Current status

[JayCarney]

Hi, just wondering where this project is at as I haven't seen any new releases in the extras repo (I've been using an old version with some patches to work with 2.4.x)

[roryg]

Hi @JayCarney you can download the latest build from a couple weeks ago here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/5x627zz1cnq1rxw/elementhelper-2.0.0-alpha-3.transport.zip?dl=0

I've been using it for awhile and it's been working well for me. The only thing left to really do before releasing it to the extras repo is write some tests and documentation. Try it out and let me know if you've got any feedback :)

[rodoneill]

Installed this and it just deleted all my chunks. This has happened in other versions too, is there a way to 'clean' the element_sync.json file and have it rebuild chunks from my static files?

[roryg]

I've had this issue a couple times and need to work out a way proper way to prevent it from happening. In the meantime if you delete the element_sync.json file it should resync the chunks using the static files.

[rodoneill]

I deleted it but it's not resyncing anything now. I can't even manually create a static chunk, it just says an error occurred while saving.

[rodoneill]

My database says the modx_site_htmlsnippets table is marked as crashed and should be repaired.

Repairing the table seems to have fixed up my site, pages are rendering again and my chunks appear in the manager, however the element_sync.json file is not being changed when I make changes - it does however update if I create new chunks.

[roryg]

Hmm interesting, I'm not sure what the cause might be yet. Uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin might help. Can you remember what you were doing when this happened so I can try to recreate it?

[rodoneill]

I think I may have moved some of them from the root chunks directory into a subfolder/category folder as I do recall some of the chunks being recreated in the chunk root folder after they were moved. This was a few days ago though so it's odd that they would get deleted today.

[jchirschy]

@JayCarney Could you share us what are the fixes you're talking to get ElementHelper 1.3.3 working with MODX 2.4.2 ?
@roryg What is the rather stable version of ElementHelper working with MODX 2.4.2 ? I've to launch a new website in less than a week and I'm facing some big troubles with ElementHelper 1.3.3.

[roryg]

2.0.0-alpha-3 linked above is the latest version. I've used it to build a few sites and it works well in my experience but there may be edge case issues like above so I would recommend keeping backups while you work just in case.

Any further progress on this?

[JayCarney]

Sorry for the super late reply @jchirschy basically to get 1.3.3 working in 2.4.x and above, I just swapped all referances to the depreciated modx time fucntion to php's native microtime function in my element_helper plugin file, you should be able to just copy and paste this gist into your element_helper plugin within the manager.

Sorry it's not packaged as a new version of the extra. I have a base MODX install I use for all new sites, so I've never really needed a packaged version