snippet or module repository ?

is there somewhere a categorized repository of available modules and snippets and else ?

something much more searchable than pages of forums threads ...

why not set up a subsite like "MODxForge" but simpler than all the mamboforge likes out there ..

Sorry ... we are working on it and next to the 0.9.1 pending release that’s in internal testing, it’s our top priority.

many thanks, I am(and others will be) delighted it’s one of your top priority.

I think that’s what drives and build a good community of newbies : ease of access to customizations and clear explanation of what does what.

I just hope i had the time to help, but my job takes a good energy and time out of me. If I found out a way to do real multi-lingual content management with MODx, it may be the foundation of our company new site. I’ll investigate what the dedicated forum category says about this.

(Real simple multi-lingual content management is when the same content item (meaning, same id) can have multiple localized versions ; and one single (session) variable is sufficient to say the page should be displayed in this or that language.)
Gosh it’s hard to find a cms ready for that !

The multilingual sites are a key consideration for 0.9.5... a virtual requirement! Do you have any experience or can you point us to a successful resource for a "good example"?

I went with cookies instead of sessions, because most sites are configured for the session to time-out after about 20 minutes. Of course, all this does is send the user back to the "default" language, but it’s certainly annoying.

It just occured to me that you could have a plugin to get the language variable and replace the [*content*] with a document in an appropriate language...actually, probably a TV would be better, using @DOCUMENT bindings. But it would still have to have documents of translated material, so I guess there really wouldn’t be such an advantage over using the document structure (Tree) itself, and controlling the menu from there, as I did.

The biggest issue is still having snippets that generate text output using variables or something instead of hard-coded text strings.

Quote from: rthrash at Dec 01, 2005, 12:29 AM

Do you have any experience or can you point us to a successful resource for a "good example"?

Drupal’s I18n module goes in the right direction, but requires a big patch to its data model and is still approximative ;

AWF has multilingual content versioning in its core ( you can see it in the first screenshot on their homepage : a dropdown on the "edit content" page lets you choose which language of your article you’re editing ). But AWF lacks the level of customization (modules, snippets, ...) of MODx.

I’ll watch the code and data model behind AWF and grab good ideas.

Quote from: akamarvin at Dec 01, 2005, 08:20 AM

AWF has multilingual content versioning in his core ( you can see it in the first screenshot on their homepage : a dropdown on the "edit content" page lets you choose which language of your article you’re editing ). But AWF lacks the level of customization (modules, snippets, ...) of MODx.

Hmmm, I was thinking earlier this evening about how we might address both localization and versioning with the same approach. Definitely some good ideas here. Thanks for the info.