still confused

I may be over analyzing this but I want to make sure I understand the structure of a website in MODx. The site I’m moving http://www.lynnarts.org over is built using PHP. The pages are called using the GET function (if(array_key_exists($_GET[’page’], $pages))). There are categories for each section of the website (About - Events- Classes and so on. Each category has sub pages. This is done with include() files. My question is would I use these now as snippets/ chunks? I hope I’m making sense with this question

I took a look at your site and my suggestion for you is to try and think on a higher abstraction level. Your web site is made of pages and the pages are divided into categories, thats what you need to get into MODx.

The implementation details of your old site’s navigation, GET function, Arrays, includes etc. are really of little consequence, MODx has its own tools for this, you do not need to build everything from scratch.

Take things step by step and start with the basics. Build the document tree using container documents for categories. Built templates and learn to use the Wayfinder snippet to create the sites navigation. Using these simple methods you can probably replicate 95% of your old sites functionality, only then when you have this part up and running you might need to worry about custom snippets in order to complete the extra 5%.

Thank you - that sounds like good advice. I will start doing as you suggested and see how far I can get.

Quote from: kevinritt at May 05, 2009, 10:26 AM

Thank you - that sounds like good advice. I will start doing as you suggested and see how far I can get.

See if this helps: http://bobsguides.com/porting-your-site-to-modx.html

There’s also a nice video tutorial here: http://www.tipsfor.us/2009/04/30/creating-templates-in-modx-part-i-part-iv-in-the-series/

If you’re interested in more detail as to what’s going on under the hood, I’ve got a few articles up. http://www.sottwell.com/modx-from-the-inside.html

Thank you to all