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[MEGU]

> Dear netProphET

Thank you for answering my comment.

I tried TobyL's mod http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,14306.msg96738.html#msg96738,
and it did not do the trick.

I thank that you gived me valuable information.
I readed the thread which you showed.
I think also that my trouble is the same as that.

I tried TobyL's hack too.
But it did not work for me..

Sincerely yours,

[ncrossland]

FYI: using the hack will result in  PHX not being recursive.
The reason phx takes on the placeholders is because it needs to resolve the value when they are nested.

I haven't incorporated this hack for this reason. BUT I've uploaded a new version (2.1.3) which includes the "get modifier from file" functionality.

[netProphET]

PHx is prohibiting me from specifying a Chunk name with a TV.
ex. {{[*right-hand-images*]}}

It seems to me that 2 problems have surfaced for users of PHx
- using placeholders as snippet parameters
- using a template variable as the name of a Chunk

I would love to see a list of any other similar issues. It feels like there might be others. Are these issues being addressed or do they underscore an incompatibility - in order for PHx to achieve what it does, it makes certain feats of the core MODx parser impossible? If the former is true, I think there should be some sort of official disclaimer within the PHx distribution. Maybe with the rewrite of the core for 0.9.7, this will all go away, so expending energy on it for 0.9.6 is not worthwhile?

Any thoughts on this are appreciated.

[myan24]

Hi,

When using ditto I'm trying to display a ditto template if the user is logged in and another if a user isn't logged in. The purpose being that only registered users can view the full document. Here's what I have which seems to work, but I wondered if anyone who has more experience could tell me if this is the best way to do it and if i've done it right:

Code:

[+phx:userinfo=`id`:gt=`0`:then=`
<h3>[+pagetitle+]</h3>
<p>[+introtext+]</p>
<p><a href="[~[+id+]~]">View details</a></p>
`:else=`
<h3>[+pagetitle+]</h3>
<p>[+introtext+]</p>
<p><a href="[~36~]">Login to view details</a></p>
`:strip+]

Document id 36 is a login page.

Thanks for any input!!

[pixelchutes]

Is it possible to leverage Ditto's pagination placeholders when PHx is enabled? Yes!

I am using v2.1.3, and PHx gets to my placeholders before Ditto even has a chance

Sadly, http://ditto.modxcms.com/tutorials/phx-and-nested-tags.html doesn't account for "non-PHx nested placeholders"...

ditto_pages Chunk:

Code:

<div id="ditto_wrapper">
    <div id="ditto_pages">[+articles_previous+] [+articles_pages+] [+articles_next+]</div>
    <strong>[+articles_total+]</strong> Total Articles<br/>
</div>

Update:

The only work-around I was able to get to work was to actually place the chunk & placeholders inside of a snippet:

Code:

<?php
$html='<div id="ditto_wrapper">
    <div id="ditto_pages">[+articles_previous+] [+articles_pages+] [+articles_next+]</div>
    <strong>[+articles_total+]</strong> Total Articles<br/>
</div>';

return $html;
?>

So, rather than having to store HTML in the snippet, I am going to rewrite it to pull from the chunk I was using before anyway:

Code:

<?php
return $modx->getChunk( 'ditto_pages' );
?>

And that worked!

Now I can keep my code separate, and edit the chunk as I would normally, and PHx behaves nicely with my Ditto placeholders

[netProphET]

Interesting, Pixelchutes. I used the same kind of solution to solve my problem, which had nothing to do with Ditto.
Problem: with PHx, I became unable to specify a Chunk directly with a TV, like this:

Code:

{{[*right-hand-images*]}}

Solution: so I wrote a snippet whose job it is to simply return a chunk, essentially like your snippet code. Then, to duplicate the functionality of the call above, I just need to change the call to this:

Code:

[[returnChunk? &chunk=`[*right-hand-images*]`]]

This might be the basic pattern to solving this general problem introduced by PHx.

[pixelchutes]

This might be the basic pattern to solving this general problem introduced by PHx.

