I run a site using the MODx Content Management System. What I'd like to do is set up a news feed on the front page, with a blog-style backend that supports the usual things (tags, categories, archives basically). I've looked into the MODx plugins which provide this functionality (the deprecated NewsPublisher - which we use currently - a...
I'm installing Modx on windows with ISAPI Rewrite instead of apache with mod_rewrite? How do you define the rewrite rules? I'm guessing not with an .htccess file? any Ideas? Thanks ...
I'm having a real nightmare trying to do what should be a very simple task. If I embed a static or independent SWF file, it shows up fine on our ModX powered website. However, when it comes to a dynamic SWF (one that references an XML file and image files etc) I just can't get the thing to show up at all. According to the Flash Menu prog...
I wrote a small app that relies heavily on a series of php pages in which mysql data is displayed and formatted, given the user's credentials. Rather than rolling a whole user management system from scratch, im debating putting these files into modx pages and utilizing its usermanagement features to secure and restrict those pages and t...
What's the easiest way to install PDO on the default php installation of OS X Leopard? I'm trying to get ModX running. ...
When I need to develop a solution using a CMS I recommend to my clients to use MODx, flexible to me as developer and easy to user for content managers. This time my client has introduce a requirement: the solution should be using ASP.NET. The problem is that in my research I couldn't find an equivalent ASP.NET CMS to MODx (http://modxcm...
I'm currently building a site that allows previewing photos and videos using Shadowbox. I'm also using the jQuery Tools Scrollable tool to allows the thumbnails to be scrolled. I'm using ModX as the CMS. I want whoever edits the page to be able to use TinyMCE as the editor, this has been OK for the photos but for the videos I want a d...
I have made a tiny ModX snippet that looks like this <?php $theMenu = $modx->runSnippet('Wayfinder', array("startId" => 0, "level"=>1) ); echo $theMenu; ?> but I would like it to pass ALL params it receives to Wayfinder. I will only be modifying the "level" parameter from my snippet. Is there any way, without naming all the relevan...
In the contact us template I want to have a dropdown with the list of offices (All offices articles are places under the same parent node, so getting the list should be fairly easy). I need a way to add the office email address (Template variable from the Office article) to the email generated by Modx's eForm. I don't want the email addr...
I have a template variable of input type date but I'd like to have a default value of the current date at the time the document was first saved. I've noticed that using the date formatter widget gives an option to "If no value, use current date" however it seems to use the date at the time it is being viewed rather than the date at the ...
How do I hide the content resource field from non-admin users? ...
I've created a snippet that pulls data from a databse table and displays it in tabular format. The snippet takes an id as parameter, and this is added to the sql query. My problem is that if I've got more than 1 snippet call (sometimes need the tabular data for different id's displayed on a page) on the same page, all table data is the ...
For creating common user modifiable site I've been forcing Wordpress to do the work of a CMS. It's worked and the back-end is purdy but it's just too hacky for my tastes. So I'd like a simple CMS that is easy to customize and add dynamic content to. Right now it looks like modx is my best bet. I've tried Joomla a while ago but it was a ...
First of all, hi to everyone! I wan't to ask everypeople if they know modx cms framework, if yes, what do you think about it? If you know it and don't like it, what cms do you advice to use? Thanks in advance, José Moreira ...
Hi to all! my question is, how can i create a table with dynamic fields (i will explain this later), and send them values by mail with eform? In the table, on the left, i want to print all the document childs that are using template XX, and on the top, i want the user to specify how much collums he wants (besides the products/documents ...
I'm using the following Ditto call: [!Ditto? parents='8' &dateSource='event_date' &summarize='100' &format='json' !] But Ditto ignores the dateSource param as long as format is set to JSON. I'm using MODx evo and Ditto 2.1.0. Any ideas? ...
Hi I'm using modx on a site but somthing has gone wrong with the database. Any idea how do I can change the php to point to my database? Thanks for your help Regards Judi « MODx Parse Error » MODx encountered the following error while attempting to parse the requested resource: « PHP Parse Error » PHP error debug Error: mysql_conn...
Hi I'm editing a site using Modx cms. I'm trying to add a contact form to the contact page. I already have one in the sidebar specified in a template. The code on the contact page form points to the same div tags, but it isn't picking up any of the css. any ideas why this is happening. Do I need some kind of plugin? Thanks for all yo...
After I submit the form unsuccessfully, the form looses all the values I typed in. I'm using value="", so that could be related, but if I remove it I get a / in the field, and it still doesn't remember any idea what I could be doing wrong? ...
I've been adding CMS functionality to a site using modx Evolution 1.0.2. I've been doing this on my local dev server (MAMP) and recently put up a copy of the site on a shared host (Bluehost) and everything seems to be working fine except that new users cannot login (wrong username/password combination). Users that were created on my loca...