I want to be honest with you, I’ve kind of been putting off writing my review of MODx Web Development from Packt Publishing. I actually finished the book about a week ago and just felt like I had to give it some distance so I didn’t totally bash this book. It’s not really [...]

I needed to cache a chunk as a file so that another application (an ecommerce store) could include that file as well. I wrote this plugin that does that:

$chunks = array(‘StoreMenu’); // array of chunks that need to be cached
foreach($chunks as $v)
{
$res = $modx->db->select("snippet","modx_site_htmlsnippets","name = ‘$v’");
if($modx->db->getRecordCount($res))
{
[...]

I added a new tool today for MODx users that turns a MODx snippet call into a snippet call using the MODx API function runSnippet(). It’s a pretty simple tool, but I made it because I hate doing this manually (it’s just too tedious). Enjoy.
MODx Snippet Call2PHP

So I was looking at my Google Webmaster Tools this morning for devtrench.com and I throught it was pretty funny to see that this site ranks #1 for “modx sucks“.
Just for clarity I wanted to write this post to let everyone know that my opinion is that MODx doesn’t suck, but that there are few [...]

This post started out titled Pros and Cons of MODx CMS, but today I’m rewriting it because I’m really not in the mood to give you a bunch of fluff about why MODx is great and then give you the bad stuff. Flat out, I think MODx is the best CMS for my projects [...]

I don’t want to take credit for this, but I definitely wanted to blog about it because I think it is a big deal. In a forum post I made on modxcms.com, ganeshXL came up with an awesome way to cache snippet output with a MODx plugin. Here is what ganeshXL wrote:

create a [...]

Now that it’s January 2008 some of my clients are noticing that the year in their copyright statements don’t reflect 2008. Now, I always set this to drop in a dynamic value, but that wasn’t the case before I was hired. This is such an easy thing to set up when you are developing [...]

If you’re a programmer you probably get the request to create a form that sends an email somewhere. Writing forms is probably the task I hate doing the most because it can be so tedious. There’s the initial form creation, the validation, and finally the email template to stick the data into and [...]

A while back I posted an sql install script that I use for MODx that I called ResourceInstaller. My plans of creating a module based around this script haven’t materialized into anything yet, but the script has evolved a bit. I’ve renamed the sql script to AutoSiteStart because there was another project named [...]

This is an annoying error that you can get in MODx when uploading new files via the FCK Image Browser, and I’ve only ever seen it in the Internet Explorer browser. The fix for it is quite simple though…

Open manager/media/browser/mcpuk/connectors/php/Commands/GetFileUploadProgress.php
After //Progresshandler not specified, return generic response (mine is line 46) insert:
header (“content-type: text/xml”);
echo “< [...]