MODx template variable image make downloadable

Question

I work in MODx Evolution and created a template variable which is an image. I want this image to be downloadable by my website visitors. Is that possible, how?

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Answer 1

What is happening is that your TV output type is set to "image" - Modx will output an image tag in that situation and not just the path. You can change the output type to default so that only the path is output, then you can pass that to your download/push scripts. OR leave the TV type as is and write another snippet to retrieve the TV value, which will be the path & filename. Docs here

Something like:

/call snippet
[[!getMyTVvvalue? &id=`[[*id]]`]]

// snippet 
$resource = $modx->getObject('modResource', $id);
return $resource->getTVValue('my_image_tv');

// might be handier to output it to a placeholder
$my_path = $resource->getTVValue('my_image_tv');
$modx->toPlaceholder('my_image_path', $my_path);

// output in your page
[[+my_image_path]]

Though it would be easiest to just change your output type.