MODx Web Development - Second Edition电子书

MODx Web Development

Table of Contents

MODx Web Development

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. What is MODx?

Content management system

Manage content

Content management rules

Define content

An application framework

Web development methodologies

Old school—conventional three tiers

Advantages of the conventional three tiers

Disadvantages of the conventional three tiers

Templating

Advantages of templating

Disadvantages of templating

Application frameworks

Advantages of application frameworks

Disadvantages of application frameworks

Content management systems

Advantages of content management systems

Disadvantages of content management systems

Why MODx?

Why a CMS?

Why an application framework?

So, why MODx?

Overview of the book

Summary

2. Getting Started

Setting up the development environment

Prerequisites

Linux

Windows

MAC

Verification

Downloading MODx

Installing MODx

Creating a database

Starting the installation

Installation status and diagnostics

Documentation

Official documentation

Community-driven documentation

Combined

Getting support

Web forums

IRC

Summary

3. MODx Basics

Site configuration

Configuring the site

Default Manager interface page

Noticing and fixing errors and warnings

Changing the name of the site

The basic element of MODx: Resources

Containers

MODx Manager interface

Using the HTML editor

Creating the Front Page

DocManager module

Resources revisited

Editing documents

Resource properties

General tab

Settings

Access permissions

Summary

4. Templating

Changing the template of a resource

Creating a new template and giving it a category

HTML

CSS

Steps to create the new template

Making the home page use the created template

Choosing a default template

Introducing template variables

Modifying the template to add dynamic behavior

Changing existing templates

Template variables

Creating template variables

Template variable values

Data source binding

Widgets

Creating a blog site

Using a Snippet

Creating a resource

Blog entry

Snippet and chunk basics

Generating output

Using a custom form for the Post a Blog! page

HTML for the custom blog form

Steps to create a chunk

Using a chunk as a form template

Checking the Post a Blog! page

Rich text editor for the blog content

Creating the template variable

Chunk and template variable

NewsEditor and the Rtcontent field

Summary

5. Authentication and Authorization

Creating a web user

Other user properties

Add the login snippet

Resource group for friends

Restricting access for a resource

User group: Resource group

User: User group

Post moderation

Creating a role

Creating a Manager user

Checking the new role

User registration

Showing a signup form

Joining a default group

Link the signup form in the log in snippet

Snippets and authorization

NewsPublisher and authentication

Summary

6. Content Aggregation

Ditto

More flexibility with parameters

Aggregated data in a template

Theming MODx—chunks and placeholders

Introducing tagging

Creating a template variable to hold the category

Assigning resources to a category

XML formats

Machine-readable formats and readers

Readers

Ditto and XML formats

Creating RSS views for each category

Filtering

Multiple clauses

Extenders

Summary

7. Creating Lists

Menu details in document properties

Authentication and authorization

Getting to know WayFinder

Theming

Creating a simple menu

Nested menus

Changing the name in the menu

Doc Manager

Removing pages from the menu

More theming using chunks

Breadcrumb navigation

Multiple calls

Summary

8. Snippets

Working of snippets

Finding snippets

Learning about snippets

Jot with the minimal configuration

Snippet parameters

Placeholders

Using non-bundled snippets

Installing a snippet

Downloading and extracting a snippet

Adding a snippet

Copying the required files

Using the snippet

Snippet without dependent files

Snippeting skills

Summary

9. PHx

PHx in action

Installing PHx

Adding Family and Friends resources

Template Code

The PHx notation

Simple usage

Conditional statements

Using the PHx placeholder

Multiple conditions

Summary

10. Simple Recipes

Forums

Installing SMF

Installing the SMF module

Image gallery

E-mailing from forms

User profiles

Installing WebLoginPE

Edit profile

List users and view their profiles

Link to edit a profile

Similar posts

Summary

11. Creating Snippets

Learning to create a snippet

Returning output

Returning placeholders

Processing a chunk

Using parameters

MODx API

DBAPI

$MODx->db->select

$MODx->db->getRecordCount

$MODx->db->makeArray

Fortunes

Creating the table

Code for fortunes

Testing the snippet

Chunks, placeholders, and parameters

Using files

Summary

12. SEO, Deployment, and Security

SEO

Search engine-friendly URLs

Meta tags and keywords

Site map

XHTML Strict

Other SEO tweaks

Using CSS to control the layout

Content first

Hidden text

Descriptive text

Alternative text

Cross links

Tracking

Inbound links

Quality content

Deployment

Filesystem

FTP

SFTP

WebDAV

Database

Exporting

Importing

Configuration file

Configurations

Security

File permissions

Installer

Writable configuration file

Captcha

mod_security

Unused files

Manager configurations

User tab

File Manager tab

Summary

13. Plugins and Modules

Plugins and events

Using an existing plugin

Configuration

System events

Exploring other plugins

Using custom plugins

Learning about the plugin

Creating plugins

Event-triggering snippets

Modules

Using modules

Creating a module

Executing a module

Module's Manager interface

Dependent plugins

Learning to use custom modules

Summary

14. MODx Revolution

Why Evolution, why Revolution…

What is similar?

What to expect?

Tags

A peek into Revolution

Core technology changes

xPDO

Sencha and Smarty

Join the community

Summary

Index