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Just posted this over in the MODx forum and I wanted to cross post it here too. Just for fun

Here is the forum post: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,15225.0.html

I really like MODx I especially like how accessible the core code is when you want to make a modification. One of the things that really bugged me about MODx is how the Veriword Captcha is displayed - both the look of it and the default words used for the captcha. I really didn’t want my clients having to type in words like Zygote,BitCode,MODx,etc. I just wanted a ‘normal’ looking captcha with random characters. So I modified the veriword script to output what I think looks nice, and it uses a random string of characters. I just wanted to post the code and images that I redid in case someone else wanted a different look, or wanted to see what I did so they could make the captcha look how they wanted. It isn’t too hard if you know PHP and an image manipulation tool like Photoshop or the Gimp.

Here is an example of what the script looks like (used with the eForm snippet).

And now for a link to the file:

Now you can either get this file from here, or from the MODx Resource Repository.

better-veriword-captcha-1.0.zip

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I’ve been using the Postini spam protection solution through my great host for a while now and I really like. We just don’t get any more spam and it’s a breeze to use. Some of our clients want a sneak peek though before they sign up, or they want a feature tour to see what is available in the interface. This video shows off the Postini interface and what you can do in it. You’ll learn how to login, how to set your junk email settings, how to add people to your Allowed Senders and Blocked senders, and how to configure your virus settings. Enjoy.

video removed…postini was updated

This video was created with CamStudio, a free video screen capture program, and I use the wordTube WordPress plugin to display it. Very cool tools

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I really needed a script that would work like a resource installer to install some basic templates, chunks, snippets, and categories that I always use when developing in MODx. This SQL script will install home page and inside page templates, a head, banner, content, and footer chunk to be used with those templates, some snippets, and some categories. This works with MODx 0.9.5. I plan on taking this basic SQL script and creating some kind of module with it in the future (perhaps called Resource Installer), but this is the down and dirty version. Let me know if you would be interested in a module like that and what features you think it would need.

ResourceInstaller.0.1.beta.sql

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