[Solved]PHx - Syntax issues

Hey Guys,
I am brand new to MODx - Not to web design world or PHP / Java / Css / Etc. though.
And I must say I am very interested in this CMS. I think that I can be up to speed in the next 5-6 hours, and republish a site, by the end of the weekend. Which is absolutely amazing to me. It seems to offer a lot of solutions where CMS fall short in my opinion.

But enough on that, I have a couple of questions about PHx - And perhaps a few more examples / demos would help if any one can point me in the correct direction.

But for now on the Wiki I plugged in the :love
But when I call it [+phx:love+]
I get this result - &_PHX_INTERNAL_& because I love MODx

Debug I get =
51 [13:33:41] MODx / PHx placeholder variable: phx
52 [13:33:41] |--- Input = ’&_PHX_INTERNAL_&’
53 [13:33:41] |--- Modifier = ’love’
54 [13:33:41] |--- DB -> Custom Modifier
55 [13:33:41] |--- Output = ’&_PHX_INTERNAL_& because I love MODx’

But if I take out phx call, then I get nothing.
So can anyone help me out here.

Are you trying to learn how to create a Custom Modifier? If so look at the other user contributed custom modifiers here: http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/PHx/CustomModifiers

If you have more questions, please let us know.

Thanks for your reply, and seeing the custom modifiers is great. But the issue is
when I enter [+phx:love+] as in the example on the wiki I get - &_PHX_INTERNAL_& because I love MODx

See here on the wiki -
http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/PHx

So I don’t get it what am I doing wrong?

1) Check double php tag endings in custom modifier?

2) If no PHx works
Try changing the plugin to use this line instead:

And make sure that folder is uploaded correct

I’m not sure. But it looks correct. >:(

You’ll want to apply the custom :love modifier (implemented in the phx:love snippet you created) to an actual variable, not as [+phx:love+]. IOW, something like this would append the string to your pagetitle:

The string ’phx’ is, as your output indicates, an internal mechanism of PHx, and meaningless as a placeholder in this case.

Cool that works. Thanks! I get it now.
I was using [++] instead of [**]
So for whatever reason [**] works fine for me.

Quote from: tspore at May 10, 2009, 08:25 AM

I was using [++] instead of [**]
So for whatever reason [**] works fine for me.

It does work with placeholders, i.e. [++], as well as content/TV tags, i.e. [**], but you would have to use it with a placeholder besides [+phx+] since phx is not really a placeholder. If you had code in a snippet somewhere like this:

Then you could use: