For the Wayfinder with Javascript, I have seen quite a few MODx sites using javascript in the Wayfinder menu. I strongly recommend you read through the excellent and free wayfinder ebook and especially read on the &jsTpl parameter Here’s the link to the book download page (it’s on the first post: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,34176.0.html

I also recommend a visit to the forums. Do some reading and ask some questions. For example:
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,12272.msg81622.html#msg81622

I think the Wayfinder ebook will help you a lot

mary

After doing a number things from changing templates to putting the javascript in the the template, I started to tear things apart/out one by one. What I found were some serious conflicts with the templates in Wayfinder. Normal content was fine but when I started to include things that had javascript that’s when things would break down. The template calls in the snippet were the conflict–I think–as when I removed them things came together. They were &parentRowTpl=`cssplay_revParentRow` &cssTpl=`cssplay_revFlyOut`. I was only using the “flyout” to one level. But using this code from template to template was causing the problem.

I also found that on a resource if I just had pictures or pictures and just a very small amount of content prior to the picture and javascript, these would come through on the Ditto page and crash the Ditto.

I look at Modx as being an extremely powerful platform, and yet I saw/see these challenges as a barrier that once committed I would struggle with all the time. Simple content all went fine, but I wanted to test a few more things to see how I would handle these.

Also, and though this has more to do with snippets and not sure if technically possible, it would be nice if when creating a resource/document you could choose to turn on or off the Modx API on that particular resource and allow for Inline PHP. That would be powerful. Maybe it is possible now and I am just not aware.

Thank you Mary,

Thomas

What happens if you just place your javascript directly in the template without using a chunk? Does it work?

mary

Thank you.

First, might it be important to have the html base reference – in a chuck or is that just inherited from the template?

Second, I have a bit of code that contains Javascript. And I think that chucks are the proper place for this. I run this code outside of Modx Evo and works fine. I put it into a chunk and then call the chunk in my document and no errors but just a blank page.

Here is the code:

function kw_switch(i,c) {
d=document;if (d.getElementById){ d.getElementById(’kwMain’).src=i;
d.getElementById(’kw_caption’).innerHTML=unescape(c);}
}

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To check myself, I also tried to call the page that works outside of Modx with [!ShowStaticHtmlPages?dir=`assets/docs`&index=`picturegallery.htm`!]

In this case the images appear but no functionality. I also disabled Quick Editor to make sure there were not conflicts there.

If you have any thoughts I would appreciate them. Thank you.