Custom Snippet: get parent of resource with specific ID

[vibedesign]

I’m writing a custom snippet and I need to get the pagetitle of the parent resource from the ID which is stored in $resource.

I only found how to get the parent of the current resource but not how to make it use my variable $resource and find the parent of that:

$parent = $modx->resource->getOne('Parent');
return $parent->get('pagetitle');

I’m new to creating custom snippets but I hope there is a simple solution to this.

[dimmy]

The goal of the snippet is to get the pagetitle from the parent of the current resource?

there is a snippet called ultimate parent that could do that
but if you like to create your own then you are almost there I think, maybe its better to rename $resource to $resourceId, for clarity.

$myResource = $modx->getObject('modResource', $resourceId);
$parent = $modx->getObject('modResource', $myresource->get('parent'));
$pagetitle = $parent->get('pagetitle');

https://docs.modx.com/3.x/en/extending-modx/xpdo/class-reference/xpdo/xpdo.getobject

[vibedesign]

@dimmy

The goal of the snippet is to get the pagetitle from the parent of the current resource?

No, there’s more to it, that was just the part that I’m stuck with. Thank you for the help and hints on clarifying my code!

[bobray]

Here is a slightly faster method (using dimmy’s renamed variable):

    $query = $modx->newQuery('modResource', array (
        'id' => $resourceId,
    ));
    $query->select('pagetitle');
    $parentPagetitle = $modx->getValue($query->prepare());