Answered One page site

I am building a one page site.
Each section is its own resource, and each section has a very different template with multiple TVs.
I thought I could use getresources to pull all the resources into the home page, but cannot work out how to being the complete resource and its template.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Andy

I use two different methods of doing one-page sites, depending on how fixed the sections are.

1. Have each section's HTML structure in the template, and use FastField (or pdoTools) to fetch the various fields and TVs of each section. This makes for a larger template, or you can break the sections out into separate chunks.

2. Use getResources (or pdoResources) to load the sections, and have the content of the resource provide the HTML structure of each section. In this case I use a lot of TVs for section content, with Form Customization to control what editors see and don't see. Admin users can see the Content field to adjust the section structure, while Editor users only see the TVs.

You should look into Content Blocks at ModMore. It's not free, but it is a very nice way to build up sections within resource content. https://www.modmore.com/extras/contentblocks/

Hm. I hadn't thought of that one before, it could be used in a getResources tpl chunk. I'll have to give that a try.

$modx->sendForward() will pull the whole resource into the current URL. I think it will use the template of the other page, but I can't remember for sure.

Well, in a single-page site you don't want multiple full templates, just enough of a template to format the section being loaded.

The whole purpose of a single-page site is so the user isn't requesting and downloading pages. It's all on the same request. Although AJAX can be nice for bits and pieces, such as content loaders for a section full of blocks (see the What We Do section of this site for an example of a multiple-section page with an AJAX content loader)

Quote from: Bruno17 at Nov 14, 2015, 12:09 AM

there is renderResources to get the complete rendered Resources

Thanks all of your input - RenderResources did exactly what i needed - it's perfect - thanks!!

If I may ask a question, would we call it a one page site if it was a background with just one content block (if I may) in the center which toggles left and right to say 5-6 pages of content?

Or are we talking specifically about the "scroll down" sites with multiple parts stacked on each other?

I am just trying to conceptually grasp this. I recently saw a 6 "page" site designed as above and it was very nice, powerful and focused.

The site in question is scrolling vertically, but you could use Modx in more or less the same way to create more of a one page slider site.

Ok thanks, just wanted to understand the terminology