This is the first in a planned series of tutorials covering MODx Revolution 2 for complete beginners from the ground up. MODx Revolution is the new branch of the MODx CMS that’s built on a whole different code base than MODx Evolution. According to MODx founder Ryan Thrash: “MODx Revolution is a completely new MODx. [...]
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MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners Part 1 – Introduction
August 18th, 2010 · 11 Comments · MODx, Tutorials
Tags: Beginner·MODx·MODx tutorial·Revolution
Simple Ecommerce with MODx Evolution and PayPal
June 16th, 2010 · 27 Comments · MODx, Tutorials
In this post, I am going to briefly walk through the process of creating a very simple and basic ecommerce setup using MODx Evolution and PayPal. There are several MODx shopping carts that are at different stages of development and that have different features, however I haven’t extensively tested or used any of them, but [...]
Tags: ecommerce·MODx tutorial·paypal
MODx Evolution and MailChimp
March 19th, 2010 · 29 Comments · MODx, Tutorials
In this post we’re going to go over how to get the MailChimp snippet set up and working on your MODx Evolution site. MailChimp is a service that allows you to send email newsletters, manage subscriber lists, and track campaign performance. You can of course simply create the forms and such directly in MailChimp and [...]
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 [...]
Tags: Evolution·MODx tutorial·PHP
MODx Evolution: Creating a Simple Custom Snippet Part 3 – MODx API, Placeholders, Chunks
January 15th, 2010 · 9 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 [...]
Tags: Evolution 1.0+·MODx tutorial·PHP