What if PHx used different identifiers (or was able to be custom defined) other than [+ and +]? It would seem anything that NEEDED PHx modifiers/functionality could leverage PHx parser's identifiers, while regular placeholders used the MODx default ones?

I know this would solve at least 3 issues I have personally ran into, which involve Ditto, eForm, and your chunk example above...

[rthrash]

Great point Mike. Sounds like a good consideration for a future release.

[netProphET]

This is a vote for adding 2 core extenders to PHx.
- urlencode
- stripslashes
I have made my own extender mini-snippets to provide this functionality. They work fine, but they're just one simple php function, and I'm left thinking that if they were part of the PHx core code, there would be less processing going on.
I am using these functions a lot during form processing (along with the already-defined htmlent processor)... I am able to cut a lot of processing code out of my form handling snippets by moving these processors into the template.
May this also be considered as PHx functionality is integrated into the 0.9.7 core.

[boblin]

How to avoid cases where i have to use snippet with parameters inside Phx call? The only way i found is to create chunk with such call, but it is against good programing practices imho (-;

[pixelchutes]

How to avoid cases where i have to use snippet with parameters inside Phx call? The only way i found is to create chunk with such call, but it is against good programing practices imho (-;

Code:

[+phx:input=`[[YourSnippet?&param1=`value1`]]`:is=`...`:then=`...`+]

[Marschant]

Installed PHx last night to try and get around an irritating Ditto issue only to have all my wayfinder calls that use placeholders die. Here's an example of what I've done:

Code:

[!Wayfinder? &startId=`22` &level=`2` &ph=`currentDevs` &config=`colliers` !]
[!Wayfinder? &startId=`23` &level=`1` &ph=`pastDevs` &config=`colliers` !]
<ul id="leftNav">
<li class="toplevel blue"><a class="toplevel" href="[(site_url)][~1~]">Home</a></li>
<li class="toplevel current"><a class="toplevel" href="[(site_url)][~22~]">Current Developments</a>[+currentDevs+]</li>
<li class="toplevel past"><a class="toplevel" href="[(site_url)][~23~]">Past Developments</a>[+pastDevs+]</li>
<li class="toplevel purple"><a class="toplevel" href="[(site_url)][~10~]">About Colliers</a></li>
</ul>

PHx plugin enabled: zero output...
PHx disabled: menu items are shown...

Any ideas?

[pixelchutes]

PHx plugin enabled: zero output...

Any ideas?

It's all a matter of understanding how PHx works. Unfortunately, PHx often conflicts with placeholders created by other snippets as it pre-parses the actual placeholder BEFORE it even gets set in the first place.

[Marschant]

Thanks I understand that issue, I'm really hoping that 0.9.7 will address certain shortcomings with what I consider to be the core MODx snippets: Ditto, Wayfinder & PHx... I mentioned in a previous post (http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,20811.0.html) my misgivings with Wayfinder (no tv filtering support), Ditto (no native tiered output for parents/children) and now PHx (powerful conditionals & modifiers, prevents use of placeholders).

I'm just getting incredibly frustrated with the limits of each one, MODx is brilliant but has many issues preventing it from being the Numero Uno CMF of choice. Since many projects rely on complex associations, and tv's are the only way to handle this, I feel there are way too many hoops to jump through when trying to get the three snippets mentioned above to work together.

Another issue for me and potentially for clients is local => live synchronisation, hence I'm taking the approach of using as many file system resources as possible i.e. snippets, chunks & partials stored in sub-dir of main template, it just seems easier to FTP new files instead of messing around with a DB synch, anyway I've wandered off-topic...

[luuuciano]

Hi!

can this be done with phx?

I have a products section, and some products have more details (more photos, made with a maxigallery in a child of each document),something like this:

products
  product1
  product2
  product3
    product3details
  product4
  product5
    product5details
  ...and so on

so, if the product have a child (details) I need a link to it in the non detailed product document...

is there any way to do it?
any idea?


TIA, and sorry for the bad english

luciano