Modx 9.7 suggestions

Quote from: gspark at Jun 11, 2007, 02:20 PM

Since modx 9.7 will have the capability for one modx install to rule them all, would there be any feature to import other modx databases ie, content, folders, etc so they are all merged into one modx db ?

Yes, transport packages will be able to export data and files from any deployment to any other; of course depending on your specific needs, it may be better to isolate sites to specific databases vs. combining them all. Think of the new MODx architecture as three-or-more-pronged: the core code or framework, one or more ’mgr’ (content management) contexts for administration, and one or more regular ’web’ contexts. You could have one framework, with one database and one manager to administrate all your web contexts, or you could have one framework, with multiple databases and multiple managers to admin each web context individually, just to name two possible usage scenarios; many more will be possible.

Quote from: olafmol at Jun 11, 2007, 02:41 PM

sounds good, but how realistic is this roadmap? ie how much time will it take to implement all these functionality? maybe it’s a better idea to focus on a subset of these functions and include these in 0.9.7 and try to aim to release this version in about 6 months from now?
further, the biggest 2 ommisions to lift MODx to the next level that i see are versioning/revisions, and a good documentation.

Right now, the only things left to implement from the 0.9.7 roadmap, though not trivial by any means, are the Transport Packaging (in progress), the actual Add-On Content Packs to be installed via the new installer (which will be put together when the Transport Packaging is done), the new Upgrade processes (which will feature at least partially-automated tag and code migration tools), and a few new interfaces/interface changes left in the manager to handle Contexts and few other new/changed features.

Versioning is slated for 1.0 and is dependent on some significant changes to the MODx relational model and schema-change management services that will be added to xPDO (i.e. detect changes to database tables and automatically update table structures/migrate affected data).

Good documentation, though there will be a much better foundation to start with from the code/framework perspective, will simply take time and commitment from more than myself once 0.9.7 is available for general preview.

Hmmm... I see the roadmap, but no dates. Could you gives some possible *hints* when 0.9.7 might take off ? (pretty please ? ). I’m really anxious about it, just like a little child .

Quote from: Geo88 at Jun 11, 2007, 05:23 PM

Hmmm... I see the roadmap, but no dates. Could you gives some possible *hints* when 0.9.7 might take off ? (pretty please ? ). I’m really anxious about it, just like a little child .

Refer to http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,15601.msg100575.html#msg100575

Thanks for the answers!
How many developers are working on the MODx core right now?

Olaf

Hello,

I haven’t see anything about this in the roadmap but, could someone tell me if the 0.9.7 will integrate mbstring functions for all strings management ?
I’ve seen that php6 will be in utf8 and sites in utf8 with 7bits functions (ie:strlen), non-ascii chars are replaced with "?" chars or won’t work.

0.9.7 looks awesome, I hope to have a beta soon

@ olafmol:

How many developers are working on the MODx core right now?

Interesting question - I found the answer ;-)

http://modxcms.com/modx-team.html
Ehre wem Ehre gebührt.

What about an e-commerce solution? Or at least a plugin / snippet / chunk / etc..
I’ve seen a lot of people asking about it, and I myself am VERY interested as well. I wish I was more talented and fluent with PHP / MySQL as I would help, but I’m still learning

Any chance of seeing this integrated?

Thanks,

Brad

Question for MODx core developers...

in the new version 0.9.7 which wysiwyg editors will be integrated? Will there be also Xstandard?

Quote from: B-RaD at Jun 19, 2007, 02:51 PM

What about an e-commerce solution? Or at least a plugin / snippet / chunk / etc..
I’ve seen a lot of people asking about it, and I myself am VERY interested as well. I wish I was more talented and fluent with PHP / MySQL as I would help, but I’m still learning

Any chance of seeing this integrated?

Thanks,

Brad

Not as a core component, though anyone is free to make an add-on available for such needs. Foxycart and shopX are two such options right now.

in the new version 0.9.7 which wysiwyg editors will be integrated? Will there be also Xstandard?

Tiny MCE and FCKeditor plugins are available, and should continue to function. I don’t think you’ll see Xstandard in the immediate future, as it works differently from those two I believe. If this is no longer true then please let me know! (replacing textareas in Tiny/FCK)

1.
integration of this baby http://codepress.org/ at any edit pages which are not with tinymce for text
this would easy on users with theming and editing php, js, css and html

it could be even taken to step where modX’s API is highlighted and so on.

2.
main problems i faced with modx are complexity of framework (let’s say it’s even illogical) and lack of documentation, i’ve heard you gonna change some stuff in 0.97 but you need to change much in order to claim users starting with online support and much more how-to’s.
I do understand MODx is a framework and CMS hybrid but still, anyone who familiar with frameworks will find hard understand yours. It’s like Ditto does all and hell knows how.


hope it helps, i tried my best to create first complex website with MODx so afterward that i can create video tutorials how-to for other users but i failed to create a website with it, even simple blog had lots of problems to face.