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Answered Expanding to mobile apps

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    wholein1 Reply #1, 10 years, 5 months ago
    I recently got into a conversation with some friends bout mobile app like for Android. I was working on my first app using Android Studio, but my friends said that building a web app would be easier for an existing website because you could us the same content and have one management site. I am all for that. I want to find out if any of you have done this using MOdx Revolution and I wanted to get some of your opinions and option on how you approached this?

    I have been reading up on Zurb Foundation for apps. I use the foundation in a few of my sites, so I thought that I might try to use it to build the app.

    Thanks for any insights

    This question has been answered by sottwell. See the first response.

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      sottwell Reply #2, 10 years, 5 months ago
      MODX is a CMF as well as a CMS, with its ORB xPDO and the core API it's an excellent choice for the framework on which to build web apps. There is no restriction whatsoever on what Javascript you use; the MODX Manager is built using ExtJS, but the front-end template is just an HTML document with MODX tags for the dynamic parts. There are even API functions to insert HTML, Javascript or CSS into a template on a page-by-page basis.
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        wholein1 Reply #3, 10 years, 5 months ago
        Thank you Susan. Do you know of any tutorials or sites that can help me. I believe I am going to try to integrate Foundation Framework app with Modx Revolution which I already use with some of my websites.

        Thanks

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          sottwell Reply #4, 10 years, 5 months ago
          There are several Foundation-based themes available.
          https://modx.com/extras/package/flexibility5
          https://modx.com/extras/package/foundation.theme
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            sottwell Reply #5, 10 years, 5 months ago
            MODX in no way restricts your Javascript or CSS, and a MODX template is just an HTML document with the dynamic parts replaced with MODX tags. So you can do anything you want for the UI, and the API will simplify your PHP back-end code. There are a number of ways of working with custom data.

            You might be interested in modx.pro's AJAX utility snippets, I find them very useful.
            http://docs.modx.pro/components/ajaxsnippet
            http://docs.modx.pro/components/ajaxform

            Their docs are in Russian, but Google Translate does a reasonable job of translating the pages.

            Depending on what kind of app you want, there may well be an add-on already available that you could use at least for the base of it.
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