PHx placeholders skipped.

Sorry if this has been answered before but I have been searching for an answer forever.

I am running Modx 9.6 and Ditto 2.1.

I am trying to get Pagination to work but the placeholders get stripped out. I have already tried cached, uncached, and everything else I can think of. I turned on the PHx logging and this is what I get.

35 [16:47:54] MODx / PHx placeholder variable: test_current
36 [16:47:54] |--- Skipping - hasn’t been set yet.
37 [16:47:54] MODx / PHx placeholder variable: test_total
38 [16:47:54] |--- Skipping - hasn’t been set yet.
39 [16:47:54] MODx / PHx placeholder variable: test_previous
40 [16:47:54] |--- Skipping - hasn’t been set yet.
41 [16:47:54] MODx / PHx placeholder variable: test_pages
42 [16:47:54] |--- Skipping - hasn’t been set yet.
43 [16:47:54] MODx / PHx placeholder variable: test_next
44 [16:47:54] |--- Skipping - hasn’t been set yet.
45 [16:47:54] MODx / PHx placeholder variable: test_start
46 [16:47:54] |--- Skipping - hasn’t been set yet.
47 [16:47:54] MODx / PHx placeholder variable: test_stop
48 [16:47:54] |--- Skipping - hasn’t been set yet.
49 [16:47:54] Cleaning unsolved tags:
test_current
test_total
test_previous
test_pages
test_next
test_start
test_stop

If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it. If I can get this figured out I will be happy with Modx. Let me know if I can provide more details.

what does the Ditto call look like? Did you activate the pagination &paginate=`1`? !f you are using PHx in your Ditto Tpl you need to set &phx=`1` in the Ditto call.

That did not work. Sorry I didn’t post the ditto call here it is with the phx added:

[!Ditto? &parents=`3` &id=`test` &display=`5` &total=`20` &depth=`2` &extenders=`summary` &paginate =`1` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1` &tpl=`DittoTemplate` &phx=`1`!]

Also here is just some of the place holders I was trying to use.

Page [+test_current+] of [+test_total+] Articles [+test_previous+] [+test_pages+] [+test_next+] [+test_start+] [+test_stop+]

I have this right under the Ditto call in the template.

I have also tried disabling the PHx plugin but that did not work either.

Try it with [+pages+] rather than [+test_pages+]. Are you including the id because you have more than one ditto call on the page? Otherwise it is not needed.

Hi,

this in a known bug of PHx plugin.
To make it work:
- uncache the page
- call ditto cached.

:-)

I just put in the id to try something else. I took out the id though and still have the same results. What file would normally tell modx how to fill the parameters? Is it the ditto snippet itself?

I have also tried loading the page uncached and the ditto call cached. I have read many posts on that. I will try again though.

Ok. Tried changing the caching setup and still nothing.

this is weird
I’m using this settings all the time succesfully.

As the ditto call is cached PHx (executes the snippet call) so it knows them and do not skip them.

:-)

I know a lot of people are using the exact settings that I am, which is so frustrating. Again this is my current Ditto call:

[[Ditto? &parents=`3` &display=`5` &total=`20` &depth=`2` &extenders=`summary` &paginate =`1` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1` &tpl=`DittoTemplate` &phx=`1`]]

I have this in a template, then I have a page that I call uncached that uses the template.

In the system events though, PHx logs this "MODx Chunks -> Merging all chunk tags", it used to see the different [+page+] and other placeholders and say that it could not fill them.

Modx 9.6, Ditto 2.1, PHP 5

Anyone have any idea’s? I guess it’s time to uninstall Modx and go to something like Joomla maybe.