Cross Context links

General
1

I created a context, and I have a subdomain pointing to it. vote.mysite.com

I’m using PDOpage and PDOmenu to pull content from the main context WEB. The [[~[[+id]]]] in the VOTE context are making links to the subdomain. How can I get it to make links to the WEB context?

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I don’t think you can do it with a link tag, but a custom snippet (call it MyWebLink) should work.

Tag:

<a href="[[!MyWebLink? &id=`[[+id]]` &context=`web`]]">Link Text</a>

Snippet:

/* MyWebLink Snippet */

$id = $modx->getOption('id', $scriptProperties);
$context = $modx->getOption('context', $scriptProperties);

return $modx->makeUrl($id, $context, "", "full);

You may have to play with the caching in the tag to get it to work. The example above is my best guess on the correct version.

3

You probably have to create a context setting site_url (and maybe http_host as well) in the “web” context.

I think otherwise, the value $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] of the current request is used to create the URLs (which has the wrong value for links to the main context).

4

You can do this also with a link tag: [[~[[+id]]? &scheme=`full` &context=`web`]] Normally you don’t need to use &context=`web`, since MODX detects this on its own.

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[[~174? &scheme=`full` &context=`tools`]]`

doesn’t work for cross context in my case, but FastField eand pdoField work (MODX Revolution 2.8.4-pl).

6

Then the context is wrong. Please look in the MODX error log. The reason should be logged.

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[2024-12-24 11:01:05] (ERROR in resource 890 @ /var/www/XXXXXX/XXXX/XXXXX/XXXXX/XXXXXX/model/modx/modparser.class.php : 1373) Bad link tag `[[~191? &scheme=`full` &context=`tools`]]`

encountered

If

[[~191? &scheme=`full` &context=`tools`]]

is in a “tools” context resource, it works

8

What happens if you leave out the &context property?

If the context is set up correctly, it should use the current context by default.