modxwebdev

The first ever (I believe) MODx book is now available!  It is titled MODx Web Development, authored by Antano Solar John and  published by Packtpub.

You can get a copy of MODx Web Development at Packtpub (ebook costs $22.39, paperback costs $35.99, bundle costs $40.79).

Here is a quick rundown of the contents of the book:

Chapter 1: What is MODx?

  • Content management system
  • An application framework
  • Web development methodologies
  • Why MODx?
  • Overview of the book
  • Summary

Chapter 2: Getting Started

  • Setting up the development environment
  • Downloading MODx
  • Documentation
  • Getting support
  • Summary

Chapter 3: MODx Basics

  • Site configuration
  • Changing the name of the site
  • The basic element of MODx: Documents
  • MODx Manager interface
  • Using the HTML editor
  • Creating the Front Page
  • QuickEdit module
  • Documents revisited
  • Summary

Chapter 4: Templating

  • Changing the template of a document
  • Creating a new template and giving it a category
  • Making the Home Page use the created template
  • Choosing a default template
  • Introducing template variables
  • Modifying the template to add dynamic behavior
  • Template variables
  • Creating a blog site
  • Snippet and chunk basics
  • Using a custom form for the Post a Blog ! page
  • Rich text editor for the blog content
  • Summary

Chapter 5: Authentication and Authorization

  • Create web users
  • Add the login snippet
  • Document group for friends
  • Restricting access for a document
  • Post moderation
  • User registrationlog in snippet
  • Snippets and authorization
  • Summary

Chapter 6: Content Aggregation

  • Ditto
  • XML formats
  • Summary

Chapter 7: Creating Lists

  • Menu details in document properties
  • Authentication and authorization
  • Theming
  • More theming using chunks
  • Multiple calls
  • Summary

Chapter 8: Snippets

  • Working of snippets
  • Finding snippets
  • Learning about snippets
  • Using non-bundled snippets
  • Summary

Chapter 9: PHx

  • PHx in action
  • The PHx notation

Chapter 10: Simple Recipes

  • Forums
  • Image gallery
  • Emailing from forms
  • User profiles
  • Similar posts
  • Summary

Chapter 11: Creating Snippets

  • Learning to create a snippet
  • MODx API
  • Fortunes
  • Summary

Chapter 12: SEO, Deployment, and Security

  • SEO
  • Deployment
  • Security
  • Summary

Chapter 13: Plug-ins and Modules

  • Plug-ins and events
  • Modules
  • Summary

It is also, at the time of this writing, available from Amazon.com for $39.99.

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