Answered Different usage of $modx->resource... in snippets and in plugins?

If I use for instance:



it works in snippets!
But in plugins it only works this way:



Why is this?

Greetings,
Martin

I think because of the manager uses something like resources on its own for the manager pages.

Which variables are available on Plugins should be checked for every Event in the long List of System Events.
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/System+Events

First of all, I'm not sure if I'm getting what you are saying, but I just had a look in a plugin I wrote a few days ago, and there I have stuff like this:



obviously there is just that



like it's also used in snippets, so I don't see the problem you have there, maybe it's depending on the event? Not sure about that. When you have this problem, which event are we talking about?

What I recently noticed is that the available variables are not always correctly listed in the rtfm. For example is also available in OnWebPageComplete but the rtfm says under available variables "none", so first check what's written in the RTFM and then if you need it in an event where is written "none" try it anyway =P. [ed. note: exside last edited this post 11 years, 5 months ago.]

One is part of the $modx object, the other is a resource object provided by the event function.

Perfect explanation @Bob! Thank you very much!

Thank you Bob (again),

hope the MODx documentation gets updated soon as I'd like to find this kind of informations for myself.

greetings,
Martin

Thanks also to all others for your help!

Quote from: exside at Dec 05, 2012, 12:01 PM

First of all, I'm not sure if I'm getting what you are saying, but I just had a look in a plugin I wrote a few days ago, and there I have stuff like this:

// event OnWebPageComplete
$modx->getOption('base_path') . 'some/path/' . $modx->resource->get('id') . '/';

obviously there is just that

$modx->resource->get('id')

like it's also used in snippets, so I don't see the problem you have there, maybe it's depending on the event? Not sure about that. When you have this problem, which event are we talking about?

What I recently noticed is that the available variables are not always correctly listed in the rtfm. For example

$modx->resource

is also available in OnWebPageComplete but the rtfm says under available variables "none", so first check what's written in the RTFM and then if you need it in an event where is written "none" try it anyway =P.

Hi exside,

I'm using some backend/manager events like OnDocFormSave, OnDocPublished, ...
It turns out that in plugins you don't have always access to all MODx variables.

The event you used in your example above uses a frontend event.

Thanks for jumping in!
Martin [ed. note: gadgetto last edited this post 11 years, 5 months ago.]

I think the RTFM info just lists the variables sent in the invokeEvent() call (as does my book), so if $modx->resource or $modx->user happen to be available (as they often are in the front end), they won't be listed.