[solved] How to Create a products page - My Forums

Re: [solved] How to Create a products page

fruitwerks — Dec 23, 2007, 10:08 AM

It is good practice, but I do not use spacing, or & on the first passed variable.. never had probs.

Re: [solved] How to Create a products page

smashingred — Dec 22, 2007, 09:43 PM

I am not sure if it is required but I would think that spacing the parameters would be a good idea also. It won’t hurt and with spacing it will work for sure (provided the call is actually valid).

Cheers,

Jay

Re: How to Create a products page

ian_m — Dec 22, 2007, 04:07 PM

ok Solved it, the problem was after the opening [[ditto? i did not leave a space before the &parents=.....

I did not know it required a space hence I was not looking at this as a problem but anyway all ok now and thanks to everyone that has helped.

For anyone else having the same problem below is the final call that works

[[Ditto? &parents=`48`&tpl=`vans_sold`&display=`all`&summarize=`5`&paginate=`1`&paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`]]

Cheers

Ian

Re: How to Create a products page

smashingred — Dec 22, 2007, 03:54 PM

Try putting spaces between your parameters. I have had problems of ditto only parsing the first or last paramater if there is no spaces.

See below:

[!Ditto? &parents=`48` &tpl=`vans_sold` &display=`all` &summarize=`5` &paginate=`1` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`!]

Hope this helps.

Jay

Re: How to Create a products page

ian_m — Dec 22, 2007, 02:27 PM

Quote from: ganeshXL at Dec 22, 2007, 06:56 PM

What does your tpl now look like? You can add &debug=`1` to get addtl. infos on how Ditto is parsing/fetching things.
Remember that MODx - like PHP - is case-sensitive; if you renamed your template, Ditto maybe can’t find it.

I have been though the spelling to the point I copied and pasted from the chunk name into the &tpl name, I added the &debug=`1` to the call but the output renamed the same with no errors output at all, I will provide a couple of screenshots below in the hope they provide something of use, been playing with this all day and have never had this much trouble getting anything to work before so guess I must be overlooking the obvious.

My Chunk

My parent page

Can anyone see what my error is

Re: How to Create a products page

ian_m — Dec 22, 2007, 12:32 PM

Tried everything I can think of on this now and still no luck,

Why does this
[!Ditto?&parents=`48`&tpl=`vans_sold`&display=`all`&summarize=`5`&paginate=`1`&paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`!]

output this
product number 3
by Default admin account on 22-Dec-07 13:58

Thats I guess is some kind of default output for the id=48 child pages

Can anyone give me some idea of something else to try so the &tpl=`vans_sold` starts to include that chunk

Cheers

Re: How to Create a products page

ian_m — Dec 22, 2007, 07:01 AM

OK have changed the name from content to description and things are starting to work

ok this code
[!Ditto?&parents=`48`&tpl=`vans_sold`&display=`all`&summarize=`5`&paginate=`1`&paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`!]

outputs this
product number 3
by Default admin account on 22-Dec-07 13:58

But it does not output the chunk called vans_sold or this chucks TV so at a total loss why this does not happen.

Can anyone give me any more pointers

Cheers

Ian

Re: How to Create a products page

ian_m — Dec 22, 2007, 06:44 AM

Thanks for the help but I am still doing something wrong. My ditto call is now

[!Ditto?&parents=`48`&tpl=`vans_sold`&display=`all`&summarize=`5`&paginate=`1`&paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`!]

Yes the page was published it was called item 1 I have now renamed it to product 1 and it shows as a child to the parent page called parent page.

I checked the chunk name/spelling to make sure it ties up with the &tpl name call and it does. I have 2 template vars called content and heading which appear at the base of the pages under the main editor.

Before I set up the above was I meant to install anything else, I am presuming ditto is all part of the core on MODx and is ready to go.....

Anyone know what I’m missing and thanks for all help so far

Regards

Ian

Re: How to Create a products page

dev_cw — Dec 22, 2007, 06:30 AM

Don’t think this makes a difference but is a good practice to get into. Add a &before the first parameter as well. So it would be:

[!Ditto? &parents=...

Re: How to Create a products page

ian_m — Dec 22, 2007, 05:43 AM

Well giving this a bash wonder if some can tell me where I am going wrong.

I have created a parent page which is page number 48 and have added the following to it
[[Ditto?parents=`48`&tpl=`vans_sold`&display=`all`&summarize=`5`&paginate=`1`&paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`]]

ok the current vans_sold template is stored as a chunk and looks like this

[+heading+]

[+content+]

Right now I dont get the output of this chunk in the template at all as can be seen here

Because I have binded the 2 TV’s that are in the chunk called content and heading to this page I can now get the new text areas at the bottom of the page when editing. Should I not do this and if not how do you add information.

Had a scan of the documentation but cant see anything simple that shows how to do what I am trying to achieve

Cheers

Cheers

Ian