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BobRay,

Thanks for those newbie citations. I’d never heard of the last two in your list.

Quote from: halfnium at Jun 07, 2010, 01:22 PM

BobRay,

Thanks for those newbie citations. I’d never heard of the last two in your list.

I just Googled: modx beginners

Hi there.. I just instaled the latest Evo version but I seem to be having a problem. I try to login but it always goes back to the login page! Is that normal.. ??’ how can I fix this?? I read about your cms and it seems interesting... hope to be able to use it and find out more..


Thnaks a million! )))

My development team taught me how to add webpages so that I can control the blog on my site. Now I would like to add an image to a specific blog. I noticed that if it is on a url I can put that in however it is not sitting on a url anywhere. I have the jpg file, or tiff. I have looked through the community and haven’t been able to find an entry for this process. I am hopeful that someone can help...it really is a nice picture

Dear ptbh,

Your question breaks into two. The first is about referring to a picture on any Web page, no matter whether a content manager (e.g. MODx) is involved in composing the page for you. The second is how to use MODx to make that convenient to do whenever you desire, and without "breaking" your site.

The answer to the first question is to study use of the tag. HERE is a nice place to start. It explains the tag and offers some examples you can try. A Google search will uncover many such citations.

The answer to the second is to study how you can guide MODx to dynamically assemble pages for you. In particular, your Web site designer might build a template variable for an image into the template for your blog entries. Or, if you want to include an image just once, your designer might show you how to use the TinyMCE editor’s "Insert / edit image" button to create and position a reference to your image, using that "img" tag, within a specific blog entry.

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The fun of this Web stuff is that you can try out anything imaginable for free at zero risk, and you can skim the surface or dig as deeply into the technology as you want. You can begin by typing some tags into a text file, then asking your browser to interpret them before your very eyes. You can progress to applying a programming language (e.g. PHP) to creation of those tags. You can further use the programming language to query and/or update a database (e.g. one based on MySQL). You can even simulate a Web site hosting service on your own desktop, to privately practice your Web work (using perhaps WampServer or XAMPP).

Having created Web sites for a while, you will find yourself doing certain things over and over, such as creating menus of links to facilitate clicking from one page to another, or formatting a bunch of items (blog entries, maybe?) exactly the same way, again and again. (Tedious!) Then you will look for help in mechanizing the routine stuff, so that you can concentrate on the valuable content instead of fiddling with tags and programming. That is where MODx and related content managers come into the picture. All content managers are built upon the basics described in the previous paragraph, so it is helpful to have some feeling for those basics as you use MODx.

Have fun with it!

erased! problem understood

Hi!

Totally new to MODx and tried to install it on my local wamp server. However, when I test it (http://localhost/test), I get a page showing “Index of/test” with 2 files viz. “Parent Directory” and “modx-1.0.4″ and only if I open the latter, I reach the installation screen and the url is now reading “http://localhost/test/modx-1.0.4″

Have I unzipped my MODx installation into the wrong folder (wamp/www/test)?

Would appreciate a reply because I don’t want to proceed further and end up creating the entire site in “localhost/test/modx-1.0.4″ rather than “localhost/test”

Thanks in advance for all your help

It doesn’t really matter, but yes, the index.php file and the assets and manager folder should be in the test folder if that’s where you want it to run from.

Hi! Susan,

Thanks for your tip. I opened my wamp/www/test/modx-1.0.4 folder to try and move the index.php file one level up to the "test" folder as you had suggested, but it’s not there.

Instead, there are 2 files viz. index.php and index-ajax.php, both of which point to an expired 30 days Adobe Creative Suite 5 Trial page asking for a serial # (can’t figure out how that got in there). So, what next?

Funny thing is, that index.php you’re talking about somehow does open up after I point my browser to "http://localhost/test/modx-1.0.4"

But I want everything to work on my test site, which is "http://localhost/test"

There should be an index.php file, index-ajax.php, ht.access, and sample-robots.txt files, as well as the assets and manager folders. Just move them into the test folder. You can open the index.php file in any text editor just to make sure it’s the right one.

Or just delete the whole business, and extract the zip file into the web root, then rename the modx-1.0.4 folder to test.