How to change Resource type of all resources within a catalog?

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It turned out that some catalogs contain goods with resource type - Document, but I need msProduct type to manipulate them

I searched, but I could not find anywhere how to change the resource type with snippet or any other method

Please tell me if it is realizable and if so, how?

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I’m not sure this will work or if it’s safe, but as far as I can tell, MODX doesn’t use that field for anything. I could be wrong!.

By ‘catalog’ do you mean children of a certain parent?

This would change the value of that field for all existing children of resource 12:

$docs = $modx->getCollection('modResource', array('parent' => 12));

foreach ($docs as $doc) {
    $doc->set('type', 'newValue');
    $doc->save();
}

For future resources, you could create a plugin attached to OnDocFormSave like this:

if ($resource->get('parent') == 12) {
     $resource->set('type', 'newValue');
     $resource->save();
}

Use at your own risk! I’d recommend backing up the database before trying this.

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Works. This is really helpful.

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Parent

Yeah, I’m just talking about how ‘resource type’ should look
I’ve seen it assigned as a class_key, but I’ve tried and failed to change it.

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$resource->set('class_key', 'msProduct'); <-- this doesn't work
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Here’s the full code I tried.

$array_ids = $modx->getChildIds(12);

foreach($array_ids as $id){
  $product = $modx->getObject('modResource', $id);
  $product->set('class_key', 'msProduct');
  $product->save();
}

But it just ends immediately.
I can’t find where I made a mistake

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A member of the forum helped me
Here’s the solution.

$child = $modx->getChildIds(12, 10, array(‘context’ => ‘web’));
$q = $modx->newQuery(‘modResource’);
$q->where(array(
‘id:IN’ => $child,
‘published’ => true,
‘Deleted’ => false,
‘searchable’ => true,
));

$products = $modx->getIterator(‘modResource’, $q);

foreach ($products as $k => $product) {
$product->set(‘class_key’, ‘msProduct’);
$product->save();
}

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Thanks for the working code, it will help people down the road

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Unless you (or some extra you’ve installed) have created a custom resource class that extends modResource and used that for the class_key, you might run into serious trouble by modifying the class_key field. MODX and xPDO use it extensively, that’s why the type field would be more appropriate.