Dynamically create TVs

8 Posts

masadm Reply #1, 11 years, 10 months ago

Hi,

Is it possible to dynalically create TVs in a snippet? For e.g I have the following code in a snippet:

if (condition) {
                $tvs = $modx->newObject(modTemplateVar);
                $tvs->set('name'=>'newTemplate');
                /*more settings*/
                $tvs->save();
}

I know I may need to assign it to a template and set few more porperties but in theory is it possible to do this? I have been searching about it in the forums about creating new objects via newObject method but couldn't find one about template variables.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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Bruno17 Reply #2, 11 years, 10 months ago

What is the purpose for creating TVs by a snippet here?

It is possible with something like that:

                $tv = $modx->newObject('modTemplateVar');
                $tv->set('name'=>'newTemplateVar');
                /*more settings*/
                $tv->save();

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masadm Reply #3, 11 years, 10 months ago

Thanks for the reply Bruno. I noticed the missing single quotes after posting the question and TheBoxer helped me out. Basically there is a CSV input file which I am importing which should create TVs on the fly for a specific template. The above code is working now. Thanks for the help!

Quote from: Bruno17 at Dec 01, 2014, 08:30 AM

What is the purpose for creating TVs by a snippet here?

It is possible with something like that:
                $tv = $modx->newObject('modTemplateVar');
                $tv->set('name'=>'newTemplateVar');
                /*more settings*/
                $tv->save();