A few questions - please help

Hey all I need some help as im new to modx

1. does the modx cms have rss feeds? if so how can I get
the url to them so I can add rss icon to the website.

2. Login form, am I able to edit it? if so where are the
files?

3. Is there a way for the client to upload images to edit?
or some kind of plugin?

Best Regards,
Matt

Are you referring to providing the rss feed from your own content? If so, that’s one of Ditto’s capabilities. Just use &format=`rss`. Link to the document ID with the Ditto call for your feed.

http://ditto.modxcms.com/files/assets/snippets/ditto/formats/rss-format-inc-php.html

Hey sottwell,

Thanks for the reply but what is "Ditto"? and can you give me an
example of were and how it should be written up.

Best Regards,
Matthew

Ditto is a snippet that is included with your installation of MODx. It’s used for blog and news listings, or anything else that you want a list of summaries and links for.

Create a resource (document), to be the container for your rss items. Now add resources as children to that, one for each row in your feed.

On the parent document, use a Ditto snippet call:

Where the `xx` is the document ID of the parent resource (you can leave it out, since the Ditto call is on the parent resource).

That’s all. Link to that parent resource for your feed. You can take a look at my site’s feed; log in to my manager as guest - guestuser, then take a look at the "Modx From the Inside" resource (#49) at the bottom of the Resource Tree. It is set to make a feed from my "chapters" of the MODx From the Inside book I’m slowly writing.

If you take a look at the "inside" template (Elements -> Manage Elements, Templates tab) you’ll see the line


That’s all that is needed to create a feed.

Of course, you can customize the feed if you like... http://ditto.modxcms.com/tutorials/custom-rss-feed.html

Thank you so much for your help, I will take a look a little later.

Do you know how to do the mod_rewrite? I tried to do it but get a page
can not be found error.

No difference in the .htaccess file; it’s just a normal page like any other; MODx will generate the proper URL for it.