How to create Resources (documents) from the front end (with a form)?

Hi All,

I am very interested in this, but I am just starting to get my feet wet with modx revo and php. I would greatly appreciate it if someone would please explain how to implement this.

I copied the code from Bruno17’s post and created the formit2resource and the resource2formit snippets, as well as a resource with the formit call and the code for the form. When I preview that resource, I can fill in the form. After I press the "Create Resource" button on the bottom of the form, the page goes blank and a new document does not seem to have been created anywhere.

Thanks for any help.

In Bruno’s example code you specify the parent.
So make sure you are entering in an id that exists for the resource to be created under.

Hello again,

I still haven’t been able to get this to work.

Following landonpoburan’s suggestion, I’ve checked to make sure that I specify a parent id that actually exists. I have a container resource called "TestPages with a resource id of 48, and I am entering "48" (without quotes) in the "Parent" field of the form that Bruno’s code creates. After I finish the form, and click the "Create Resource" button, the page clears and nothing else ever happens. I’ve checked the error log, and no errors or warnings are being generated.

I suspect that something fails in the &preHook, because it appears that the form is never processed; no email is generated and no resource is created. Just to check, I added a &redirectTo, and this is never processed either.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I’m missing? Thanks for the help.

-Bob

I suspect that something fails in the &preHook, because it appears that the form is never processed; no email is generated and no resource is created. Just to check, I added a &redirectTo, and this is never processed either.

did you remove the &preHook to check if it has todo with that?
the preHook is only needed if you want to edit existing resources and has nothing todo with form-processing.

whats your actual snippet-call?
you can try to find out where something goes wrong, when you add a line with at top off the script.
if that works (sends the mail), you can move the line down and see when your page gets blank.

Dear Bruno17
Add a simple example to your snipets resource editing and adding value to the TV option

Hello,

I am still having trouble with this one. Here is the snippet call I am using: (with my email address removed)



I have tried to strip the snippet call down to the essentials to try to find my problem, but maybe I have left out something important. My problem seems to be with the formit2resource snippet, as I never get to the email hook. (FYI, I have used formit to create a simple contact page, and that worked fine.)

As has been previously suggested, I have ensured that the parent resource for the new document does exist, and if I add a



statement at the head of the formit2resource snippet, the email hook runs.

Is there something within the formit2resource snippet that I am supposed to modify? I just can’t see what I’m missing.

As always, thanks to the Modx community for the help.

-Bob

did you try to move

some lines down to see on which line it stops to work?
do you see errors in your error-log?
do you have the latest formit-version?

Hello,

help me how to add a TV in the form?
and how to edit a resource?

Hello,

Thanks to Bruno17, I now have this working. All I needed was to upgrade formit.

Regards,
-Bob

@G4:

for TV just add something like that to your form:



for editing resources use resource2formit as prehook and add all your fields and tvs to &resource2formitfields
Example:



and create a link to your formit2resource - page (let’s say it has the id 200) for example from a page whre you list your resources you want to edit with getResources.

in your getResources - tpl: