Edit templates outside of modx

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alexmglover Reply #1, 14 years, 7 months ago

Is there is a way to link to templates from outside of the modx admin panel. Maybe linking with something like an includes statement. The inability to use tabs in the modx admin interface really slows down my productivity as far as developing inside modx. Copying and pasting from an editor every time I make a change is tedious also.

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Paulp Reply #2, 14 years, 7 months ago

This Firefox plug in is great if you use Firefox

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,39090.msg235824.html#msg235824

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j_p Reply #3, 14 years, 7 months ago

If you want to use an external html file as a template you can create a snippet with the necessary include statement, and then put the snippet call in a MODX template.

I haven’t been using MODx for too long, so there may another way.

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cipa Reply #4, 14 years, 7 months ago

My templates look like

[[includeTemplate? &tpl=`business/awards-list.html`]]

Because I could not find the original post I will post the snippet code here

<?php
# Snippet to include template files from file system
# USAGE: [[includeTemplate? &tpl=`mytemplate/template.html`]]

if ( !isset($tpl) || $tpl== "" ) return "Missing Template file!";

$tpl = $base_path .'assets/templates/'.$tpl;
ob_start();
include($tpl);
return ob_get_clean();
?>

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alexmglover Reply #5, 14 years, 7 months ago

Quote from: cipa at Sep 18, 2009, 04:39 PM

My templates look like

[[includeTemplate? &tpl=`business/awards-list.html`]]

Because I could not find the original post I will post the snippet code here

<?php
# Snippet to include template files from file system
# USAGE: [[includeTemplate? &tpl=`mytemplate/template.html`]]

if ( !isset($tpl) || $tpl== "" ) return "Missing Template file!";

$tpl = $base_path .'assets/templates/'.$tpl;
ob_start();
include($tpl);
return ob_get_clean();
?>

What does this mean for using tv’s or chunks in your template?

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cipa Reply #6, 14 years, 7 months ago

Here is a an example of a template.html file

[[includeTemplate? &tpl=`site/head.html`]]

<body class="home">


<div id="homeW">
<div id="homeLeft">

	<div class="featured separator"><span>Featured Project:</span> [[GetField? &docid=`36` &field=`pagetitle`]]</div>
	<div class="featuredDesc separator">[[GetField? &docid=`36` &field=`content`]]</div>
    
    <div id="homeFpNav">
        <div id="extCtrlCarousel">
            [[Wayfinder? &startId=`36` &outerTpl=`fpExtCtrlOuterTpl` &rowTpl=`fpExtNavRowTpl` &level=`1`]]
        </div>
        <div class="linkTo"><a href="[~[[GetField? &docid=`36` &field=`linkTo`]]~]">View Project »</a></div>
    </div>
    
    
    <div id="fpContentProjects">
		<div class="fpPreviousPiece"></div>
		<div id="homeCarousel">
			<ul>
				[[Ditto? &tpl=`fpItems` &parents=`36`]]
			</ul>
		</div>
		<div class="fpNextPiece"></div>
	</div>	
	
</div>
<div id="homeRightW">
	<div id="homeRight">
		[*content*]
	</div>
</div>
</div>

<div id="menuWrapper">
	<div id="menu">
		[[Wayfinder? &startId=`0` &level=`1` &rowTpl=`mainMenuRowTpl` &titleOfLinks=`alias`]]
	</div>
</div>

</body>
</html>

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bwente Reply #7, 14 years, 7 months ago

MODxFS lets Unix users with FUSE mount MODx databases as filesystems. This means you can directly edit Chunks, Pages, Snippets, and Templates with your preferred HTML/PHP editor.

http://modxcms.com/extras/package/?package=292

Unfortunately the link is dead and I don’t think I could install on my shared hosting server.

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fixedmachine Reply #8, 14 years, 7 months ago

Thnx for that snippet. It’s really useful.

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To avoid surprises remember to clean your site cache after modifying your template

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mrhaw Reply #9, 14 years, 7 months ago

There is this hack --> http://modxcms.com/extras/package/73

Haven’t had the need for it yet...

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unleashed Reply #10, 14 years, 4 months ago

This works. However, I wasn’t naming my snippet correctly (discovered that while pouring over this post: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=42928.0).

One of my MAJOR complaints about Modx so far is that this functionality isn’t a part of the default system. I just don’t understand why you would have to go through all this just to be able to edit a file in your editor of choice. However, that said, every time I start to consider the other options (EE being the only one I’ve found that seems to compare), I think about the modx team and community. The modx team (especially rthrash) are super professional and nice (even when speaking of other CMS systems) in every post I’ve read. Modx has, in my opinion, a lot of shortcomings, but it’s a lot easier to stick with it when you genuinely like and trust the people developing it.