Custom Content Types

Just imagine being able to turn your MODx documents into a Style Sheet, XML, PDF, Image, Excel or a Word document! Wouldn’t that be great?

Custom content types is another feature that I would like to propose for TP3 or TP4. It’s very ease to add and should not take much time at all. It’s also another step into what I would call (Active Document or Active Content). The Active Document idea will be demonstrated when we get into the TV2.0 stuff.

What do you think? Should this go in TP3 or TP4?

If it can be done right without significant delay, TP3.

Otherwise, TP4.

Cool stuff!

Quote from: rthrash at Jul 01, 2005, 12:47 PM

If it can be done right without significant delay, TP3.

Well here it is




See the whatnew.doc for all that has changed since July 01, 2005

* add custom content-types
* add blank template feature to document
* add site unavailable page
* remove manager/media/fckeditor (TP2 only)
* remove manager/media/tinymce
* remove manager/media/editor
* automatically check for duplicate document aliases
* have menu indexes at the same level increment automatically.
* add support "override" file feature. This will allow developers to override the support.inc.php by adding an override.support.inc.php file inside the manager/includes folder

Barring Hurricante interruptions (or hopefully before!) when might you commit this to SVN Raymond? This is awesome stuff!

Quote from: rthrash at Jul 07, 2005, 09:37 AM

Barring Hurricante interruptions (or hopefully before!) when might you commit this to SVN Raymond? This is awesome stuff!

I’m hoping this weekend. Have to resolve a few things at the so I don’t have my SVN branch from the PC I’m working on at the mo. But soon

Welcome back! Looking forward to the weekend.

Hi Raymond... quick scenario that we’d like to test now that Custom Content Types is in SVN.

How would I make a link on a page that causes the current page to be downloaded as a PDF file?

Thanks!

Quote from: rthrash at Jul 15, 2005, 11:07 AM

Hi Raymond... quick scenario that we’d like to test now that Custom Content Types is in SVN.

How would I make a link on a page that causes the current page to be downloaded as a PDF file?

Thanks!

you would have to add a snippet to the page that changes the content type and content disposition of the page to attachment.

For the snippet to do this it must detech a special url parameter (e.g. ?download=on) before it can change the content type to pdf. The snippet could also general a link back to the current page.