MODx Revolution 2.0.0 (formerly MODx 0.9.7)

Revolution = 097 ... a new alpha of which was recently released, and another of which should be out in the near future.

Don’t mean to dig up an old thread, just wanted to know how that alpha was coming along and when we could expect a beta.

Would love to help test this out...

Quote from: betoranaldi at Sep 29, 2008, 02:27 PM

Don’t mean to dig up an old thread, just wanted to know how that alpha was coming along and when we could expect a beta.

Would love to help test this out...

Should have a final alpha release this week and all attention will be moving to preparing for beta.

Yipee. Alpha3 is really nice. Beta coming is good news.

woohoo. been watching the svn updates and you guys are kickin @ss! congrats you genius’

Hm, installed the last one (alpha 6), here my thoughts:

1. please let the installer check the folder rights, otherwise the installation fails aund ends up with emty pages
2. I dont like the table-style for the configuration in the backend (for example). Its a usabilitymess. Is this still alpha or will you release the final with this cheap UI-Tables for configuration?

The rest looks great!

Quote from: flughund at Dec 22, 2008, 12:12 PM

1. please let the installer check the folder rights, otherwise the installation fails aund ends up with emty pages

Noted. Can you post this into JIRA?

2. I dont like the table-style for the configuration in the backend (for example). Its a usabilitymess. Is this still alpha or will you release the final with this cheap UI-Tables for configuration?

If someone has an idea for a modular, pagination-able structure that supports sorting, dynamic in-place field editing, area-grouping, key/namespace filtering, and custom field and system setting rendering - that is better than this - then we’d be all ears.

1. ok posted to JIRA (please don’t hit me, I’m not a programmer)
2. rthrash has already asked me for some better ideas. maybe I’ll have time for a mockup in this chistmas-holydays...

I’m just wondering why MODx Revolution isn’t being written in PHP 5. Is there any particular reason for this?

Quote from: aspir at Jan 06, 2009, 11:50 AM

I’m just wondering why MODx Revolution isn’t being written in PHP 5. Is there any particular reason for this?

It is being written to take advantage of many PHP 5 features (like PDO) without excluding our existing community which still includes a surprisingly large number of PHP 4 users, many of which will have more than a little difficulty adapting to the new object-oriented paradigm. It was also started 3 years ago, when PHP 4 was no yet quite so taboo.

xPDO 2.0 will follow xPDO 1.0/MODx Revolution 2.0 and is being targeted at PHP 5.2+ (maybe 5.3+). It will be E_STRICT compliant. Once xPDO 2.0 is released, a future release of MODx will also follow this path, providing optimized experiences for adopters of the latest PHP releases without much change from the add-on developer’s perspective (other than encouraging the use of exception handling and other features specific to various releases of PHP 5).

We could have chosen to go directly to PHP 5 and probably would have if we thought it was going to take this long to get to release, but I am confident it was the right decision and will prevent unnecessary exclusion of potential MODx adopters while we patiently observe and learn from the good and bad experiences the framework developers that have targeted PHP 5 specific features are already dealing with.