Pull content & TVs from other document?

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jbloggs2002 Reply #1, 18 years, 2 months ago

I’m working on a site that will have multiple articles listed, and I want the site manager to have the choice of which one is featured on the front page.
I want a TV on the front document where the manager can insert the doc ID of the "featured" page, and then pull the title, content & one TV from that doc to insert in the front page.
How do I do this? I thought about using ditto, but I have to specify the parent ID, not the actual document ID

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dev_cw Reply #2, 18 years, 2 months ago

Ditto works with &documents to select specific documents. For example: [!Ditto? &documents=`1,2,3`!] will return only docs 1, 2, and 3.

If you use a TV it would look like this: [!Ditto? &documents=`[*tvName*]`!]

Another solution to accomplish this would be to add a "add to home" TV on every document and use Ditto with to only show the options that are tagged. There is a simple tutorial for this on the Ditto support site.

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grahoom Reply #3, 18 years, 2 months ago

use - getTemplateVarOutput

so i’d do it as follows.

$page_id = $modx->documentObject['id']; // the id of the page currently being passed.
$page_tv = $modx->getTemplateVarOutput('*',$page_id,"1"); //  the TV of the page.
$chosen_page_tv = $modx->getTemplateVarOutput('*',$page_tv['chosen_page_id'],"1"); // where chosen_page_id is the TV for the page to appear on the home page.

then you can access the title, content and tv’s from the $chosen_page_tv array.