[solved] NewsListing error...

Hey! I keep getting an error message from the NewsListing snippet: "Your NewsListing template is blank or you have a typo in the chunk name, please check it." I know the chunk name is alright and the template is NOT blank, so what’s wrong? Here’s the details:

In my "Articles index page" I make a simple NewsListing call, where id=6 is the root folder of all my articles :

I’ve created a chunk called NewsListingTemplate which looks like this:

...and lastly, in the template which my "Articles index page" uses, "article_index", I just put [*content*] in the main content <div>. Maybe it’s me who’s stupid, but this is how I understand from the documentation how it should be done.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Mats Wall


PS. I downloaded MODx last Saturday, March 25. It came with NewsListing 4.4 without any /assets/snippets/newslisting/ folder and no functions.php. I spent most of my day yesterday trying to figure out why the NewsListing call simply killed my page. It came up blank! I got unexpected help from Robsta (thanks, Rob!) who unintentionally alterted me to this problem. I downloaded the latest version, and after that I get at least an error message...

Hi Zzzeke,

Just looking at your snippet call, make sure you use `` instead of ’’. So, this should work:


Please post back if the problem still occurs after making this change.

Cheers, Garry

Glad to have been able to help

Unintentionally? LOL tehehe!

I feel a new cartoon character coming on.... Is it Superman? is it batman? no, it’s unintentional man! LOL sorry, got a little side tracked!

Quote from: Robsta at Mar 28, 2006, 03:50 PM

Glad to have been able to help

Unintentionally? LOL tehehe!

I feel a new cartoon character coming on.... Is it Superman? is it batman? no, it’s unintentional man! LOL sorry, got a little side tracked!

LOL...

Quote from: garryn at Mar 28, 2006, 03:42 PM

Hi Zzzeke,

Just looking at your snippet call, make sure you use `` instead of ’’. So, this should work:

[[NewsListing? &tpl=`NewsListingTemplate` &truncSplit=`false` &startID=`6` &summarize=`3`]]

Please post back if the problem still occurs after making this change.

Cheers, Garry

Thanks, Garryn, for the suggestion! But this made it even worse. Now I don’t even get an error message. It’s just... silent.

Try to refreshing site from site menu, and call your snippet uncached [! .... !]

regards,

zi

Quote from: zi at Mar 28, 2006, 04:22 PM

Try to refreshing site from site menu, and call your snippet uncached [! .... !]

regards,

zi

Nope, no change. I refreshed the site from my MODx manager site menu, set the NewsListing call to non-cache, [!...!] and even did an "ipconfig/flushdns" from windows cmd, just in case. Then I called the snippet again. But... no.

Q: Does it make any difference for the NewsListing snippet what language settings I use in my Doctype declaration, xml:lang="sv"...and... lang="sv" ? And also charset=utf8 ...and... content-language content=sv ? I ask because the output from the snippet disappears altogether when I use ` instead of ’ or ". In the latter case I at least get an error message...

Quote from: Zzzeke at Mar 28, 2006, 05:03 PM

Q: Does it make any difference for the NewsListing snippet what language settings I use in my Doctype declaration, xml:lang="sv"...and... lang="sv" ? And also charset=utf8 ...and... content-language content=sv ? I ask because the output from the snippet disappears altogether when I use ` instead of ’ or ". In the latter case I at least get an error message...

Hmm... I get even more suspicious when I read something like this in the bug tracker: http://modxcms.com/bugs/task/306?tasks=all.

EDIT: No, no luck there either. I’ve tried to change all these setting one at a time, refreshing my site in between. But no change. Suggestions anyone?

Try this call and let me know if it works:

[[NewsListing? &tpl=`NewsListingTemplate`&startID=`6` &summarize=`3`]]

If it does not work, remove all the parameters and add them back until it works. Please let me know which one is the issue.

Which version of NewsListing are you running?

Quote from: Mark at Mar 28, 2006, 10:27 PM

Try this call and let me know if it works:

[[NewsListing? &tpl=`NewsListingTemplate`&startID=`6` &summarize=`3`]]

If it does not work, remove all the parameters and add them back until it works. Please let me know which one is the issue.

No, your suggested call didn’t work. Even a plain call without any parameters doesn’t work. It’s just mute. As I said earlier, if I change the ( ` ) to ( ’ ) or ( " ) I get the snippet to at least say something ("Your NewsListing template is blank or you have a typo in the chunk name, please check it").

Which version of NewsListing are you running?

I run the latest 6.3.3... downloaded yesterday. Before that I ran the version (4.4) that comes default with the 0.9.1, the one without functions.php in a non-existing /assets/snippets/newlisting folder. That one rendered the page blank!