Giving modx a chance?

Hi area7,

What to do? Do I have to re-install

no - see here: http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/CAPTCHA

hope that helps

well........ lol.... I’ve been at it for quite a while now - I read this http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/revolution/Explanation+of+Directory+Structure
and assumed that was information on phpmyadmin and started playing with some settings in there for captcha. That didn’t work. Also I am completely locked out having 3 failed logins with the captcha code logging into the manager, so I deleted the admin key entry for modx_active_users (Deleted Admin & IP addy--- Probably gunna be sorry I did that), modx_event_log, modx_manager_log.

Before anybody replied I did that. Searched google - nothing except installing 2 extra components like the link you gave me just now. (Talked to my hosting support and they wern’t being cooperative) Well im still locked out - get an internal server error 500 - I can use an annonymous proxy and see the site so I know for a fact that it’s my IP thats locked. How much more frustrating can this get????? I only spent 7 hours reading and doing tutorials today and got a template up with css - then the last 6 hours trying to figure out the above. Call it shitty luck i guess.

http://bobsguides.com/modx-newbie-faq.html

Check out the Q: near the bottom about being locked out / forgetting the password. Be sure to set blocked, blockeduntil, blockedafter, and failedlogincount to 0 in the modx_user_attributes table.

Then set the password to 25d55ad283aa400af464c76d713c07ad in the modx_manager_users table (modx_users for Revo), giving you a password of 12345678.

And have we been watching Spaceballs? Actually, a friend of mine who has never seen the movie had his Hotmail account using that password. I nearly died laughing

Anyway, in phpMyAdmin, you can set the password in the manager_users table to whatever you want, then from the "Function" drop-down select MD5.

Quote from: sottwell at Aug 29, 2009, 03:03 AM

And have we been watching Spaceballs? Actually, a friend of mine who has never seen the movie had his Hotmail account using that password. I nearly died laughing

I haven’t seen it for years and have no memory of the password thing. Sorry to disappoint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K95SXe3pZoY

Quote from: sottwell at Aug 29, 2009, 03:12 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K95SXe3pZoY

LOL. Thanks.

Go into your database via phpMyAdmin and change the system_settings value for use_captcha to 0

Whew! Whatever I did till 3am worked! Got some sleep and finally am able to start templating and more tutorials - YOu guys have been great! RIP John Candy

Just found your post below and I have to say that it was very encouraging. I’m just getting started with ModX, love what I see so far, but am a little worried about my lack of php knowledge. I’m a designer, not a programmer, but still want to give my clients the best, most functional site I can.

Thanks!

Quote from: Pete at Aug 17, 2009, 09:46 AM

Not to sound too sarcastic, but it does make me wonder how a MODx install with example site installed can be called "jibberish" from someone with "proficient" coding knowledge. Sorry, those were the two things that really clashed for me in the above thread.

There are literally only about 5-10 non-standard HTML chunk/snippet calls in the default minimal template. The content one is called "content", the site_url one is called "site_url" etc. Even if you fiddle with the template then compare the finished page source in FF/IE with the template source in the MODx manager it should be pretty easy to work out what the less-obvious bits of code in the template are doing and slot your own template in in no time.

I remember it looking daunting when I first started with it, but I’m sure I had a site up inside of a week, even though I hadn’t fiddled with the template much. Again, some people "get it" easier than others as has been mentioned here already.

8 days getting nowhere on something that has a wealth of documentation as linked to in this thread seems most odd to me though personally.

With regards to actually getting a site up - I can do a relaively easy, small site in a long day now. That’s 6 hours designing a completely new layout in Photoshop, 3 hours cutting it up and coding the HTML template in Dreamweaver (I usually spend an hour faffing because of IE6 breaking my template), 10 minutes (if that) to get that template into MODx with all the relevant MODx tags in the right places and, for a small site where I’ve been supplied with the text and images, maybe another hour to put in 5-6 pages or so including any image resizing/placing. Oh, and the MODx install with the plugins/snippets I usually use takes about 20 mins tops.

Call it 11 hours total, with just 2 of those devoted to actually touching MODx

These would be brochure-type sites mind you with a handful of pages, a contact form and maybe a nice integrated Google/Microsoft map for getting directions to a business using code I’ve put together previously. There is one I’ve done that contains an awful lot of custom snippets and so forth that I’ve been working on for months (during the evenings), but as it’s a VERY dynamic site with several hundred thousand hits a month and I’m finding the work fun and it’s well worth the time. Also worth noting that the only other way I could have built it was using plain PHP and doing everything from scratch, so if we say I’ve been working on this one for 3 months or so off and on in my evenings, without MODx it would’ve been easily closer to 6-9 months or probably even more.

All that said, it’s definitely different strokes for different folks, but if you know HTML fairly well and have dabbled in a programming language before then it shouldn’t be rocket science. Still a potentially steep learning curve depending on what you’ve used previously I’ll admit, but not as steep as becoming a rocket scientist

It’s also worth noting that MODx works best (IMO) as a framework to build on. Those looking for lots of built-in modules here may be perplexed with MODx as they’re (possibly) expecting something like Joomla where you have a "simple" (well I found more than a few elements most counter-intuitive if I’m honest) GUI but lot of bloat added in by default and are restricted quite a lot of the time to how those modules work, where as MODx is something you can hand-craft precisely to the customer’s specs with the only limitation being your own coding knowledge and imagination. I’ve yet to run into a stumbling block with MODx which I couldn’t code my way through from a mixture of tutorials and forum topics or by expanding my own coding knowledge (usually my stumbling blocks are self-imposed silliness anyway ).

To all potential new users: If you get some time to look at it where you’re not pressured by pending jobs then it’s definitely worth learning.