return $lr;
}
}
?>