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Quip Latest Comments in Manager Widget

designcouch — Mar 07, 2013, 04:20 PM

Hey all! Happy Thursday. I am looking to get Quip to output the latest comments in my blog to a widget on my manager dashboard, and am having a bit of trouble getting this to work. I've managed to get the Comment Count working using the following snippet:

require_once $modx->getOption('core_path').'components/quip/model/quip/quip.class.php';

if (!isset($scriptProperties['context'])) $scriptProperties['context'] = 'mgr';

$quip = new Quip($modx,$scriptProperties);

return $modx->getCount('quipComment', array('thread' => $scriptProperties['thread']));

Surely retrieving the comments themselves can't be too far beyond this. I'm no wizard when it comes to snippets, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Scratch all the above. It doesn't work at all. It returns a 0 regardless of the amount of comments. I am way over my head here - any thoughts from anyone at all?

Re: Quip Latest Comments in Manager Widget (Best Answer)

designcouch — Apr 15, 2013, 11:00 AM

I guess I may as well close this one out. Community response was surprisingly lacking on this one; better next time, maybe?

My solution was modifying the "LatestComments" snippet included with Quip for use on the backend (along with the accompanying chunks). I also had to create a new directory in core/components/quip/controllers called "mgr" and include a blank PHP file called "header.php" in order to eliminate an error that was springing up.

I've included a screenshot of the end result for you to view.

Re: Quip Latest Comments in Manager Widget

designcouch — Mar 08, 2013, 10:16 AM

I seem to be carrying on my own conversation here. I have tried running this snippet in my widget, but it crashes my Dashboard manager page.

db->connect();
 
$sql = $modx->db->query( 'SELECT * FROM `modx_quip_comments` ORDER BY createdon');
 
$resultArray = $modx->db->makeArray( $sql ); 
 
foreach($resultArray as $item)
{
     $output.=$item;
     $params['name']=$item['name'];
     $params['body']=$item['body'];
     $output.=$modx->parseChunk('comment_list_widget', $params, '[[+', ']]');
}
return $output;
?>