Comments on: A MODx Ditto Directory

By: Gregory Smart

Gregory Smart — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:00:00 +0000

In this example docLink is a Template Variable. This is a PHx statement, inside of a TPL, that checks to see if the TV is not blank. If it is not, then it renders the content inside of the ‘then’ statement. This keeps it from outputting anything unless there is something there to output.
So, if I am understanding, in your TPL the PHx statements would look like: [+CompanyName:isnot=``:then=`Company Name:[+CompanyName+]`+]

By: tino

tino — Thu, 12 May 2011 12:19:00 +0000

I am a bit of a newbie in Ditto though I have used other aspects of MODx.

I followed through the article and created the templates and documents as advised. I thought I understood most of it.

I do not understand the last item under the title “The Snippet(s)”. The one with the following

code:


[+docLink:isnot=``:then=`[+pagetitle+]'s Website`+]

Here you started talking about placeholders yet in the beginning we created TVs. Is docLink some

sort of plugin like pHX? or its a placeholder that relates/is converted from a TV you created(as

one of the directory item fields)

As an example:

I created the following TVs to hold the field values:


[*CompanyName*] - Text
[*Email*] - Input Type: Email
[*Website*] - Input Type: URL

Then in the {{directoryFolder}} chunk, I had the following Ditto Call:


[!Ditto? &startID=`[*id*]` &depth=`2` &tpl=`physicianTPL` &sortBy=`lastName` &sortDir=`asc` &summarize=`10` &paginate=`1` &paginateAlwaysShowLinks=`1`!]

In my {{physicianTPL}} Chunk I have:


Company Name:[+CompanyName:isnot=``:then=`[+CompanyName+]`+]
Email:[+Email:isnot=``:then=`CompanyEmail`+]
Website:[+Website:isnot=``:then=`[+pagetitle+]'s Website`+]

It outputs 10 iterations of

Company Name:

Email:

Website:

…without and content.

Note that I have only created ONE directory entry as a test and expected to see just that one.

What have I done wrong? And why do we call placeholders e.g [+Website+] when we created TVs e.g.

[*Website*]

Hope you can help.

My apologies for the very long email and the ignorance.

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By: Ditto/PHx Directory w/Cross-Categorization | Greg Smart

Ditto/PHx Directory w/Cross-Categorization | Greg Smart — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:57:30 +0000

[...] you missed the first post about creating A MODx Ditto Directory this post is designed to describe the same type of 3 level directory (I am referring to the MODx [...]

By: nolner

nolner — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:02:46 +0000

Lol, thx - never thought of using twitter for this stuff - but then I have follwers and have never sent a tweet!

Heres another one you can maybe help with:
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,44132...

thx again

By: Gregory Smart

Gregory Smart — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:34:48 +0000

I sent out a tweet about it with a link to the forum post and this RSS. Twitter is a pretty good place to get help like this too. Most of the people I follow are related to MODx, you can also search #modx.

By: nolner

nolner — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:24:30 +0000

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,43990…

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