user login help

after making a resource why do i have this appearing in the right column :Chunk ’FormLogin’ not found
How do I enable the resource for users to login?

You’ll need a chunk (Elements->Manage elements, the Chunks tab) with the HTML for the login form. That chunk needs to be named EXACTLY the same as the snippet call’s parameter. If it says &tpl=`FormLogin`, then the chunk must be named FormLogin.

thank you for your quick reply, i just installed modx and do not know anything about it but have searched for how to’s so im learning slowly but this program is exactly what i need.

Is there an area that has a step by step guide to setup a resource and how and what to do with the chunk html and setting up a user to get to that resource?

I presume you are using the default installed WebLogin system. This means you’ll have a snippet [!WebLogin!] where you want the login form to appear. If you don’t want to use the default login/logout form, you’ll need to specify a chunk to use as a mini-template for WebLogin to use (we call these "tpls" to keep them from getting confused with the main site template). What I always do in cases like that is to create a new chunk, and copy the default tpl (in this case, from the end of the assets/snippets/weblogin/weblogin.inc.php file). Then I edit the chunk until I get the layout I want for my page. As I mentioned, the chunk name has to be the same as the &tpl parameter in the snippet call:


Even if you’re using WebLoginPE, the principle is the same as far as the login form tpl goes.

Then you can set up the actual permissions/security for the pages. See http://bobsguides.com/permissions.html for an excellent discussion on this.