Take advantage of Ditto's @FILE property

Most of the times I use Ditto with custom templates and almost all the time my templates have one or more calls to other snippets. If your custom template sits inside a chunk then you probably know that you need to call Ditto uncached.

The following works only uncached:

<div>
    <h2><a href="[~[+id+]~]">[+pagetitle:htmlspecialchars+]</a></h2>
    <div>on [+date+] | Comments (  [[Jot? &docid=`[+id+]` &action=`count-comments`]]  ) For:  [[GetModxVersion? &ids=`[+modxVersion+]`]]</div>
    <div>[+introtext:htmlspecialchars+]</div>
</div>

with the following Ditto call:

[!Ditto? &parents=`10` &depth=`1` &tpl=`article` &showInMenuOnly=`1` !]

To overcome this caching limitation without creating another snippet you can use the @FILE property. First you would need to put the above template in a file on the server. For this example I've chosen the following path: 'assets/templates/site/chunks/article.html'

And here's the cached Ditto call:

[[Ditto? &parents=`10` &depth=`1` &tpl=`@FILE:assets/templates/site/chunks/article.html` &showInMenuOnly=`1`]]

If you know other Ditto tricks leave a message.

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mary
Posts: 1

Re: Take advantage of Ditto's @FILE property
Reply #2 on : Thu September 24, 2009, 09:41:39

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Thanks for these tips!! I have added this site to the list of MODx resources at my blog - http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2009/04/13/modx-resources-and-tutorials-on-the-we/

You should add an About Me page :)

cipa
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cipa
Reply #1 on : Fri September 25, 2009, 10:28:29

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I'm not sure an information about me is required. Maybe about the website. Or maybe I'll write something on the home page. But first I need more content :)