MODx Web Development Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: What is MODx?
• Content management system
• An application framework
• Reusable program components
• Abstracting logic from presentation
• 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

• Chapter 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
• Getting support
• Web forums
• IRC
• Summary

• Chapter 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: Documents
• Containers
• MODx Manager interface
• Using the HTML editor
• Creating the Front Page
• QuickEdit module
• Documents revisited
• Editing documents
• Document properties
• General tab
• Page Settings
• Meta Keywords tab
• Preview tab
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Templating
• Changing the template of a document
• 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
• Creating a document
• Post a 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
• NewsPublisher and the Rtcontent field
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Authentication and Authorization
• Create web users
• Other user properties
• Add the login snippet
• Document group for friends
• Restricting access for a document
• User group: Document 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

• Chapter 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 documents to a category
• XML formats
• Machine-readable formats and readers
• Readers
• Formats
• Ditto and XML formats
• Creating RSS views for each category
• Filtering
• Multiple clauses
• Extenders
• Summary

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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 required files
• Using the snippet
• Snippet without dependent files
• Snippeting skills
• Summary

• Chapter 9: PHx
• PHx in action
• Installing PHx
• Adding Family and Friends documents
• The PHx notation
• Simple usage
• Conditional statements
• Usage with the PHx placeholder
• Multiple conditions
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Simple Recipes
• Forums
• Installing SMF
• Installing the SMF module
• Image gallery
• Emailing from forms
• User profiles
• Installing WebLoginPE
• Edit profile
• List users and view profile
• Link to edit profile
• Similar posts
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Creating Snippets
• Learning to create a snippet
• Returning an 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

• Chapter 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
• 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

• Chapter 13: Plug-ins and Modules
• Plug-ins and events
• Using an existing plug-in
• Configuration
• System events
• Exploring other plug-ins
• Using custom plug-ins
• Learning about the plug-in
• Creating plug-ins
• Event-triggering snippets
• Modules
• Using modules
• Creating a module
• Executing a module
• Module's Manager interface
• Dependent plug-ins
• Learning to use custom modules
• Summary

• Index