How Do I Put A Chunk Tag On A Page That Is Outside the MODX Folder?

Thanks, Bob. I'm going to dig in on that link now.

Update: I've got all the pages on my 1st MODx site in the MODx folder now and everything is working beautifully.

A Somewhat Related Question: I have another site that I built a number of years ago and have maintained regularly for my client, since. He emailed me last Friday and asked for a new page to be added to his site that he and his employees could add content to themselves.

Q: How do I go about using MODx to add an Admin Page (on a non-MODx web site) for my client to be able to edit content on just that one page? Can you point me to a tutorial, please?

Thanks!

PS: I sure hope your book arrives soon, Bob! In the meantime, I'm digging in on Mary's tutorials.

Alan

In Revolution, you can customize the Manager to limit what the user can do in the Manager and restrict them to pages in a certain Resource Group using the Security Permissions system.

If it's just a single page, it would probably be easier to use a front-end editor (e.g. NewsPublisher) and put a button on the page with the NpEditThisButton snippet (available in the NewsPublisher package and only visible to logged-in users if you do it right). The button will forward them to the NewsPublisher page where they can edit and save the page. Or you could create a Login page that forwarded them automatically to the NewsPublisher page on successful login.


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Thanks, Bob.

So, if I understand correctly, I would have to install MODx on their server and just implement the NewsPublisher package for that single page only.

The rest of the site pages would have absolutely no connection to MODx -- that's okay, right?

Also, should I install MODx in the root ... or in its own folder ... or doesn't it matter?

PS: Your book is arriving tomorrow! Hot dog!

Unfortunately, the user would have to log into MODX before using NewsPublisher, and NewsPublisher would save the page to the MODX DB, where it wouldn't do you much good. Also, installing MODX (which has thousands of files) just to run NewsPublisher would be serious overkill.

In the long run, I think you'd be happier if you converted the whole site to be a MODX site. Depending on the complexity of the site and how it's written, that might be much easier than trying to make NewsPublisher work on a non-MODX site. There's a section in the book on porting a site to MODX.



As an alternative, you could forget MODX and create your own front-end editing form using a WYSIWYG editor like Aloha or TinyMCE.

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It's a fairly simple site, Bob ... however, it *would* be a lot of work converting it over to MODX just to make that one page happen.

You said:

As an alternative, you could forget MODX and create your own front-end editing form using a WYSIWYG editor like Aloha or TinyMCE.

That sounds like a great alternative ... however, having never done that before, is there a tutorial that would walk me through the steps? Or a program I might acquire to do that with?

There's some documentation at the Aloha and TinyMCE sites on how to use them. I don't know of anything else.

Porting a site to MODX is not as big a job as you might think, unless the HTML is peppered with PHP code.

See this for a quick overview: http://bobsguides.com/porting-your-site-to-modx.html



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Thanks again, Bob. I was looking at the info on the Aloha site and it looks pretty simple! I'll look into it some more, and also the TinyMCE site ... and your link above, as well.

HEY! I got my copy of MODX: The Official Guide today and I have to tell you I am really impressed!!! You've done a wonderful job, man! I mean, I've only read the first chapter, but I am so pleased to see how clearly you explain everything. No kidding, Bob. Most books like this are not only dry and boring, but also very tiring and difficult to understand. I find myself blazing through, page by page, and understanding exactly what you're delivering. This is great!

Alan

Wow. Thanks so much for the kind words.

I'm glad you're finding it useful.

If you still like it when you're a little further along, you might mention it in a review on Amazon.com.




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I will definitely do that, Bob. I've been digging in pretty heavily since I got your book and I'm finding the entire work *very* easy to ingest and understand ... and I believe that is something quite unusual.

I'll post here when I do, to let you know.

Hey, Bob.

I just published my review on your book. It's being checked out now and should be published soon. I guess you'll get an email when it is?

Here's a link to the review on Amazon:
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