Pogwatch

Manage sets of 'Player' (custom table) items

The management overview for items in a custom table needs either a purpose-built snippet to extract the relevant fields from the database, or the use of LoopDbChunk (no longer findable in MODX Extras) or similar utility. In this example, the custom ListSections snippet is used. It looks after both display and management, and shows the players in an orchestra in sets under their section.

The Manage Players page has Add and Move buttons at the top, calling on the ItemDropList snippet to generate selection lists linking each item's rank with its ID. So you can preset a new item's position in the list, or change the position of items within the management page.

The ListSections snippet sets up placeholders to be used in two templates: &outerTpl for section headings, and &innerTpl for entries within each section.

Our example chunk for the management page uses a table to diplay the data. Section headings are created as rows of TH elements using the "outer" template chunk, pk.orch.section.manage.tpl

The "inner" template chunk, pk.orch.player.manage.tpl, generates table rows with TD cells containing hyperlinks for commands to edit, to publish/unpublish items and to delete them. Here the commands and data are written into a URL query string. You could also use forms with Javascript-generated hyperklinks for the Submit action if preferred.

• The PubKit package
  • Parameters
  • Previewing items
  • Confirming deletion
  • Language setting
• Snippets & shared functions
  • Resources main logic
  • Custom records main logic
  • Shared functions
  • OptionButtons class
  • PHx modifiers
  • ItemDropList snippet
  • ListSections snippet
  • setSecurityToken snippet
• PubKit Classes
  • Resource class
  • Post class
  • NewsItem class
  • Event class
  • Record class
  • Player class (using custom table)
• Chunks for forms and overviews
  • Create/Edit Post
  • Manage sets of 'Post' items
  • Create/Edit Event
  • Manage sets of 'Event' items
  • Create/Edit Player record
  • Manage sets of 'Player' items
• Template Variables
  • TVs for Tagging
  • Custom TVs and document fields