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Check Extended Field for Duplicates

todd.b — Apr 10, 2018, 01:58 AM

Revo 2.6.2

I found this thread https://forums.modx.com/thread/101939/use-getobject-to-check-existing-data and was curious if it would work for an extended (ClassExtender) field ("screenName") to check if the same value already exists?

Re: Check Extended Field for Duplicates

BobRay — Apr 11, 2018, 06:33 AM

It would be a part of some other snippet where you'd respond to the duplicate name somehow (where the comment is).

Re: Check Extended Field for Duplicates

todd.b — Apr 10, 2018, 10:11 PM

Is this the entire snippet or part of the above snippet?

Re: Check Extended Field for Duplicates

BobRay — Apr 10, 2018, 05:17 AM

Not exactly, but this should do it:

$screenName = ''; // set this to what the user entered 
if ($modx->getCount('userData', array('screenName' => $screenName))) {
    /* screen name is already in use */
};