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Setting up CKEditor on MODx Evolution

February 21st, 2010 · 20 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

I’ve been using the default TinyMCE rich text editor that comes bundled with MODx Evolution on all my sites. Recently though, I’ve been a little dissatisfied with it and decided to try a different RTE.  Digging through the forums and the repository, I came across CKEditor as a possible alternative rich text editor. So far [...]

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MODx Evolution: Creating a Simple Custom Snippet Part 4 – Optimize with Caching

January 16th, 2010 · No Comments · MODx, PHP, Tutorials

Part 0: Introduction
Part 1: Write and Test the PHP Script
Part 2: Create the Snippet
Part 3 – MODx API, Placeholders, Chunks
In the fourth part of this brief series on creating a custom MODx Evolution snippet, we’re going to do some optimizing to make our snippet a little more efficient.  So far the snippet seems [...]

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MODx Evolution: Creating a Simple Custom Snippet Part 3 – MODx API, Placeholders, Chunks

January 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Part 0: Introduction
Part 1: Write and Test the PHP Script
Part 2: Create the Snippet
So far we have created the raw PHP script and tested the code outside of MODx.  We’ve started the process of transforming this script into the rssfeedFetcher snippet and we have it working on the Learn MODx website.  We’ve learned [...]

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MODx Evolution: Creating a Simple Custom Snippet Part 2 – Create the Snippet

January 14th, 2010 · 6 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Part 0: Introduction
Part 1: Write and Test the PHP Script
In the last installment of this brief series we went through the process of creating the raw PHP script that will form the basis of our snippet. We tested the code outside of MODx and it seemed to work pretty well. In this part, we’re [...]

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MODx Evolution: Creating a Simple Custom Snippet Part 1 – Write and Test the PHP Script

January 13th, 2010 · 6 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Part 0: Introduction
In the introductory post, I explained briefly what we’re going to create, made some important disclaimers, and blew some hot air around.  In this part, we’re going to get our hands dirty by diving in and writing the PHP script and testing it outside of MODx to make sure it works. In general, [...]

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