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Editing template files

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    bjzaba Reply #1, 16 years, 10 months ago
    I’m new to modx, and I’m finding it fun to use. I’m glad I started learning it.

    Does anyone know if templates will be able to be edited externally through the file system in the future? Is that wishful thinking? I love modx so far, I’m just not keen on the clunky copy-paste thing. I guess I’ve gotten used to using coda’s inbuilt ftp to edit my wordpress templates. Not being developer, I don’t know whether this is a fundamental way of how modx is written.
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      anonymized-26931 Reply #2, 16 years, 10 months ago
      Hi bjzaba,

      welcome to MODx smiley
      see here -> http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,40053.msg241935.html#msg241935
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        bjzaba Reply #3, 16 years, 10 months ago
        Oh nice - it doesn’t fulfil my wish for external template files, but it’ll do the job. Probably isn’t on the devs’ list of priorities.

        Thanks mate!
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          anonymized-26931 Reply #4, 16 years, 10 months ago
          it doesn’t fulfil my wish for external template files, but it’ll do the job. Probably isn’t on the devs’ list of priorities.
          does this? smiley Modxfs -> http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,40916.0.html
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            bjzaba Reply #5, 16 years, 10 months ago
            Thanks again. Looks a little scary though. I think I might stick with the solution you suggested. wink
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              bjzaba Reply #6, 16 years, 10 months ago
              Ugh - getting an error when I I try to include the template. I seem to be getting some extra quotation marks:

              « MODx Parse Error »

MODx encountered the following error while attempting to parse the requested resource:
« PHP Parse Error »
 
PHP error debug
  Error:	include(assets/templates/'960/content.html') [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory	 
  Error type/ Nr.:	Warning - 2	 
  File:	/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/modxTest/manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php(770) : eval()'d code	 
  Line:	9	 
 
Parser timing
  MySQL:	0.0017 s	(4 Requests)
  PHP:	0.0240 s	 
  Total:	0.0256 s


              I’m pretty sure I copied the code exactly:



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                anonymized-26931 Reply #7, 16 years, 10 months ago
                use backticks ` instead of high commas ’ in your snippet call
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                  bjzaba Reply #8, 16 years, 10 months ago
                  Hah! rolleyes

                  It’s always the little things. Is it just a snippet thing - like & instead of $?