From form to pdoresources

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#1

Hi,

I’m thinking about a solution for the following problem: I have several documents in a parent folder. These documents have various properties that are realized using TVs.
I would like to create a form in which the user can make various settings. After the form has been sent, the corresponding documents should then be displayed using pdoResources.

But how do I send the settings made in the form to pdoResources?
Does anyone have an approach?
So pdoResources should get the settings tvFilters and so on from this form.

#2

Create your form and collect the ids (checkboxes).

You FormItRetriever - FormIt | MODX Documentation to get the submitted ids.

I would just test it first to display the list, then you should be able to past the ids to pdoResources.

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#3

The settings from from form are available in the PHP super globals $_POST, $_GET, $_REQUEST.
You can read the values from these super globals in a snippet and sanitize them.

Version 1: With the submitted values you create the &tvFilters string (or the condition for the &where property) in your snippet and return the value directly.

[[!pdoResources?
    ...
    &tvFilters=`[[!mySnippet]]`
]]

Version 2: You read the submitted values in a snippet and create placeholders ($modx->setPlaceholder('myPlaceholder', $some_value);) that are used later in the pdoResources call.

[[!mySnippet]]

[[!pdoResources?
    ...
    &tvFilters=`[[!+myPlaceholder]]`
    &where=`[[!+myOtherPlaceholder]]`
]]

Version 3: You read the submitted values in a snippet and directly execute pdoResources in the snippet with $modx->runSnippet(...).

return $modx->runSnippet('pdoResources', [
    'tvFilters' => $my_filter_string,
    'tpl' => 'myTemplate', ...
]);

Make sure to call these snippets (and placeholders) uncached.

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#4

Thanks a lot, that are both very good approaches that will help me a lot.