Newbie Orientation

I am a PHP programmer with some measure of expertise in another CMS that starts with ’Dru’ and ends with ’pal.’ I am now interesting in trying MODx b/c the reviews are good and the energy here looks very positive.

The Overviews that I finding are too high level for me but the detailed doc pages seem too low level. I am trying to get a handle on the basic concepts. I see that there are or were "modules" but they’re being replaced by "snippets." Then we have Add-Ons and Core Extensions but it’s not clear what those are.

Seems that Add-Ons are "modules" which are now going to be "snippets" but I’m not 100% sure about that.

Core Extensions it seems may be somewhat irrelevant because I don’t see any anyway.

I found this:

The system architecture guide from 0.9.5 to 1.0 will not be the same from a details perspective. It will actually be totally object oriented and abstracted, and very lightweight. The basic concepts and "elements" and "resources" available will actually be reduced in number, but greatly increased in flexibility as well. The code base should take a huge drop in size too.

And so it seems that perhaps I should start with the Revolution version now b/c it’s anyway the wave of the future?

The main question is where can I get an overview of MODx treats content, categories and functionality? In particular if someone knows the basic concepts of Drupal and can tell me must unlearned and what does have a parallel concept here, it would get me started on the right track.

I basically need a definition of the phrase

basic concepts and "elements" and "resources"

Any info for a newbie is appreciated.

Thank you!

Welcome!

Try these:

www.sottwell.com
http://bobsguides.com/MODx.html
http://nettuts.com/tutorials/other/working-with-a-content-management-framework-modx/

Lots of other info presented on this forum but I would start here...

Max

Great overview here in terms of various bits working together but not heavy on the PHP end:
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/working-with-a-content-management-framework-modx/

There’s also the new newbie series mentioned here: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,34498.0/topicseen.html

Thank you so much to those who responded. This is exactly what I was looking for!

Can I make two suggestions for the main MODx site?

1. Put this info on there somewhere, as in a "Getting Started" or "MODx Primer" page.

2. When signing in to the site, you can’t use the Enter key--you must use the mouse to press the button. Would be more usable if the Enter key could be enabled to submit the form.

Thank you.

This page was create a day or so ago. Will put a link to it in the learning section: http://modxcms.com/community/partners/books-training.html

Also check out this cool blog **shameless self promotion**

Quote from: rthrash at Apr 02, 2009, 12:11 PM

This page was create a day or so ago. Will put a link to it in the learning section: http://modxcms.com/community/partners/books-training.html

Useful page, thanks for the link

Yes, very nice, but it has a typo:

please user our partner form

should be "please use our partner form."

Thanks