return time();
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/**
 * getContextSetting
 *
 * Useful for retrieving settings from a different context.
 * Used in the Head chunk for always looking for custom css on main domain.
 *
 * @author Bob Ray
 */

$ctx = $modx->getOption('context', $scriptProperties, null);
$setting = $modx->getOption('setting', $scriptProperties, null);

if ($ctx == null) {
    return 'No Context set';
} elseif ($setting === null) {
    return 'No Setting set';
} else {
    $csObj = $modx->getObject('modContextSetting',
        array(
            'context_key' => $ctx,
            'key' => $setting
        )
    );
}

if ($csObj) {
    return $csObj->get('value');
} else {
    return 'Context Setting not found';
}
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$elementType = $modx->getOption('type', $scriptProperties, '');
$elementName = $modx->getOption('name', $scriptProperties, '');

// Set correct database table information based on the element type
switch($elementType) {
    case stripos($elementType, 'electrontv') !== false:
        $dbTable = "site_tmplvars";
        $dbNameField = "name";
        $modxObject = "modTemplateVar";
        break;
    case stripos($elementType, 'atom') !== false:
        $dbTable = "site_htmlsnippets";
        $dbNameField = "name";
        $modxObject = "modChunk";
        break;
    case stripos($elementType, 'molecule') !== false:
        $dbTable = "site_htmlsnippets";
        $dbNameField = "name";
        $modxObject = "modChunk";
        break;
    case stripos($elementType,'organism') !== false:
        $dbTable = "site_htmlsnippets";
        $dbNameField = "name";
        $modxObject = "modChunk";
        break;
    case stripos($elementType, 'template') !== false:
        $dbTable = "site_templates";
        $dbNameField = "templatename";
        $modxObject = "modTemplate";
        break;
    case stripos($elementType, 'page') !== false:
        $dbTable = "site_content";
        $dbNameField = "pagetitle";
        $modxObject = "modResource";
        break;
    case stripos($elementType, 'formula') !== false:
        $dbTable = "site_snippets";
        $dbNameField = "name";
        $modxObject = "modSnippet";
        break;
    case stripos($elementType, 'computation') !== false:
        $dbTable = "site_plugins";
        $dbNameField = "name";
        $modxObject = "modPlugin";
        break;
    case stripos($elementType, 'bosonfield') !== false:
        $dbTable = "contentblocks_field";
        $dbNameField = "name";
        $modxObject = "cbField";
        break;
    case stripos($elementType, 'bosonlayout') !== false:
        $dbTable = "contentblocks_layout";
        $dbNameField = "name";
        $modxObject = "cbLayout";
        break;
    case stripos($elementType, 'bosontemplate') !== false:
        $dbTable = "contentblocks_template";
        $dbNameField = "name";
        $modxObject = "cbTemplate";
        break;
    default:
        $dbTable = "";
        $dbNameField = "";
        $modxObject = "";
        break;
}

// In case we are dealing with a ContentBlocks element, load CB service
if (stripos($dbTable, 'contentblocks')) {
    $cbCorePath = $modx->getOption('contentblocks.core_path', null, $modx->getOption('core_path').'components/contentblocks/');
    $ContentBlocks = $modx->getService('contentblocks','ContentBlocks', $cbCorePath.'model/contentblocks/');
}

// Prepare db query and retrieve description
if ($modxObject) {
    $query = $modx->newQuery($modxObject, array(
        $dbNameField => $elementName
    ));
    $query->select('description');
    $description = $modx->getValue($query->prepare());

    return $description;
} else {
    $modx->log(modX::LOG_LEVEL_ERROR, '[displayElementDescription] ' . $elementName . ' could not be processed');
}
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/**
 * firstChildID
 * Finds the first child from the given id
 * Returns the first child id or the given id on failure
 *
 * @author Bert Oost <bert@oostdesign.nl> at OostDesign.nl
 *
 * Examples:
 *
 * As output filter:
 *   [[*id:firstChildID]]
 *
 * As snippet:
 *   [[firstChildID? &id=`[[*id]]`]]
 */

$id = (isset($input) && !empty($input)) ? $input : false;
if(empty($id)) { $id = $modx->getOption('id', $scriptProperties, $modx->resource->get('id')); }

// select the first child
$c = $modx->newQuery('modResource');
$c->select(array('id'));
$c->where(array(
    'parent' => $id,
    'published' => true,
));
$c->sortby('menuindex', 'ASC');
$c->limit(1);

$child = $modx->getObject('modResource', $c);
if(!empty($child) && $child instanceof modResource) {
    return $child->get('id');
}

return $id;
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