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Is it like installing a extension within joomla or do i have to do something else aswell

Quote from: lucas at Aug 15, 2011, 02:57 PM

Quote from: boogaard at Aug 15, 2011, 02:36 PM

What options do i have with regard to extensions ? Are they available for free, can you maybe give a website?

http://modx.com/extras/

If you’re using Revolution, you can install any compatible extras from within the manager - System > Package Management

Thanks i guess i overlooked it!

A newbiew here, hope I am welcome in this forum.Thanks

Hi, a newbie here

I have been reading and learning about MODX for 3 days, and so far i love it.

I'm doing a website for a client and wanted to do it with MODx, so i installed it,
did some tutorials, and i have done the homepage with 2 TVs and getResources to make some news, and other 3 simple pages.

Now i have 2 doubts:
1.- In my homepage i have the latest news, so to get the getResouces snippet to work i had to make my homepage a container, and then a news container as a child.. i don't want that structure, how can i call a resource from another document, not necessarily a child?
2.- I need to do a products catalog, do you know if there's an extra for that, or a tutorial???

Thanks!

2.-

how can i call a resource from another document, not necessarily a child?

Use one of the parameters &parents or &resources. See
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/getResources#getResources-SelectionProperties

Quote from: ottogal at Aug 22, 2011, 11:08 PM

how can i call a resource from another document, not necessarily a child?

Use one of the parameters &parents or &resources. See
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/getResources#getResources-SelectionProperties

Thanks! i will try that, do you know how can i make a product catalogue? maybe i can use getResources too right?

Yes, If you want to make a catalogue, you should use getResources. Create a parent folder, put all catalogue items in that and then set that as the parent folder in your getr call.

Best regards,
William

Definitively is it MODX or MODx What is the correct capitalization of MODx|MODX ?

It's definitely MODX (it used to be MODx).

Need help choosing a CMS.

I am looking for a CMS that will allow me to convert an existing site over from plain html to CMS and keep all of my original CMS.

The reason I want to convert my existing site over to CMS is that I want to allow people to sign up and create their own customized version of my existing site.

For example:
If my site is www.mysite.com and Bob signs up, his page would be www.mysite.com/bob

www.mysite.com/bob would look just like www.mysite.com except bob could add links to his favorite websites

I have been reading some articles and such and MODX seems to come up often as a CMS that will allow me to retain my original HTML. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how useful MODX would be for the above explained application, basically automated generation of 1 page with each user having the ability to modify it slightly.

Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you