Need Help Using the IDX Snippets

[Mary Dorval Lexington]

I am just starting to use snippets for our IDX content and I'm need some direction. Do I copy and paste the snippet into the page content and then change the variable?

For example, I copied the See our Office Listings snippet

/* Only this office's listings */
$_REQUEST['office_id'] = '';

into a page entitled "See Our Listings" and then changed the the office id to
['278'] and that didn't work. The coding is showing up on live page.

What should I be doing? I would like more step by step directions on using these IDX snippets and how we should be using them to our best advantage.

Thanks.

[OCTeam]

Each snippet stands on it's own when you create a Snippet Name. Then you paste the snippet with a #before and #after the snippet name onto the page you want. So it would be #snippet-name# that you insert into the page. If you then change a varible within that snippet code, it will change it on the page where you put #snippet-name#.

You will need to create a new snippet if you want a different variables within the snippet.

[Aaron]

Correct - you place the snippet name on the CMS page like Drew said...

The Office snippet: you would change it to:

/* Only this office's listings */
$_REQUEST['office_id'] = '278';

I noticed you had a snippet called #see-our-listings# - it was missing most of the code .. so I fixed it up so that it'll work.

[Mary Dorval Lexington]

Thanks Aaron. I saw that it started working and I thought I was a genius. Turns out, you're the genius! Appreciate the help.