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 to be working as expected and is pulling in the feeds as needed. However, it's a little inefficient. The way things are set up now, every time someone refreshes the page, the script fetches a new copy of the rss feed from the coding pad, or whatever source you're pulling your feeds from. If you have a heavily trafficked site where people spend a lot of time on your site and visit many pages (thus, for example, constantly refreshing your snippet call in the sidebar), this can be resource heavy on both your side slowing your website down, and also on the web server that you're pulling the feeds from. We can mitigate this by implementing caching.
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If you want to take MODx Revolution beta (or any other MODx release) for a test run without going through the install process for yourself, you can do so at MODx Demo, a website that lets you try out both the front end and the back end to get a feel for it. Those of you who've been following my…
Welcome to part 10 of our series of tutorials on building a website with MODx CMS. So far we've looked at:
Part 1: Introduction to MODx
Part 2: Installing MODx
Part 3: Working with Templates
Part 4: Introducing Chunks
Part 5: Introducing Snippets
Part 6: Introducing Template Variables
Part 7: Introducing Ditto
Part 8: More Ditto
Part 9: Adding a Contact Form with eForm
So far things are looking good on our Learn MODx website, and we're adding more functionality and hopefully building our skills with each of these tutorials. My hope is that by this point you've developed enough of an idea of the way MODx works that you're moving on and exploring on your own, building and testing, and hopefully you know some things that I don't about MODx and it's workings :) So far our website looks like this:
One of the things I find myself looking for in every website I visit is a search box or link. Whether the website is a massive knowledge portal such as Wikipedia, or a social networking site, a blog, or just a simple company website, having the ability to search the website and find the information I need without clicking through numerous links is very important to me. It then follows that I would like to add search functionality to the websites I build. This what we're going to accomplish in this segment.
Welcome to part 9 of our series of tutorials on building a website with MODx CMS. So far we've looked at: Part 1: Introduction to MODx Part 2: Installing MODx Part 3: Working with Templates Part 4: Introducing Chunks Part 5: Introducing Snippets Part 6: Introducing Template Variables Part 7: Introducing Ditto Part 8: More Ditto As we work through these tutorials, we're building a MODx resource site called Learn MODx. So far we have a pretty functional website and I hope that you're picking up enough knowledge and interest along the way to experiment with MODx and add features and functionality to your website. In this installment, we're going to look at how to add a vital part of any website, the contact form, to our MODx website, using the eForm Snippet.
Welcome to part 8 of our series of tutorials on building a website with MODx CMS. So far we've looked at: Part 1: Introduction to MODx Part 2: Installing MODx Part 3: Working with Templates Part 4: Introducing Chunks Part 5: Introducing Snippets Part 6: Introducing Template Variables Part 7: Introducing Ditto As we work through these tutorials, we're building a MODx resource site called Learn MODx. In the last installation we introduced Ditto and continued working on the Library section of our resource website. In today's installation we're going to continue working some more with Ditto, and learn how to template our output so that our Library page has the look we want. In the learn we will learn a little more about Ditto, its parameters, and its placeholders.