Comments on: Building a Website with MODx for Newbies – Part 4: Introducing Chunks

By: Christine Golden

Christine Golden — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:27:22 +0000

Just wanted to let you know this tutorial series is easy to understand and very helpful. Thanks!

By: Janelle

Janelle — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:01:21 +0000

Thanks so much for all your hard work to put these together, Mary. God Bless you!

By: mary

mary — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:47:33 +0000

alan
Not entirely sure I understand your question, but let me see if I can help. The [*content] tag represents the main content field when you create a new page. So when you go into the manager backend and choose to create a new document, whatever you enter in the main content area is parsed into the part of your template where you placed the [*content] tag.

In the template I used, the main static dummy content for the page was inside the div, and since I wanted to replace this static dummy content with dynamic content from the pages I create, I therefore needed to place the [*content] tag inside the divs.

What TVs do is that they allow you to create multiple content fields of different kinds, giving you a lot more flexibility.

Does this help?

What’s the link to your forum question?

mary

By: alan

alan — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:36:23 +0000

I posted this question on the forum, but I wanted to re-phrase the question to you as well and get your feedback.

Can you explain why you used [*content] instead of making the content a chunk in itself? I presume you did this in order to avoid multiple chunks/templates, but I’m confused as to how this resource field is used. And furthermore, your thought process into why you placed the resource field within the main div itself and not placing the div within the resource field.

I haven’t been able to follow your tut on TVs and I think this might be why. Thank you so much!

By: Jerome Bohg

Jerome Bohg — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:28:59 +0000

Wow, great stuff. I just started to use ModX and this really helps out a lot. Great tutorial to get things started. I’m about to go to part 5 where hopefully more magic is about to happen.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:50:49 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial. It’s been ridiculously helpful.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:11:33 +0000

I’ve been working through these tutorials so far and found them all perfectly easy to follow. Bravo!

Moving on to the next lesson, then…

By: msolli

msolli — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:13:27 +0000

Hey !
I’m discovering your tutorials and all what I have to say is Thanks for the clarity =)
I’ll move to the next one right now !