Using a Placeholder to Call the Parent's longtitle

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towerofbabel Reply #1, 18 years, 3 months ago

I have a ditto chunk where I need to get the long title, or even the pagetitle, of the parent for each ditto item. Using [+parent+] calls the unique ID of the parent, "7" in this case. I tried searching for a way to customize this in ditto, or some other method, but I came up with nothing.

Any suggestions?

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bob1000 Reply #2, 18 years, 3 months ago

You could try using PHx. Create a snippet called phx:docfield and add this code:

<?php
$field = (strlen($options)>0) ? $options : 'pagetitle';
$docfield = $modx->getTemplateVarOutput(array($field), $output, 1);
return $docfield[$field];
?>

Then in your ditto chunk, use:

[+parent:docfield=`longtitle`+]

The snippet is set to use pagetitle as the default field if none is specified in the placeholder.

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towerofbabel Reply #3, 18 years, 3 months ago

thank alot!

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dev_cw Reply #4, 18 years, 3 months ago

There is also the GetField snippet.

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