Rookie Question...

Hi,

I’m currently designing a website for my personal business to sell t-shirts. For now I’m using FoxyCart, and the interface is perfect for me, but the store’s inventory is growthing fast so I need to use a Database to manage all the items for my store.

Reading some pages I found MODx, i think it just the CMS I need, but I have a couple of question that hopefully you could help me with:
- The website design is complete, so could I use MODx to only manage the inventory of the store on the back-end????
- The website design must be develop in MODx, or MODx could be integrated with my current design?
- Use MODx require some programming knowledge?
- How can I test MODx to create a Database of items?

Thanks you Very Much in advance.

Best Regards,
Sal.

- The website design is complete, so could I use MODx to only manage the inventory of the store on the back-end?Huh

Not sure what you mean, but I would recommend using MODx for the entire site and have it all in one place. This way you could use the MODx resources on the site as well.

- The website design must be develop in MODx, or MODx could be integrated with my current design?

MODx is very easy to integrate with any existing design. Basically it is just a matter of adjuting the paths to accomodate the MODx structure and including the placeholders for you dynamic content.

- Use MODx require some programming knowledge?

No, it is not required. many non-programmers use MODx and make it do some cool stuff. However, a little php knowledge will help you extend on what is already available.

- How can I test MODx to create a Database of items?

I would download MODx and install on a local server and just play with it.

Foxy-cart and MODx are good companion applications and play very well together. There is actually a case profile on the modx site with the creator of Foxy.

Thanks dev_cw,

Downloading MODx right now...

Sal

Hi to all,

After some time checking MODx, the Framework is pretty awesome and very neat. But I could not find what I am looking for in the first place... Inventory Management.

For now, I only need an easy way to create a database for products and link them to my website.

I also read some tutorials and docs but could not find any help.

Anyone could Help please?!?. Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

MODx is not an inventory management system, it is a content management system. The way we use it for a site like yours is to create a document for each item. Just turn your thinking about this from "how to store my products" to "how to display my products", which is ultimately what your intention is. The storage will take care of itself.

So you would create an HTML template for the web pages that will display your items, then create documents that will represent the web pages for each item, using that template. The document will have all of the information relating to a given item, using the various existing fields and Template Variables for custom fields. This will also have the effect of storing your inventory in the database, but display-centric rather than raw inventory-centric. The Ditto snippet would be used to list items in a catalog. Wayfinder can also be used to display lists of items although it is primarily used for menu structures; while AjaxSearch would allow search capabilities.

No matter what program you use to store your inventory, you’ll need some way to access that storage and display the items. MODx offers both functions in one easy package.

Thanks a lot sottwell,

As you said I was looking it with a wrong angle...