Modules like Ditto

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elo1981hot Reply #1, 13 years, 3 months ago

I have the rather easy task of making a RSS feed builder in MODx 2.0.6 pl2.

As I see it this is very easy done with Ditto but not so easy with getResources.

When I read about getResources it says that you could still use Ditto and other extras for special cases.

But when I read about Ditto it says that there will not be any further development on Ditto.

So which one should I use for my purpose?

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Ryan Thrash Reply #2, 13 years, 3 months ago

getResources. In the new MODX site here’s how we’re implementing them.

[*] Use a blank template
[*] Make the Content Type RSS with Inline Disposition
[*] Put the following in the content, replacing the relevant bits, like the &parents=`` param ... you could also leave out the TVs since we are using a custom date for sorting (porting over older blog entries)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
    <title>[[*pagetitle]]</title>
    <link>[[~[[*id]]? &scheme=`full`]]</link>
    <description>[[*pagetitle:cdata]]</description>
    <language>[[++cultureKey]]</language>
    <ttl>120</ttl>
    <atom:link href="[[~[[*id]]? &scheme=`full`]]" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
[[!getResources?
  &tpl=`rssItem`
  &parents=`51`
  &limit=`10`
  &includeContent=`1`
  &includeTVs=`1`
  &showHidden=`1`
  &hideContainers=`1`
  &cache=`0`
  &sortbyTV=`article_date`
]]
</channel>
</rss>

And our Chunk:

<item>
    <title>[[+pagetitle]]</title>
    <link>[[++site_url]][[~[[+id]]]]</link>
    <description>
    [[+tv.article_source:is=``:then=`[[+content:cdata]]`:else=`[[+introtext:cdata:default=`[[+content]]`]]`]]
    </description>
    <pubDate>[[+tv.article_date:strtotime:date=`%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S -0600`]]</pubDate>
    [[+tv.tags:notempty=`<category>[[+tv.tags]]</category>`]]
    <guid isPermaLink="false">[[++site_url]][[~[[+id]]]]</guid>
    <dc:creator>[[+tv.article_source:default=`[[+tv.blog.AuthorID:userinfo=`fullname`]]`]]</dc:creator>
</item>

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elo1981hot Reply #3, 13 years, 3 months ago

Thanks!

That lokks just nice to me.

Regards Erik.

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modx.customize Reply #4, 13 years, 2 months ago

Great example!
Just 1 small issue: can it include TV? The docs says it’s possible, right?! But this:

<rss>
.
...
.....
<language>en-gb</language>
[[!getResources? &parents=`58` &tpl=`rssListing` &includeTVs=`1` &processTVs=`1` &tvPrefix=``]]
</channel>
</rss>

does not seem to work.. I mean no tv value is in output when i try [[+AssignedTV]]

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Mark Hamstra Reply #5, 13 years, 2 months ago

Shouldn’t be any trouble including TVs.. just need to prefix them with tv.

http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/getResources#getResources-DisplayingTemplateVariableswithgetResources

You can also change the prefix with &tvPrefix

For future reference, how to create RSS feeds with getResources can also be found on the RTFM: http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/getResources.Building+a+RSS+feed

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modx.customize Reply #6, 13 years, 2 months ago

Thanks, you are right there should not be any trouble & my call is [[!getResources? &parents=`58` &tpl=`rssListing` &includeTVs=`1` &processTVs=`1` &tvPrefix=``]] where i do specify &tvPrefix but probebly incorrect?

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Mark Hamstra Reply #7, 13 years, 2 months ago

Oh I missed that in your call, sorry.

Can you just try leaving that parameter with value "tv." and prefix it in your tpl? Maybe it doesn’t allow blank values.

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modx.customize Reply #8, 13 years, 2 months ago

it’s ok thanks,

well, i removerd the parameter of tvprefix,

<item>
      <title>[[+pagetitle:toCDATA]] </title>
      <link>[[++site_url]][[~[[+id]]]]</link>
      <guid>[[++site_url]][[~[[+id]]]]</guid>
      <pubDate>[[+createdon:strtotime:date=`%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z`]]</pubDate>
      <description>[[+introtext:toCDATA]] ~[[+tv.location]]</description> 
</item>

but i still have an empty string after description and ~
so the placeholder [[+tv.location]] does not work i am afraid, I mean it does NOT being pulled out to HTML source at all, strange, can you view a private link of that?

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Mark Hamstra Reply #9, 13 years, 2 months ago

You’re saying it is visible in the source, but not in the feed? In that case your feed is off, and as you’re wrapping the introtext in cdata, the rest might just be left out...

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modx.customize Reply #10, 13 years, 2 months ago

sorry, my mistake.
it ’s not seen in HTML source code

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